Syria Civil War News

Syria Civil War News

Turkish troops and Syrian rebels have entered ISIL-held Al Bab, 

the group's last stronghold in northern Syria, at the same time as Syrian government forces are also approaching it, according to a monitor and Turkish-backed fighters.

Heavy clashes were under way with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group on Saturday in Al Bab, 40km south of the Turkish border, which has been besieged since Monday, when government forces advancing from the south cut off a road leading into the town, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

Raqqa offensive

Raqqa offensive

The Raqqa hostile (codenamed Operation Wrath of Euphrates), is a progressing military operation propelled by the Syrian Democratic Forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Raqqa Governorate, with the objective of secluding and in the long run catching the Islamic State's capital city, Ar-Raqqah. 

The hostile is simultaneous with the Turkish against ISIL Battle of al-Bab, the Iraqi Battle of Mosul in Iraq, and the Palmyra hostile propelled by ISIL 

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In late October 2016, the United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter required a hostile on Raqqa to happen simultaneous with the Battle of Mosul in Iraq. He expressed that the US was collaborating with its partners so as to dispatch a "confinement operation" around Raqqa. On 26 October, the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the President of the United States Barack Obama and expressed that he didn't need the People's Protection Units (YPG) to take part in the arranged operation, and rather wanted to include the Turkish Armed Forces. The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon rejected the possibility of non-Arab powers partaking in the hostile and requested an absolutely Arab force.