Latest Breaking News

Bosonic

(3,746 posts) Fri Jul 24, 2015, 06:17 AM Jul 2015

Turkish warplanes bomb IS targets in Syria

Source: AFP

Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish fighter jets early Friday bombed positions of Islamic State jihadists inside Syria for the first time, in a dramatic escalation of fighting after the killing of a Turkish soldier in cross-border clashes.

Three Turkish F-16s took off from the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir for an early morning bombing raid against three IS targets, dropping four guided bombs, a statement from the prime minister's office said.

The operation came after the first major cross-border clashes between Turkey and IS jihadists on Thursday left one Turkish soldier and one militant dead, thrusting Turkey into an open conflict with the Islamists.

The bombing raid was the first by the Turkish air force on IS since the Islamists began their advance across Iraq and Syria in 2013, seizing control of swathes of territory right up to the Turkish border.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-bombs-positions-syria-turkish-pm-044041048.html

2 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Turkish warplanes bomb IS targets in Syria (Original Post) Bosonic Jul 2015 OP

Partial no-fly zone included in US-Turkey consensus Bosonic Jul 2015 #1

Who is a no-fly zone aimed at? Not ISIS. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2015 #2

Bosonic

(3,746 posts)

1. Partial no-fly zone included in US-Turkey consensus

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Fri Jul 24, 2015, 06:48 AM

Jul 2015

Partial no-fly zone included in US-Turkey consensus

A recent joint action consensus between Turkey and the United States, which includes the use of the İncirlik Airbase in southern Turkey in fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists, also covers a partial no-fly zone over the Turkey-Syria border, according to sources.

The 90-kilometer line between Syria’s Mare and Cerablus will be 40 to 50 kilometers deep, sources told daily Hürriyet, while elaborating on the consensus outlined by Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç, following a cabinet meeting on July 22.

However, sources avoided saying whether such a zone would be broadened in the future.

This security line will prevent radical groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front from gaining the mentioned land.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nID=85850&NewsCatID=510

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

2. Who is a no-fly zone aimed at? Not ISIS.

Reply to Bosonic (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 24, 2015, 12:37 PM

Jul 2015

Are Turkey and Syria saying they now have the right to attack Syrian military flights in Syrian territory?

That's the first step to a much deeper involvement in Syria's civil war. Obama was smart to stay out of it a couple of years ago.

Reply to this discussion