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Turkish artillery on Feb. 13 bombarded People's Protection Units (YPG) targets in northern Syria, Turkish security sources has told private broadcaster CNNTürk.

The targets hit were near the town of Azaz in northern Syria, a Turkish government source told Reuters, without elaborating on the extent of the shelling or why it had been carried out. 

Turkish artillery on Feb. 13 bombarded People's Protection Units (YPG) targets in northern Syria, Turkish security sources has told private broadcaster CNNTürk.

The targets hit were near the town of Azaz in northern Syria, a Turkish government source told Reuters, without elaborating on the extent of the shelling or why it had been carried out. 

Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing violence in the war-torn country have amassed on the Turkish border, with more compatriots also expected to head toward the frontier.

A rocket fired from Syria on Jan. 23 slammed into the town of Kilis on the Turkish side of the border, wounding two people, reports said, quoting the local governorate.

The rocket hit a street causing an explosion that damaged nearby buildings and wounded an 18-year-old youth and a 14-year-old Syrian refugee girl, the semi-official Anadolu Agency said.

Russian warplanes bombed a civilian settlement in northwestern Syrian town of Azaz located just five km away from Syria-Turkey borders.

The attack has not yet officially confirmed, but British Observatory for human rights reported that five people are dead including one child.

Warplanes believed to be part of a U.S.-led alliance struck Nusra Front positions in northern Syria on July 31 following an attack by the al Qaeda-linked group on Western-backed rebels in the area, a group tracking the war said. 

The al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front has abducted 18 members of a U.S.-backed rebel group in northern Syria along with their leaders as they returned from a U.S.-led train-equip program in neighboring Turkey, Anadolu Agency has reported. 

The group of 54 fighters had started proceeding into Syria's interior on July 13 after their training program was completed.

Abid Podbicanin, Sead Plojovic, Tefik Mujovic and Izudin Crnovršanin, all from Novi Pazar, and Ferat Kasumovic, from Belgrade, are accused of recruiting men to fight for the Sunni terrorist organisation Islamic State, or Isis.

Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have taken control of a string of villages in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.