Posted on 08/29/2016 1:54:02 PM PDT by Lorianne
Rebels backed by Turkey made major gains Sunday in northern Syria, expelling Kurdish-led forces from towns and villages as part of a determined campaign by Ankara to push the militants east of the Euphrates River.
At least 35 civilians were killed, according to activists. The dramatic escalation of Turkey's involvement in the Syrian civil war last week aimed to help the Syrian rebels drive the Islamic State group out of the border town of Jarablus. But it also is aimed at U.S.-allied Kurdish forces that have gained control in recent months of most of the territory along the Turkey-Syria border.
The fighting pits Turkey, a NATO ally, against a U.S.-backed proxy that is the most effective ground force battling IS militants in Syria in the 5-year-old civil war. It leaves Washington in the tough spot of having to choose between its two of its allied forces, and is likely to divert resources from the fight against IS.
A Turkish soldier was killed by a Kurdish rocket attack late Saturday, the first such fatality in Turkey's ground offensive dubbed Euphrates Shield that began Aug. 24.
Speaking at a rally in the border town of Gaziantep, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his military is committed to fighting terrorism in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey, he said, also is determined to "uproot" the Syrian Kurdish group, calling it a terrorist organization. But he didn't specify a goal for the fight against the Kurdish forces.
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Love the media propagand line here
Turkey backed Syrian Rebels are better known by another name and that name is ISIS
Cool. Now if we can just be assured that Mitt Romney’s Romneycare ‘go to guy’, Jonathan Gruber will vote Hillary, and McCain’s amnesty partner Feingold, along with GHWB’s tax plan advisor, and Christie Todd Whitman’s global warming ‘expert’, and Jeb’s education czar...etc etc....we’d be getting somewhere.
oops, wrong thread...
LOL.
5.56mm
WTF?
It was always about killing Kurds and we allowed it
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