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ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey intensified its air and artillery strikes in northeast Syria on Friday in an offensive against Kurdish militia that has raised the prospect of a humanitarian disaster and questions about U.S. President Donald Trumps policy in the region.
The Kurds, who recaptured swathes of northeastern Syria from Islamic State with the backing of the United States, say the Turkish assault could allow the jihadist group to re-emerge as some of its followers were escaping from prisons.
In its first big attack since the assault began on Tuesday, Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly car bomb in Qamishli, the largest city in the Kurdish-held area, even as the city came under heavy Turkish shelling.
Five Islamic State fighters fled a jail there, and foreign women from the group being held in a camp torched tents and attacked guards with sticks and stones, the Kurds said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa/turkey-intensifies-syria-campaign-as-islamic-state-strikes-kurds-idUSKBN1WQ0O2
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Turkey intensifies Syria campaign as Islamic State strikes Kurds (Original Post)
Newest Reality
Oct 2019
OP
So is the big plan of Erdogan to have Turkey and ISIS annihilate the Kurds,
no_hypocrisy
Oct 2019
#3
empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Take that evangelicals, trump or Christian Kurds
empedocles
(15,751 posts)2. hint: Kurds not good at hush moneys
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)3. So is the big plan of Erdogan to have Turkey and ISIS annihilate the Kurds,
let ISIS take control of northern Syria, and then incorporate ISIS under Erdogan's new borders of Turkey?