Istanbul – Islamic State has seized new territory from Syrian rebels in northern Syria, advancing in an area where Turkey and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group tracking the war, said it had seized five villages including two near the Turkish border from other Syrian insurgents.
Islamic State announced it had captured three villages in the area and said its fighters had nearly encircled the rebel-held town of Marea, some 20 km (12 miles), south of the Turkish border.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Reuters on Monday that the two NATO allies would soon launch “comprehensive” air operations to flush Islamic State fighters from the border region.
The villages captured by Islamic State include two that the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front recently handed over to another Syrian rebel group.
Islamic State has escalated attacks against Syrian rebels in the northern Aleppo countryside since Turkey announced plans to drive the group from the area.
The Nusra Front, which is hostile to Islamic State, announced earlier this month that it would withdraw from the area where Turkey plans to establish a buffer zone.
Here is what they left out.
The kurds almost had it. But thanks to our cowardness and allowing ourselves to get wipped by Turkey we gave Turkey the green light to attack the kurds rather than Isis. The kurds who are the most pro USA group in the middle East are still labeled a terror organization by the USA. Its time to stop supporting Erdogen and his anti USA policies and support the kurds.
This story is obviously a fabrication by the vast far right wing conspirators. Our Clown in chief himself told us that ISIS is being degraded and destroyed.
Wasn’t the U.N. created to stop such wars? Where is the action of the ”free world” to fight these unstable muslims before the whole world is destroyed