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ISIS shows stubbornness in al-Bab despite FSA advance

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State has showed stubbornness on Sunday despite the gains made by the Turkish special forces and Free Syrian Army in its last stronghold of al-Bab in northern Aleppo province. FSA took new ground from ISIS in the northern neighborhood but its defeat still not...

Erdogan: Turkey, FSA close to capturing Al-Bab

Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army fighters have "besieged" the Daesh-held town of Al-Bab in northern Syria and are now "on the verge of capturing it," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. "Our forces along with the Free Syrian Army [fighters] have reached the [town] center. And...

Erdogan says end goal of Turkish operation in Syria is Raqqa

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday the final goal of a Turkish incursion into Syria was not just to retake the city of al-Bab from Islamic State, but to cleanse a border region including Raqqa of the jihadists. Turkish-backed Syrian rebels are pressing a major offensive on al-Bab, 30 km...

Turkish soldier killed in Syria's Al-Bab

One Turkish soldier was killed and three others wounded in clashes Sunday with ISIS in Syria's Al-Bab region, local media reported, citing military sources. Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies on Saturday entered Al-Bab to drive ISIS militants from the flash-point northern town, the...