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Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES
Images released by the Turkish National Defence Department show injured victims of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria being evacuated from a Turkish air force plane at Ankara airport. IMAGES
Syrians flee the Syrian-Turkish border town of Ras al-Ain as smoke billows after Turkey launched an assault on Syrian Kurdish sites. IMAGES
Images show charred cars and a large crater caused by Israeli strike on the residential neighbourhood of Kafr Sousa in Syria's capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a Syrian pro-government fighter had been killed and six others injured in Israeli strikes targeting a building in Kafr Sousa and a military headquarters south of Damascus. IMAGES
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns a strike on an Iranian consular annex building in Syria one day earlier, Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari tells the Security Council, after the attack -- which Tehran has blamed on Israel -- killed at least 13 people. "Let me be very clear, the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and personnel must be respected in all cases in accordance with international law," Khiari says. SOUNDBITE
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