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IS conflict: Turkish soldiers killed in Syria attack - Published Three Turkish soldiers have been killed and 10 wounded in an attack in Syria, but reports differ about what happened. Turkey's military said the soldiers had been targeted in a Syrian government air strike on Thursday, during an offensive by Turkish-backed rebels against so-called Islamic State. However, a Syrian monitoring group said the deaths were caused by a suicide bomb attack on Wednesday claimed by IS. Meanwhile a member of the US military has died while fighting against IS. The soldier, who has not been named, died from wounds caused by an improvised explosive device in Ayn Issa, north of the IS stronghold Raqqa. Officials gave no other information. It is not clear whether this was linked to the deaths of the Turkish soldiers. Syria's military has not yet commented on the fate of the Turkish soldiers. It would be the first time Turkish soldiers have been killed by Syrian government forces in the offensive, which Damascus has denounced as a "flagrant violation of Syrian sovereignty". Dubbed Operation Euphrates Shield, the offensive was launched three months ago with the aim of pushing IS militants away from the Turkish border. The Turkish government also wants to contain US-backed Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia, which it says is an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey. So far, the rebels have driven IS militants out of more than 1,800 sq km (694 sq miles) of territory, according to the Turkish military, and recaptured the key border town of Jarablus and the symbolically important village of Dabiq. They are now besieging the town of al-Bab, the last IS stronghold in Aleppo province. The Turkish military statement said the soldiers who were killed were deployed in northern Syria when they were targeted at about 03:30 (00:30 GMT) in an air strike that it "assessed to have been carried out by Syrian regime forces". It did not give an exact location, but the state-run Anadolu news agency reported that it was close to al-Bab. The dead and injured soldiers, one of whom was said to be in a critical condition, were taken to hospitals in the southern Turkish provinces of Kilis and Gaziantep. Later on Thursday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights disputed the Turkish military's account, saying the soldiers had been killed an IS suicide bombing on Wednesday near the village of Waqqah, north-west of al-Bab. IS also issued a statement saying it had carried out a suicide bombing on a Turkish army position near Waqqah on Wednesday evening that caused an unspecified number of casualties. Its self-styled news agency, Amaq, released video footage of the attack showing an explosives-filled armoured vehicle driving towards the frontline and then exploding. The three deaths mean that at least 15 Turkish soldiers have been killed since Operation Euphrates Shield began, according to AFP news agency. Most died in clashes with IS, but one was killed in an attack blamed on the YPG.
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'कैयौँ गाउँहरु टर्कीको नियन्त्रणमा' टर्कीबाट प्राप्त विवरणहरुमा भनिएको छ - कुर्द लडाकुहरुलाई धपाउन टर्कीले थालेको सैन्य कारवाहीको तेस्रो दिनमा उसले उत्तर सिरियामा रहेका कैयौँ गाउँहरु नियन्त्रणमा लिएको छ। तर कुर्द लडाकुहरुले पछि दुई वटा गाउँहरु आफूहरुले पुनः नियन्त्रणमा लिएको बताएका छन्। सोमबार अफ्रिन क्षेत्रमा रहेका शंकाल, कोर्ने, बाली र अदाह मान्ली गाउँहरु तथा किता, कोर्दो र बिब्नोसहितका गाम्रीण भेगहरु टर्कीको सैन्यले आफ्नो कब्जामा लिएको टर्कीको राज्य-संचालित अनादोलु समाचार संस्थाले जनाएको छ। तर ब्रिटेनस्थित पर्यवेक्षण संस्था सिरियन अब्जरभेटरी फर ह्युमन राइट्सले भनेको छ केही समयसम्म दुई पक्षबीच चलेको भीषण लडाईँका क्रममा वाईपीजीले ती दुई गाउँहरुबाट टर्कीको सैन्यलाई फिर्ता जान बाध्य पारेको थियो। प्रतिकार टर्कीका सीमावर्ती क्षेत्रहरुमा टर्कीको स्थल सैन्यलाई रकेट हमला गरेर प्रतिकार गरेको वाईपीजीले बताएको छ। अफ्रिन क्षेत्रमा रहेको कुर्द लडाकू समूह वाईपीजीलाई निशानामा पारिरहेको टर्कीले उक्त समूहलाई आतंकवादी समूह भन्दछ। उत्तर-पूर्वी सिरियाको धेरैजसो भागहरु नियन्त्रणमा लिएको उक्त समूह-वाईपीजी, टर्कीमा दशकौँदेखि स्वायत्ताका लागि विद्रोह गरिरहेको कुर्दिस्तान वर्कश पार्टी-पीकेके समूहको बिस्तारित रुप भएको टर्कीले ठान्दछ। तर सिरियामा ईस्लामिक स्टेट जिहादीहरु विरुद्ध लडिरहेको वाईपीजीले पीकेके समूहसँग उसको कुनै पनि खाले प्रत्यक्ष सम्बन्ध भएको अस्वीकार गर्दै आएको छ। संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिकाले वाईपीजीलाई समर्थन गरेको भन्दै अंकाराले निन्दा गर्दै आएको छ। सिरियाली द्वन्द्वमा विकसित पछिल्लो घटनाक्रमले उसको नेटो साझेदार अमेरिकासँग टर्कीलाई टकरावको स्थितिमा पुर्याएको छ। सिरियाली सरकार तथा उसका साझेदारहरु ईरान र ईजिप्टले टर्कीले गरेका हमलाहरुको भत्सर्ना गरेका छन्। यसबारे संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघीय सुरक्षा परिषद्को आपतकालीन बैठक बस्दै छ।