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| Turkish army kills militants in Syria, Iraq |
| 2017-01-28 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish jets have hit terrorist targets separately in Syria and Iraq as part of its policy of fighting against terrorism outside its borders. A total of 57 Lions of Islam from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in an air strike by Turkish warplanes in northern Iraq on Jan. 13 and 14, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) said in a statement on Jan. 27. It added that many Lions of Islam were also maimed in the air strikes. Turkish armed forces have been engaged in armed festivities with the PKK since the mid-1980s. Separately, 22 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) Lions of Islam were "neutralized" in northern Syria over the last 24 hours as part of the ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -backed Euphrates Shield operation, the Turkish military said on Jan. 27. Turkish authorities use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the Lions of Islam in question were either killed, captured or incapacitated. The Turkish Armed Forces also hit 272 ISIS targets including command and control facilities, defense points, shelters, vehicles and weapons used by ISIS Lions of Islam in northern Syria, a Turkish General Staff statement said on the 157th day of the operation. Turkish jets also hit 21 buildings used as shelters, two headquarters, one weapons depot and four bomb-laden vehicles. Some 73 handmade explosives were neutralized. Since the beginning of the operation, 3,282 handmade explosives and 55 mines were neutralized under controlled conditions. The Euphrates Shield operation began late August 2016 to tighten border security, eliminate the terror threat along Turkey’s southern borders and support opposition forces in Syria. Turkey backs the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... with artillery and jets as part of the operation. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... the Russian army said on Jan. 26 that Russian and Turkish warplanes carried out new air strikes in Syria on the same day, targeting positions of ISIS Lions of Islam in the town of al-Bab in the northern Syria. "On Jan. 26, the Russian and Turkish air forces conducted another joint air operation against the Islamic State group in the town of al-Bab," the army said in a statement, AFP reported. The operation involved Russia’s Su-24M bombers and Su-35S fighter planes along with Turkey’s F-16 and F-4 fighter jets, the army statement said. The Russian planes "destroyed three command and communication centers and several fortified positions," it added. Moscow and Ankara had already carried out air strikes against ISIS in al-Bab on Jan. 18 and 21, after signing an accord earlier this month to coordinate their air campaign against "terrorist targets" in Syria. In all, 58 ISIS targets had been destroyed in the joint air raids, the Russian army said. |
| Posted by:Fred |