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itemprop="articleBody"> Local news reports said Turkish shells fell inside Syria on at least 10 occasions after midnight, landing near the border town of Tel Abyad, some six miles inside Syrian territory, across a historic fault line where modern Turkey abuts Arab lands that once formed part of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004184416/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/ottoman_empire/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about the Ottoman Empire." class="meta-classifier">Ottoman Empire</a>. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> State television said the shelling continued until dawn with four more barrages until the guns fell silent around 6:45 a.m. Activist groups in Syria said the shelling killed several Syrian government soldiers. </p><p itemprop="articleBody"> The exchanges sent tremors across a region fearful that the mounting violence in Syria would spill into neighboring countries. 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It also removed  the phrase that the episode constituted a serious “threat to international peace and security,” standard language which signaled that the council expected to stay involved. </p><p itemprop="articleBody">      Council diplomats continue to wrangle over the wording. </p><p itemprop="articleBody">      Russia and China both previously vetoed three Security Council resolutions addressing the Syria conflict and have urged Western powers to put more pressure on the anti-government forces to stop fighting. 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