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The Syrian army’s Tiger Forces have retaken three more villages – Zuzurah, Jub al-Sultan, Jub al-Hamam – from the ISIS terrorist group in the province of Aleppo.
This push put government troops in about 5km from the area contolled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), predominantly Kurdish YPG units.
With such a minor distance between anti-Trukish Kurdish forces and the Syrian army, the Turkey-led coalition of militant groups known as the Free Syrian Army has almost no chances to advance in central Syria. Because if Turkish forces want to do this, they will be pushed to directly engage the Syrian army or US-backed Kurdish forces and will not have chances to use a pretext of the “war on ISIS”.
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