The Turkish army backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) began an attack on the ISIS-held village of Dabiq in northwestern Syria on Saturday, an opposition commander involved in the campaign and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
However, Turkish military sources said the operation to take Dabiq had started earlier this month and that while air and artillery strikes were targeting the village, there were no new developments on the ground on Saturday.
Dabiq is crucial for Daish as it believes that the town is sacred and a doomsday war will one day be fought there with "infidels." According to the FSA, ISIS fighters will be devastated once the town has been captured.
Daish has stationed around 1,200 of its terrorists there said the Observatory, a Britain-based war monitor.
Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield in cooperation with the FSA on Aug. 24 to clear its southern border of Daish terrorists and liberate northern Syrian towns from the terrorist group. In less than a day, the FSA, backed by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) liberated Jarablus and continued marching from the east and the west. (Reuters, Daily Sabah)
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