目前尚不清楚土耳其开炮的目的，这是对早先阿卡卡尔镇5名平民遇害事件的回应，一名母亲和她的孩子也在炮弹来袭时丧生。过去一年间，总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安的政府一直强烈支持叙利亚反对派。但同时，埃尔多安并不希望土耳其直接与叙利亚开战，但边境5名平民遇害事件使得他重新审视该政策。北约称叙利亚的行为是对国际法的公然侵犯，并声称站在北约成员国土耳其的一边。

At least 31 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of huge bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Aleppo in an area controlled by government forces. A local reporter at the scene told the BBC that there were four car bombs, two of them exploded near a police officer's' club in a hotel tearing off its facade.

在叙利亚城市阿勒颇，被政府军控制的地区发生系列大规模爆炸，至少31人死亡，数十人受伤。一名当地记者在现场告诉BBC发生了四起汽车爆炸案，其中两起发生在一家旅馆里警官俱乐部附近，爆炸剥落了建筑物外墙。

Riot police in the Iranian capital Tehran have clashed with hundreds of people including many currency traders protesting against the government's failure to stop the value of the Iranian rial from plunging to record lows. Police dispersed a crowd of official money changers who gathered outside the central bank.