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U.S. F-16s fly first raids against Islamic State from Turkey


An F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. (Krystal Ardrey | U.S. Air Force via The Associated Press)

By James Rosen
Tribune News Service
© August 13, 2015

Piloted American warplanes launched airstrikes from Turkey against Islamic State fighters in Syria on Wednesday, the first American-manned bombing raids against the group from the only Islamic member of NATO.

Four F-16s left Incirlik Air Base and bombed Islamic State targets across the border in Syria, Pentagon and Turkish sources said.

"Today, the United States began flying manned counter-ISIL missions from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey," the Pentagon said in a statement, using its preferred acronym for the Islamic State group. "Strikes were conducted."

Navy Cmdr. Elissa Smith, a Pentagon spokeswoman, later confirmed that the planes had struck targets in Syria "and the planes returned safely."

It was unknown whether the aircraft were responding to information passed to U.S. commanders by the Kurdish militia with which the U.S. has worked closely in Syria. Turkish officials have been critical of the U.S. cooperation with the People's Protection Units, or YPG, which they accuse of being linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, which has fought a 30-year insurrection against the Turkish government.

Turkey agreed to allow U.S. planes to fly from its bases and to launch airstrikes of its own against the Islamic State under a deal reached last month after the Islamic State was blamed for the bombing in the Turkish city of Suruc that killed at least 32.

Turkey bombed Islamic State fighters in Syria for the first time July 24, but since then it has conducted waves of strikes against the PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The United States has criticized Turkey in recent days for bombing PKK fighters at northern Iraq sites close to where U.S. elite forces are training Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers.

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