Syria strife: IS 'removed from typical town of Dabiq'

Turkish-sponsored rebels have caught the typically imperative Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State assemble, revolt administrators and screens say. 

Dabiq was under "full control" of Turkish-sponsored Syrian dissidents, Turkish Remote Clergyman Mevlut Cavusoglu said. 

The little northern town holds extraordinary esteem for IS a direct result of a prediction of a prophetically calamitous fight, and components vigorously in its publicity. 

The progress on Dabiq is a piece of a more extensive hostile by Syrian revolt bunches. 

Ahmed Osman, the leader of the Sultan Murad revolt bunch, told Reuters news organization that the gathering had additionally recovered the neighboring town of Soran. 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 1,200 IS contenders had been acquired to guard Dabiq. 

In other Syria advancements: 

At a meeting of remote pastors in London, US Secretary of State John Kerry said new authorizes were being considered against Russia and Syria in light of their activities in the city of Aleppo 

There are reports of no less than one individual dead and handfuls harmed in a blast on the edge of the alternative Rukban camp, where somewhere in the range of 75,000 Syrian displaced people are caught on their nation's fringe with Jordan 

Examination: Sebastian Usher, BBC Middle Easterner issues manager 

The fight for Dabiq has been working for a considerable length of time - with one town after another being seized from IS by revolt warriors sponsored by Turkish airstrikes. 

At last, it appears to have fallen quickly after the declaration of the last strike on Saturday. 

Deliberately, it's not a noteworthy prize. Be that as it may, IS has held onto it as an image of its prophetically calamitous vision of full scale showdown with its foes. 

Why is Dabiq so critical for IS? 

The town is named in one Hadith - or saying by the Prophet Mohammed - as the site of the climactic fight amongst Muslims and non-Muslims before the apocalypse. The gathering named its online magazine after it, yet has made light of its criticalness as of late, saying this fight is not the epic that was forecasted. 

An officer of one revolt bunch, the Hamza Detachment, told the Related Squeeze that resistance from IS was "negligible". 

Saif Abu Bakr said IS pulled back towards the bigger town of Al-Bab toward the south. 

He said in regards to 2,000 revolt contenders were included in the hostile. 

They were upheld by Turkish tanks and cannons, and airstrikes from global coalition warplanes.

Dabiq is only 10km (six miles) from the fringe with Turkey. 

In August, Turkey propelled a hostile to clear the fringe area of aggressors, which means both IS and Kurdish renegades battling IS. 

In September, the Turkish PM said the 91km fringe was "altogether secured" and "all the psychological oppressor associations were pushed back". 


A war that began with an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has now part Syria into numerous parts. It has been continuing for over five years and has asserted 300,000 lives.