Turkey says Islamic State Cleared from Syrian Border Region

Turkey says Turkish-backed rebels battling Islamic State extremists on the Syrian border have driven IS fighters from their last remaining strongholds along a 100-kilometer stretch of borderland. Turkey's direct military involvement in the push against IS began late last month, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — responding to a civilian massacre in Turkey's southeast — sent warplanes, tanks and artillery to crush terror threats on the border. Sunday,...

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