PROTECTING THE BORDER This picture taken from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on Wednesday shows pro-Ankara Syrian opposition fighters moving two kilometers west from the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus. Turkey’s army backed by international coalition air strikes launched an operation involving fighter jets and elite ground troops to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported that pro-Ankara Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels had already penetrated three kilometers (two miles) inside Syria towards the IS-held town of Jarabulus. The air and ground operation, the most ambitious launched by Turkey in the Syria conflict, is aimed at clearing jihadists from the town of Jarabulus, which lies directly opposite the Turkish town of Karkamis. AFP PHOTO
PROTECTING THE BORDER This picture taken from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on Wednesday shows pro-Ankara Syrian opposition fighters moving two kilometers west from the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus. Turkey’s army backed by international coalition air strikes launched an operation involving fighter jets and elite ground troops to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported that pro-Ankara Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels had already penetrated three kilometers (two miles) inside Syria towards the IS-held town of Jarabulus. The air and ground operation, the most ambitious launched by Turkey in the Syria conflict, is aimed at clearing jihadists from the town of Jarabulus, which lies directly opposite the Turkish town of Karkamis. AFP PHOTO

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s army backed by international coalition air strikes on Wednesday launched an operation involving fighter jets and elite ground troops to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town.

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