Syrian rebels have gone on the offensive killing more than 100 soldiers in two days, as tension between Syria and Turkey escalated over cargo seized from a Syrian Air jet, Agence France Presse reported Friday, October 12. Fourteen soldiers died in an attack on an army post in the southern province of Daraa on Friday, a day after the army suffered 92 losses, the highest daily total for the military of the 19-month conflict. As fighting raged on the ground, a war of words between Syria and Turkey grew angrier after Ankara said it had found military supplies on a passenger plane it intercepted en route between Moscow and Damascus. The Syrian foreign ministry accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan of lying when he said the jet had been carrying “equipment and ammunition shipped to the Syrian defense ministry” from a Russian military supplier.