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Turkey crushes Syrian army after removing heavy armor with superior technology
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Turkish forces decimated the Syrian army in a series of drone, artillery and bomber attacks this weekend, leaving Russia, Syria's best ally, weigh how much she should step in to stop the offensive.
Turkey transformed its total air superiority – via a fleet of cheap drones and high-tech F-16s – into an operation that claimed at least two Syrian jet fighters, eight helicopters, 135 tanks and 77 other armored vehicles, with as many as 2,500 Syrian troops killed, according to the Turkish Ministry of Defense.
This left the Syrian army unable to protect its front line armored and artillery units, which were methodically targeted by cheap but very precise missiles.
And with Russia so far unwilling to directly confront the Turkish army, Bashar al-Assad's army could continue to suffer, paving the way for Turkey to achieve its goal of repelling forces of the Idlib diet.
The Turkish Defense Ministry tweeted images of the attacks:
Turkey's aggressive push into Idlib intensified late last week after an alleged Russian air strike killed at least 33 Turkish soldiers Thursday night, and Turkey and Syria pledged in a direct military confrontation.
Turkey has deployed at least 7,000 regular armed forces in the Syrian pocket of Idlib, held by the rebels, whose collapse after a month-long offensive by the regime threatened to send nearly a million Syrian refugees across the Turkish border.
Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the Syrian offensive in Idlib – which is supported by significant Russian air support – must stop to prevent hundreds of thousands of new refugees from joining more than 3 million Syrian refugees already in Turkey.
But when Syrian troops ignored these requests, Ankara approved a military operation that immediately began the orderly destruction of Syrian regime units in the region.
On Sunday, the Turkish Defense Ministry officially announced Operation "Spring Shield", a campaign to fight the Syrian advance in Idlib, although the attacks had already started a few days earlier.
On Monday, Russian air units were supporting Syrian military units attempting to retake the rebel Saraqeb's strategic crossroads, but they appeared to target only the Syrian rebels supported by Turkey, rather than the Turkish forces directly.
Control of Saraqeb could determine much of the end result for Idlib as it controls a crossroads that connects Damascus, the Syrian capital, to Aleppo, the country's largest city.
Turkey would only seek to secure the Idlib pocket to prevent a new influx of refugees fleeing the regime's advance.
Until now, it is unclear how far Moscow is ready to go to help its Syrian allies retake the entire country after a nearly ten-year civil war that killed half a million people and displaced nearly a third of the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Erdogan have scheduled a meeting Thursday in Moscow to discuss the situation.
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