Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five were wounded in the battle near the village of al-Waqf
The Turkish army reported the first losses in the fighting with a banned terrorist organization “Islamic state” (IG), reports Reuters.
According to Ankara, two Turkish soldiers were killed and five were wounded in the battle near the village of al-Waqf in the North of Syria. Militants using rockets destroyed two tanks of the Turkish army, supported the offensive of the troops of the Free Syrian army (FSA) on the IG position to the West of the Euphrates. The infantry, consisting of Syrians, also suffered losses: two people were killed and two were injured. The result of the battle of the SSA and the Turks managed to capture two villages.
On the morning of 5 September, the Turkish media reported the release of the border with Syria from the militants.
From 24 August, Turkish armed forces carried out in the North of Syria “operation Shield of the Euphrates. Turkish troops and rebels from Ankara supported the Syrian free army took control of the major border town of Jerablus.
The goal of surgery is to release the North of Syria from Islamists, as well as the displacement of the territory by the armed forces of the Syrian Kurds, which Ankara considered part of the Kurdistan workers party, leading a guerrilla war against Turkish security forces.
