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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two More Turkish Troops Killed in Syria
2016-09-22
[AnNahar] Two more Turkish troops were killed on Tuesday while during operations 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) jihadists in Syria as Ankara pressed an unprecedented military operation there, the Dogan news agency said.

It said the soldiers were maimed in an kaboom south of the Syrian town of Jarabulus while engaged in clean-up operations against IS.

They were taken over the border to hospital in the Turkish southeastern city of Gaziantep but shuffled off the mortal coil.

The latest deaths raised to 10 the number of Turkish soldiers killed since The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
began its operation to secure the Syrian border area on August 24, Dogan said.

Most of them have been killed by IS but one was also killed in an attack blamed on the People's Protection Units (YPG) Kurdish militia which is also targeted in the offensive.

Turkey sees the YPG as a terror group affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which is waging a bloody campaign against the Turkish state.

No plan to use Turkish infantry in Syria operations

[Ynet] Turkey has no plans to use Turkish infantry in its military operations in northern Syria targeting Islamic State and Kurdish fighters, Defence Minister Fikri Isik told news hounds on Wednesday.

He said that if any operation was launched to take control of the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab, further south from the current area of operations, this would be done with forces from the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
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