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This weekend's Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish fighters in northern Syria also threaten to stoke tensions with the Syrian government. Both Ankara and Damascus consider the Kurdish-led forces controlling north and east Syria their opponent. But Damascus is angered by Syrian soldiers also killed in the strikes and is concerned over a possible Turkish ground incursion into northern Syria. The increased tensions come as Russian efforts to broker a reconciliation between Turkey and Syria had just started to see some progress in recent months, with the reported help of Iran, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had expressed a willingness to eventually meet Syria's president.
This weekend's Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish fighters in northern Syria also threaten to stoke tensions with the Syrian government. Both Ankara and Damascus consider the Kurdish-led forces controlling north and east Syria their opponent. But Damascus is angered by Syrian soldiers also killed in the strikes and is concerned over a possible Turkish ground incursion into northern Syria. The increased tensions come as Russian efforts to broker a reconciliation between Turkey and Syria had just started to see some progress in recent months, with the reported help of Iran, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had expressed a willingness to eventually meet Syria's president.