Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said an American drone aircraft carried out the first strike on Monday from Incirlik, a major air base near the southern city of Adana. He did not give any specific details about the target.
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About 30 militants were killed in the attack, which U.S airpower helped repel.
Turkey and the U. It makes the Obama Administration look foolish, a risky ally that is not serious about accomplishing vital objectives, or supporting those who fight under its banner.
Since last week, reports from inside Syria have been claiming that al-Nusra has captured at least five fighters trained by the US and coalition forces.
“We can really intensify our support for those anti-ISIL groups that are fighting in northern Syria“, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, using another name for Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS.
Turkey’s foreign minister says U.S. drones and aircraft have begun arriving at a Turkish air base close to the border with Syria, and an “effective” fight against Islamic State militants will soon begin.
Ankara is waging a two-pronged bombing campaign against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels as well as IS fighters, following a wave of violence inside Turkey.
Urfa, Turkey – Turkish Foreign Ministry revealed on Wednesday that Turkish fighter jets are prepared to join a U.S.-led “intensive military campaign” against Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) in the coming days.
Officials have described the plan as an effort to create an “Islamic State-free zone” stretching about 100 kilometers in length in northern Syria. The drones being used in airstrikes had been at the base for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights but had been unarmed before the July agreement.
White said the recent capture would likely hurt recruiting initially, but if the U.S.-backed forces begin to have successes, that would change.
“Iran and Russia’s contributions must be sought for a political solution in Syria”, he said. The American-led coalition that has been assembled to fight Isis bombed Nusra positions in Syria in apparent retaliation.
The United States said on Tuesday it had indications that Syrian rebels trained by the U.S. military were captured by fighters from al Qaeda’s Syria wing, Nusra Front, in the latest blow to a fledgling program at the center of America’s war strategy.
This stealth was castigated by Council of Foreign Relations analyst Micah Zenko, in an August. 3 blog posting shortly after the news first broke that Obama had decided to authorize air strikes to defend the U.S.-trained rebels from any and all attackers including, should that situation arise, Assad’s forces.
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But instead of Islamic State, the New Syrian Forces appear to be consumed with a battle against Nusra Front.
