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Turkish military seizes control of Jinderes town in Syria's Afrin region: Anadolu
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian rebel allies seized control of the town of Jinderes on Thursday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, giving them control of one of the largest settlements in Syria's northwest Afrin region.

The Ottoman Turkish army and its allies from Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
 (FSA) factions pushed fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG out of the town centre on Thursday following intense festivities, it said, adding that operations to secure the area were continuing.

Air raids on the Jinderes town centre had intensified after Ottoman Turkish forces and the FSA captured the hill overlooking it a day earlier, Anadolu said.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
 and its allies have so far seized five of the seven urban centers in the Afrin region, it said.

Turkey launched its air and ground assault on Afrin, dubbed Operation Olive Branch, in January to drive out the YPG, which it sees as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has waged an insurgency on Ottoman Turkish soil since 1984. The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
Turkey's foreign minister said on Thursday the operation will be completed by May.

On Tuesday, Kurdish-allied Syrian Arab militias said they are redeploying 1,700 fighters from fronts against 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (IS) bandidos bully boyz to the Afrin region to help fend off the Ottoman Turkish offensive.

The United States, which has infuriated Turkey with its support for the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said Turkey's offensive on Afrin has diverted attention from the fight against IS.
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