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Part of the Turkey–IS conflict, the Rojava conflict, the military intervention against IS, and Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war | ||||||||||||
![]() Turkish-backed opposition control SDF control Syrian Army control Islamic State control For a more detailed, up-to-date, interactive map, see here. | ||||||||||||
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![]() (Operations chief commander) ![]() (Second Army commander) ![]() ![]() (Sultan Murad Division commander) ![]() ![]() (Sultan Murad Division commander) Others
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![]() | 5,000–7,000+ militants[49][55][56][57] | Unknown | ||||||||||
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540+ civilians killed (per SOHR)[66][67] |
Operation Euphrates Shield (Turkish: Fırat Kalkanı Harekâtı) was a cross-border military operation conducted by the Turkish Armed Forces in the Syrian Civil War which led to the Turkish occupation of northern Syria. Operations were carried out in the region between the Euphrates river to the east and the rebel-held area around Azaz to the west. The Turkish military and Turkey-aligned Syrian rebel groups, some of which used the Free Syrian Army label, fought against the forces of the Islamic State (IS) as well as against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from 24 August 2016. On 29 March 2017, the Turkish military officially announced that Operation Euphrates Shield was "successfully completed".[13]
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on the first day of the operation that it was aimed against both the IS and Syrian Kurdish "terror groups that threaten our country in northern Syria".[68] The objective to capture Manbij, under the de facto control of the AANES administration, that had been promulgated by the Turkish president at the end of February 2017[69] remained unfulfilled.
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