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The Latest: Russia reports Turkish shelling of Syrian Kurds

Lt.-Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian Military General Staff, background center, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. A top military official says Russia has halted all airstrikes in areas of Syria where armed groups, including government forces, said they would abide by a cease-fire. The screen shows, at left, Lt.-Gen. Sergei Kuralenko at Hemeimeem airbase in Syria. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Lt.-Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian Military General Staff, background center, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. A top military official says Russia has halted all airstrikes in areas of Syria where armed groups, including government forces, said they would abide by a cease-fire. The screen shows, at left, Lt.-Gen. Sergei Kuralenko at Hemeimeem airbase in Syria. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Lt.-Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian Military General Staff, background center, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. A top military official says Russia has halted all airstrikes in areas of Syria where armed groups, including government forces, said they would abide by a cease-fire. The screen shows, at left, Lt.-Gen. Sergei Kuralenko at Hemeimeem airbase in Syria. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

BEIRUT (AP) – The Latest on the conflict in Syria as a fragile cease-fire enters its second day (all times local):

4 p.m.

The Russian military operating in Syria says it has information about an artillery attack on the Syrian border town of Tell Abyad from Turkish territory.

A cease-fire brokered by Moscow and Washington went into effect early Saturday morning. Russia has set up a center for monitoring the truce at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria, where Russian warplanes are based. Russian news agencies on Sunday quoted the head of the center, Lt. Gen Sergei Kuralenko, as saying that his office has turned to the corresponding U.S. center in Amman for an explanation, since Turkey is a member of the U.S.-led coalition,

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