regime, and turkey carried out missile attacks on targets in syria's central, northwestern towns of zaraell as an attack where the russians have a strong foothold. erdogan's communications director said that they are hitting with land and backed up by air all known regime targets and they will continue their operations in syria which is setting the scene, yasmin, for a full scale confrontation between turkey and syria, especially since assad seems intent on taking back control of the area and he's being backed by the russians. >> ali, let me get your thoughts really quickly on nato's role in all of this. some have said turkey has put themselves in a box because they have gone inside syria, they're going against the ate sad regime as well as russia but they have done so without the necessary approval from nato, so now that turkey comes under attack, is there any chance, are we likely to see some kind of nato response that kind of pretty much says an attack on one nato member is an attack on all? >> well, hi, ayman, yes, nato certainly has that responsibility. it's an all for one organizat