Turkey deploys additional troops along its border with Syria


Turkey is deploying additional troops along the border with Syria as fighting between opposition and regime forces in Aleppo has intensified.Syrian opposition rebels launched a wide-scale attack on regime strongholds late Thursday in the northern province of Aleppo, killing and wounding some 80 people, a monitoring group said.On Thursday, Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said that he will not plunge the country into an "adventure" in Syria unless there is a direct threat to the country's national security. He noted that the direct threat would be imposed by the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Assad forces or the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and underscored Turkey's readiness for any development in Syria such as an attack to its soils or a refugee inflow due to ongoing clashes.Turkey regulated the rules of engagement regarding Syria accordingly for a cross-border operation against ISIS to give Turkish troops a freer hand to fire into Syria, which disintegrated after the outbreak of civil war in 2011