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SYRIA
Turkey-backed rebels close in on IS bastion
By Jordi Bou
November 15, 2016 - Turkish forces and allied Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters have begun an assault to drive Islamic State from the town of al-Bab in an operation that could foreshadow a push on the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa. The assault comes days after a U.S.-backed alliance of rebel forces, led by Kurdish YPG militia, recently launched its own offensive to retake Raqqa.