Syria, Turkey exchange more cross-border fire

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By The Associated PressAnother mortar shell from Syria struck Turkish territory on Saturday, prompting a fourth day of retaliatory artillery fire from Turkey, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld The mortar landed in a rural area near the village of Guvecci, during intense fighting between the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and the rebels in Syria's Idlib province across the border.

No one was hurt by the mortar, but Turkish troops near Guvecci immediately responded with "counter-fire," the agency said.

Mourning, sighs of relief in Turkish town shelled by SyriaNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from the border between Turkey and Syria where small farming communities take the brunt of spillover violence, making life unbearable. 

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