On September 6, three Turkish soldiers were killed and four others wounded in another IS attack on two tanks.
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Turkey would be ready to join any initiative proposed by the United States to capture an ISIS stronghold in Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Wednesday, as Turkish-backed forces took more Syrian land from jihadists.
Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters patrol in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. Ankara conducted airstrikes against IS inside Syria after that.
This Kurdish contingent has several hundred USA special operators embedded with them on the battlefield, and led one of the most successful US offensives against an ISIS held town on the Turkish border.
The Turkish government says US -based Fetullah Gulen organized the July 15 coup attempt, which left 240 people martyred and almost 2,200 injured.
He said there were 292 people in the first group of registered returnees, including women, children and the elderly.
Turkish Army soldiers walking by tanks near Turkish Syrian border of Karkamis.
Three Turkish soldiers have been killed and one wounded during clashes with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in northern Syria, according to Turkey’s armed forces.
“Obama wants to do some things together concerning Raqqa in particular”, Erdogan told reporters on his plane that arrived early on Tuesday, referring to ISIS’s de facto capital.
America’s top anti-Islamic State general is putting operations to retake ISIS’s capital city of Raqqa on hold because Turkey is wrangling with US -backed forces inside Syria.
Turkish forces and the Ankara-backed rebels are pressing on with the operation inside Syria, which is also targeting a Kurdish militia Ankara regards as a terror group.
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Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Turkish-Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy in Turkey since the 1980s.
