Turkey Dispatches 300 more Commandos to Syria

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Turkey is sending hundreds of commandos to reinforce its military interventionist campaign inside Syria, where the Turkish army suffered increasing casualties in its fight to capture a key town from Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] terrorists, reports said Friday.

A total of 300 commandos from a base in the western Turkish province of Denizli were first taken in buses to a military airport and then to the border region in military planes to join the Turkish-led operation, Turkish newspapers and the Anadolu news agency reported.

Ankara in August launched an intervention campaign dubbed Euphrates Shield to back up Syrian militants allegedly seeking to oust terrorists from the border zone.

Meanwhile, it was reported that the Syrian towns of Jarabulus, Al Rai and Dabiq were retaken from Daesh terrorists in lightning moves in the early weeks of the operation.

Turkey's army has already since summer 2015 been waging an offensive against Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK] militants in the southeast that has killed hundreds of members of the security forces.

Most of the attacks in the Syria campaign have been blamed on Daesh Takfiris.

Hundreds of Turkish troops, tanks and artillery are involved in the offensive but Ankara has not given precise numbers over the size of the contingent.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team