Military security

Radio station Sham FM clarifies that 12 missiles were shot down.

Earlier, Ankara opened the border with the European Union against the background of the aggravation in the Syrian governorate of Idlib.

The National Front for Liberation, supported by Turkey, suffered heavy losses.

President of Syria called the Turks a fraternal people and stated that it was not clear what for they would die in a foreign country.

Colonel Sonny Leggett accused Taliban of attacking the Afghan Armed Forces’ checkpoints.

The militants of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham tried to use poisonous chemicals to disrupt the advance of the Syrian government army, but they themselves were poisoned.

According to Oleg Zhuravlev, there are Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis and citizens of African countries among them.

This was declared by US Special Representative for Syria Engagement and the Special Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIL, James Jeffrey.

The politicians expressed hope that the meeting of Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow scheduled for March 5 would be successful.

Later, Syrian state television informed that the army shot down a Turkish drone near the city of Saraqib.