turkey or one considers the kurdish piqué party to be terrorists and armed confrontation could potentially see two nato members clash something unheard of until today. syrian government forces fired on rebel fighters in and that this some verified footage was posted online by the syrian government the syrian observatory for human rights say the army has captured dozens of villages in the past three days and is closing in on rebel forces for the new rules turkey has threatened to attack the kurdish held a town with a free monitoring group say shelling has already begun ankara had been hoping for washington support instead a fresh complete does brewing between the countries the u.s. led coalition says it is setting up a thirty thousand strong security force to inhibit the activities of the so-called islamic state and on the borders with turkey and iraq these areas are controlled by