Turkey and Syria Exchange Fire....Again

It started off as Syria making a 'mistake' and lobbing a mortar shell into Turkey.  But now, after it has happened for 6 days in a row...it may be getting much harder to make that claim and still have the Turks believe it.

CAIRO AND WASHINGTON — Turkey launched a new retaliatory strike Monday after a mortar bomb fired from Syria hit the Turkish countryside as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned of "extremely dangerous" fallout from the escalating border conflict.

Ban also said he is "deeply concerned" about the continuing flow of weapons to the Syrian government and opposition forces and the impact of the Syrian crisis on neighboring Lebanon. He reiterated calls for a political solution, which he said is the "only way" to resolve the crisis that began in March of last year.

The Turkish strike against Syrian positions for the sixth straight day came after a shell landed in a Turkish border area in southern Hatay province. The latest mortar round from Syria landed 150 meters within Turkey's border in the district of Hacipasa, according to Turkish officials.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Monday that "worst-case scenarios" were taking place in Syria and urged the international community to act.

As tensions simmered between the two neighbors, Syrian Information Minister Omran Zahbi said that Damascus is not responsible for security along the border.

Zahbi said Turkey and not Syria is responsible for keeping the peace along the border, because Ankara has allowed rebel fighters to set up bases and infiltrate into Syria in large numbers.

Here;  http://www.voanews.com/content/turkey_again_returns_fire_after_syrian_mortar_attack/1522555.html

We have no idea if Syria is trying to provoke Syria or if these mortars are simply falling into Turkey because mortar-fire isn't very accurate.

What we do know is that Damascus was mentioned in the article and it still needs to be destroyed according do Isaiah 17...and to be so utterly destroyed that it will be uninhabitable. (Nukes?  Chemicals?)

Just more evidence of 'nation against nation' that Jesus told us to watch for.

The Middle East is simmering in all sorts of places.  It's just a matter of time before it boils over and burns lots of people in the process.