Tensions continue along the Turkish border with Syria.<br/> <br />On Friday Turkey scrambled two fighter planes along the border after a Turkish town was bombed by a Syrian military helicopter.<br/> <br />There has been intense fighting between rebels and Syrian government forces in Syrian towns near Turkey -- an area strongly opposed to<br/> <br />President Bashar al-Assad's rule.<br/> <br />Fighting along Turkey's 560-mile border with Syria has repeatedly spilled over into Turkish territory in the past week,. The Turkish army has responded in kind to gunfire and mortar shells fired from Syria.
