Fresh Turkish Tanks Enter Syria In Front Against Daesh

MEP: Turkey on Saturday sent more tanks into the northern Syrian village of al-Rai to fight the Takfiri Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, opening a new front in a cross-border intervention aimed at sweeping its fighters from the area.

Turkey and Syrian forces are now continuing an offensive against ISIL in the area, with rebels capturing several other towns on Saturday close to the border with Turkey.

The tanks crossed into the village from the Turkish province of Kilis to provide military support to Syrian fighters as part of Turkey’s “Euphrates Shield”, state-run Anadolu news agency said.

The wider offensive against Islamic State along the Syria-Turkey border is being waged by Turkish-backed FSA factions and has been supported by Turkish tanks and warplanes.

The goal is to remove ISIL from its border and to halt the westward advance of the Kurdish People’s Protection Militia (YPG).

The so-called UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group that records daily developments in the war, confirmed that the fighters had taken several villages.