After a pre-dawn barrage of heavy artillery and airstrikes, Turkey sent tanks and special forces into Syria today (August 24, 2016) to help clear a border town of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants in Ankara's most significant military involvement so far in Syria's five and one-half-year civil war, according to the CBS News website.
Syrian opposition fighters also took part in the cross-border attack.
Syrian rebel forces have told CBS News that about 1,500 of their fighters crossed into Syria today, heading to the town of Jarablus.
Jarablus is a key town because it lies on the only section of Turkey's 500-mile-long border with Syria that remains under the control of ISIS. Thousands of foreign fighters have used the Turkey-Syria border to cross into Syria's war zone.
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