...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and the United States will soon launch "comprehensive" air operations to flush Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters from a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Rooters on Monday.
Detailed talks between Washington and Ankara on the plans were completed on Sunday.
"The technical talks have been concluded, yesterday, and soon we will start this operation, comprehensive operations, against Daesh (ISIS)," he said.
The United States and Turkey plan to provide air cover for what Washington judges to be moderate Syrian rebels as part of the operations, which aim to flush ISIS from a rectangle of border territory roughly 80 kilometers long, officials familiar with the plans have said.
Diplomats say cutting ISIS's access to the Turkish border, across which it has been able to bring imported muscle and supplies, could be a game-changer. U.S. jets have already begun air strikes from Turkish bases in advance of the campaign.
Cavusoglu said the operations would also send a message to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
and help put pressure on his administration to come to the negotiating table and seek a political solution for Syria's wider war.