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Witnesses say at least 20 people, mostly Syrian rebel fighters, were killed after a car bomb exploded in northern Syria near a checkpoint on the Turkish-Syrian border. As Mana Rabiee reports, no group has yet claimed responsibility..
At the Cilvegozu border crossing between Syria and Turkey, queues of Syrians fleeing the earthquake area pile up behind the checkpoint more than 10 days after the disaster. The February 6 earthquake claimed the lives of more than 38,000 people in southeastern Turkey and nearly 3,700 in neighbouring Syria. IMAGES
Greek nationalists bring large Greek flag to border post with Turkey in Kastanies, shouting 'politicians, traitors, bastards'. A massive influx of migrants swelled along the border over the weekend after Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to open its frontier to Europe as tensions mount over its deepening conflict in Syria. IMAGES
The UN's Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Otto Pedersen, says that the United Nations has received assurances aid will reach the earthquake-devastated areas of northwestern Syria through the sole authorised crossing from Turkey "today". SOUNDBITE
Turkey is more determined than ever to secure its border with Syria and prevent attacks by Kurdish forces, says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who claims his country's "operations with plans, cannons and drones are only the beginning." SOUNDBITE
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