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Roadside bomb hits Russian-Turkish patrol on key Syrian highway

The Russian military said Tuesday that three Russian troops and an unspecified number of Turkish soldiers were injured in the attack.

An aerial picture shows Syrians gathering at the site of an improvised explosive device which hit a joint Turkish-Russian patrol on the strategic M4 highway, near the Syrian town of Ariha in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 14, 2020. - Three Russian and several Turkish soldiers were wounded in Syria's restive Idlib province when a joint military patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device, Russia's defence ministry said. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP) / The erroneous photographer's
An aerial picture shows Syrians gathering at the site of an improvised explosive device that hit a joint Turkish-Russian patrol on the strategic M4 highway, near the Syrian town of Ariha in rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 14, 2020. — OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images

Three Russian soldiers were injured after a roadside bomb exploded near their joint Turkish-Russian patrol in rebel-held northwest Syria, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. 

The incident took place in southern Idlib province, where Russian and Turkish troops have been carrying out patrols along the strategic M4 highway connecting Aleppo and Latakia provinces.

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