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U.S. halts military support for Turkey’s fight in al-Bab
[MILITARYTIMES] The U.S. military has halted support for Turkish ground troops pushing deeper into Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -held territory in Syria, highlighting the mounting tension between NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... allies over how to defeat the bully boy group. A front man for U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria said on Wednesday that no ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -Syria border, the town serves as an important transfer point for fighters and supplies bound for Raqqa, the Islamic State's self-proclaimed capital some 125 miles to the east. "We've not supported the advance to al Bab thus far ," Air Force Col. John Dorrian said. "This is a decision they've made to go into al Bab, but it's not one that the coalition has provided strikes in support of." Despite that, Dorrian said the Turkish advance appears to be going well. "They've not yet moved into al Bab and taken the city, but they are very, very close, encountering some pretty tough resistance," he noted. "They do expect to be able to power through that." Posted by: Fred 2016-11-17 |
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