ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey scrambled two F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria on Saturday after a Syrian Su-24 bomber came close to the border, the Turkish army said in a statement on Sunday.
The Syrian jet withdrew after coming within 1.2 nautical miles of the Turkish border, the statement said.
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