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Turkish tanks hurl into Syria, opening new line of attack
- Updated: September 3, 2016
Syrian civilians, with Turkish Army tanks in a background, travel by a Turkish limit as they are graphic from a encampment in Kilis province, Turkey, Sep 3, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
BEIRUT: Turkey and a insurgent allies non-stop a new line of dispute in northern Syria on Saturday, as Turkish tanks rolled opposite a limit and Syrian fighters swept in from a west to take villages hold by Islamic State.
The intrusion was launched by Turkey from Kilis range – an area frequently targeted by Islamic State rockets – and coincided with a apart pull by a Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, who seized several villages serve to a east.
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By ancillary a rebels, especially Arabs and Turkmen fighting underneath a lax ensign of a Free Syrian Army, Turkey is anticipating to expostulate out Islamic State militants and check a allege of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters.
The rebels final week took a limit city of Jarablus with Turkish support. The operation, called Euphrates Shield, is Ankara’s initial full-scale Syrian intrusion given a start of a five-year-old war.
On Saturday a tanks crossed a limit and entered a Syrian rebel-controlled city of al-Rai to support a new offensive, a insurgent orator and monitors said.
Al-Rai is about 55 km (34 miles) west of Jarablus, and partial of a 90-km mezzanine nearby a Turkish limit that Ankara says it is clearing of jihadists and safeguarding from Kurdish company expansion.
The rebels afterwards seized villages to a easterly and a south of al-Rai, according to one insurgent official.
“They took several villages, about 8 villages. At initial they took dual and withdrew from them, though afterwards reinforcements came and there was an advance,” Zakaria Malahifji of a Aleppo-based Fastaqim organisation told Reuters.
The Turkish-backed operation was putting vigour on Islamic State from both easterly and west of a widen of domain it controls along a limit between a towns.
“The operations are to work from al-Rai towards a villages that were expelled to a west of Jarablus,” Colonel Ahmed Osman of a Sultan Murad insurgent organisation told Reuters.
Eastern Push
The Hamza Brigade, also partial of a Free Syrian Army, pronounced it had taken control of Arab Ezza, a encampment about 30 km west of Jarablus and nearby where Turkish warplanes carried out atmosphere strikes on Friday.
FSA factions had also prisoner a villages of Fursan, Lilawa, Kino and Najma only south of Arab Ezza, according to a source in another insurgent group, a Failaq al-Sham.
The United States pronounced it strike Islamic State targets in a segment overnight, nonetheless it did not contend where.
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“U.S. army struck ISIL targets nearby Turkey’s limit in Syria final night around newly deployed HIMARS system,” Brett McGurk, a special presidential attach� for a bloc fighting Islamic State, pronounced on his Twitter account.
HIMARS refers to a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. Turkey has struggled to strengthen a area around Kilis from Islamic State rocket fire. Three rockets dismissed from northern Syria strike a segment on Saturday, Dogan news organisation reported, adding there were no casualties.
Turkey’s pro-government Daily Sabah journal pronounced Turkish atmosphere strikes in support of a rebels continued on Saturday.
Focus on Kursdish Militia
While Euphrates Shield primarily targeted Islamic State in Jarablus, many of a concentration given has been on checking a allege of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters, to a alarm of NATO fan Washington.
Turkey disagrees with a ally’s support for a Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, that it considers a belligerent group. The YPG has been among a many effective partners on a belligerent in a U.S.-led quarrel opposite IS.
Turkey is disturbed that advances by Syrian Kurdish fighters will embolden Kurdish militants in a southeast, where it has been fighting an rebellion for 3 decades led by a outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
In China, to attend a G20 assembly of universe leaders, President Tayyip Erdogan pronounced there should be no support for any belligerent classification – a anxiety to a United States’ subsidy of a Syrian Kurdish fighters.
“There is no good terrorist. All terrorists are bad. All organizations concerned in terrorism are cursed. This is how we see things and how we put adult a struggle,” he said, according to a twin of an talk with China’s CCTV expelled by Erdogan’s office.
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The United States has uttered concerns about Turkish strikes on Kurdish-aligned groups that Washington supports. Germany pronounced it did not wish to see a durability Turkish participation in an already tangled conflict.
Turkey has pronounced it has no skeleton to stay in Syria and simply aims to strengthen a limit from a belligerent organisation and a Kurdish YPG militia.
Turkish confidence army used rip gas and H2O cannon to sunder protesters along a limit on Friday. The demonstrators were protesting opposite Turkey building a petrify wall on a limit with Syria.