Turkey scrambled two fighter planes to the Syrian border after a Syrian helicopter bombed the border town of Azmarin. This as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday that 14 members from the Syrian regime died in an attack on a checkpoint in Daraa.
The observatory mentioned that the number of people killed has reached 248 by Thursday; 92 members from the regime forces, 81 civilians, 67 opposition fighters and 8 pro-regime gunmen.
In this context, the Observatory stated the city of Ma'arrat Al-Numan in Idlib was a goal for the Syrian warplanes that targeted two buildings in it.
Meanwhile, a Russian journal reported on Friday that the plane Turkey intercepted during its trip from Moscow to Damascus was carrying radar spare parts for anti-Syrian missiles systems. The newspaper also mentioned that the plane was carrying 12 boxes of radar spare parts used in anti-Syrian missiles systems, denying the accusations voiced by Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the shipment carried ammunition. Sources mentioned to the newspaper that the shipment did not require any special document because it is "doesn’t cause any danger to the crew or the plane." Meanwhile, the Turkish Syrian borders remain in a state of readiness with continued clashes and shelling between the Syrian army and armed opposition in surrounding villages. For its part the Turkish General Staff denied claims that foreign troops have been deployed along the borders according to the Middle East News Agency. International Positions: Russia said on Friday that there were "no weapons" aboard a Syrian civilian jet that was grounded by Turkish authorities on Wednesday and that the plane was carrying a legal shipment of radar equipment. "We have no secrets," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters. "There were, of course, no weapons on the plane and could not have been any. There was a cargo on the plane that a legal Russian supplier was sending in a legal way to a legal customer." Official sources and the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported that KSA’s King Abdullah Ben Abdel Aziz held talks in Jeddah with UN envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi. The two discussed the means to put an end to the violence in Syria.