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Sirijski pobunjenici uz potporu Turske preuzeli kontrolu nad središtem al-Baba

23. 02. 2017. 15:59

Autor: HINA

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Soon after he surrendered, an ISIS fighter is violently dragged by Libyan fighters affiliated with the government in Tripoli while they shout and threaten to lynch him on December 5, 2016. .Few minutes later he was found in the same place shot dead multiple times.

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Sirte, Libya, is one of the three self-proclaimed capitals of the so-called Islamic State, along with Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq. It was the first of the three to fall, with an offensive launched by the Libyan government in May 2016. It took seven months of fighting, 500 American airstrikes, the lives of 700 Libyan soldiers and more than 3,000 injured Libyan soldiers to finally declare the city free. EPA/ALESSIO ROMENZI/WORLD PRESS PHOTO HANDOUT ATTENTION EDITORS : EDITORIAL USE ONLY / NO SALES / NO ARCHIVE / NO CROPPING / NO MANIPULATING / USE ONLY FOR SINGLE PUBLICATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORLD PRESS PHOTO AND ITS ACTIVITIES HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES/NO ARCHIVES HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES/NO ARCHIVES

Sirijski pobunjenici koje podupire Turska preuzeli su kontrolu nad središtem grada al-Baba od Islamske države (IS), izvijestili su u četvrtak turski državni mediji i predstavnici pobunjenika.

Turska je u kolovozu pokrenula svoju operaciju u Siriji, nazvanu “Štit Eufrata”, kako bi otjerala IS sa svoje granice i zaustavila napredovanje sirijske kurdske milicije.

Uz potporu turskih zrakoplova, tenkova i specijalnih snaga, borci Slobodne sirijske vojske prvo su očistili tursku granicu od IS-a a onda su pokrenuli napad na al-Bab u prosincu.

Turska državna agencija Anadolija izvijestila je da su pobunjenici preuzeli kontrolu nad središtem al-Baba i da sada uklanjaju mine i eksplozivna sredstva koja su postavili džihadisti. Ukupno 1900 četvornih kilometara u sjevernoj Siriji sada je očišćeno od militantnih skupina, navodi agencija.

Jedan predstavnik pobunjenika je rekao da se još vode ulične borbe, ali da su osvojena sva strateška mjesta u gradu.