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Turkish, US air strikes kill more than 50 ISIL militants in Syria: Agency
2015-11-02
[Hurriyet] Air strikes by Turkish and U.S. aircraft in Syria on Oct. 31 killed more than 50 Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bully boyz and maimed around 30, state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) quoted security sources as saying on Nov. 1.

A senior government official told Rooters on Oct. 31 that Turkish jets had bombed ISIL targets in Syria, as before Turks prepared to vote in the Nov. 1 parliamentary election.

Six Turkish F-16 jets which took off from the Incirlik base in southern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
had been involved in the air strikes between 0900-1400 GMT on Oct. 31, as well as a drone belonging to the coalition, AA said.

It said the operation destroyed eight ISIL targets around 5 km inside the Syrian border near the Turkish province of Kilis. The operation was backed up by Turkmen forces on the ground in Syria, it added.
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