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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Coalition airstrikes neutralize 48 Daesh terrorists
2016-05-08
[AA.TR] The Turkish Armed Forces said 48 members of the ISIS terrorist organization were neutralized in Arclight airstrikes in Syria by the international coalition Saturday morning.

F-16 and A-10 coalition warplanes killed 44 ISIS members and injured numerous others in areas including Harjalah, Hawar Kilis, Delha, and Baragitah at 5.47 a.m. (0247GMT), 6.13 a.m., and 7.41 a.m. local time Saturday morning, the Turkish Armed Forces said on the same day.

In separate Arclight airstrikes in the Karakopru region by F-15 warplanes on Saturday, four ISIS members died at 11.45 local time, raising the total corpse count to 48. Gun emplacements and accommodation areas belonging to ISIS were also destroyed.

According to information from national security sources speaking anonymously due to restrictions on talking with the media, the coalition Arclight airstrikes were in response to increasing ISIS attacks against Syrian opposition forces in the northern part of the war-torn country. The coalition Arclight airstrikes forced ISIS to retreat in the region, officials said.

Saturday’s Arclight airstrikes came the same week as Turkish artillery shelled targets in Syria in retaliation for ISIS cross-border rocket attacks on the southeastern city of Kilis.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 has been under indiscriminate rocket attacks from neighboring Syria since mid-January. In the Kilis province alone, the local governor has confirmed that a total of 20 people have been killed and almost 70 others maimed by rockets which have fallen inside Turkish territory.
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