The Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army units have also been fighting USA -backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
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Turkey disagrees with its ally’s support for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which it considers a terrorist group.
During the meeting, Erdogan pointed out that the Free Syrian Army units will be deployed to the territory of the liberated Syrian city, Trend reports.
Just over a week ago, Turkey began two incursions into Syria to push IS away from the border.
Sources also revealed that the Free Syrian Army, comprised predominantly of Syrian Arabs and Turkmen fighters, besides taking control of a number of new villages, also reached 24 kilometers south of the Turkish border and are now present in the Sucu Cayi region, west of the Euphrates River.
It lies on the western edge of a corridor of ISIS-held territory along the Syrian-Turkish border.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS “has lost its link with the outside world after losing all border areas” with Turkey.
“We are there to protect our border, to provide for our citizens safety of life and property, and to ensure Syria’s integrity”, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said in a speech on Sunday, discussing the incursion, which Ankara calls Euphrates Shield.
Meanwhile, the recapture and return to siege of rebel-held parts of Aleppo dealt a major blow to rebels. In fact, just a few days ago, following comments by a USA military spokesman who had expressed hopes that rather than see Turkey pursue Kurdish fighters, “all parties involved are going to stop shooting at each other and focus” on IS, Ankara contacted the U.S. ambassador over comments the foreign ministry called “unacceptable”.
Daesh terrorists attacked two Turkish tanks late Tuesday, leaving three soldiers dead and four others wounded in the south of Al-Rai, Northern Syria.
The ceasefire would be overseen through Russian-U.S. intelligence sharing and military cooperation, which would focus on fighting Islamic State and other militant groups such as al Qaeda.
But the group still holds territory in Syria and Iraq.
On Sunday, Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels expelled IS from the last part of the Syrian-Turkish border under their control.
The militants of Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) are leaving Syria’s Manbij city, said Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
While Turkey is a member of the US-led anti-ISIL coalition, the country has been accused of not taking the ISIL threat seriously and fighters crossed into ISIL territory easily from Turkish border towns.
But the hopes evaporated later in the day, with a State Department official saying Russian Federation had “walked back on some of the areas we thought we were agreed on”.
“Turkey has had this aim since the beginning”, he said in a Friday interview in Istanbul.
YPG fighters and its allies, with USA backing, have seized chunks of territory from the jihadists.
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A string of bombings, including a suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group, struck in and around several Syrian cities on Monday, killing at least 43 people, mainly in government-controlled areas.
