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  • 2019-05-09 (xsd:date)
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  • while it has been involved in Syria more directly and with larger forces than the U.S. and its allies (en)
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  • On May 6, while speaking at the North Atlantic Mediterranean Council, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed his country was the only NATO member to fight the Islamic State group (IS, also known by its Arabic acronym, Daesh) on the ground in Syria. While Turkey has engaged in ground operations in Syria against IS and plays an important role in maintaining one of the last opposition enclaves in Idlib, Erodgan’s comments were misleading.Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve is the Combined Joint Task Force established by the U.S. Department of Defense to counter IS in Iraq and Syria. It includes the U.S. and a number of other NATO (including Turkey) and non-NATO member states. U.S. Special Forces and Marines have been engaged on the ground in combat against IS. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Syria this past January during a patrol near Manbij.Local forces supported by the U.S. and Turkey, among other countries, have done most of the ground fighting in Syria. The U.S. has backed the Syrian Democratic Forces, led by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), an organization Turkey adamantly opposes as an offshoot of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey and other countries consider a terrorist organization. The SDF retook the former IS capital" city of Raqqa in eastern Syria (en)
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