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Key Syrian rebel factions meet in Ankara to discuss ceasefire
2016-12-26
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Key Syrian rebel factions held talks in Ankara Saturday, seeking merger in one armed body and a planned ceasefire that will be able to face the new challenges resulted after Aleppo collapse, well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl.

The ongoing discussions under the Turkish umbrella have included the moderate rebel groups as the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
-backed Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
The Istanbul-based Syrian National Coalition and the Riyadh-based High Negotiations Committee were not invited to the meeting.

Sources say Turkey to urge rebels to have their own road-map and to get rid of fractions and discords. Turkey seeks one armed opposition body without Fateh al-Sham
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant...
, formerly known as Nusra Front, and an immediate ceasefire, over a deal reached with Moscow and Tehran early this week.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday will not allow a new (Kurdish) state in northern Syria. Such a deter,mine will by Turkey reflected more support to Syrian rebels to be deployed in areas have been taken from Kurdish militias along the Turkish border.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
the Turkey-backed Syrian rebels have been besieging the ISIS-held town of al-Bab for weeks, while festivities between the gunnies and rebels have intensified in recent days.

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish warplanes killed 68 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....
murderous Moslems in northern Syria overnight, the Turkish military said on Saturday, as intense fighting around the town of al-Bab continued.

Rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to the Islamic State-held town for weeks under the "Euphrates Shield" operation launched by Turkey nearly four months ago to sweep the Sunni hardliners and Kurdish fighters from its Syrian border.

Fighting around al-Bab has escalated this week with Turkish soldiers and 138 jihadists killed in festivities on Wednesday in the deadliest day since the start of Turkey's Syrian incursion.
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