Turkish military announces loss of 16 soldiers in clashes around Al-Bab town where fighting has intensified.

Nnewi— The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, gave “incurable hatred for Igbo people” as one of the reasons why they do not want President Muhammadu Buhari in any part of South-East. They also alleged that Mr President always refused to take distress calls from governors of South East anytime they called him to respond to attacks and other misfortunes, perpetrated by his Northern brothers against Biafrans. IPOB in a statement signed by its spokespersons, Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, recalled that on June 22, 2016, Mrs. Bridget Agbahime, a 74-year old Biafran trader was beheaded at Kofar Wambai market in Kano by five Islamic fundamentalists, and there was no condemnation from Buhari or any of his acolytes. IPOB statement entitled: “Why we do not want Muhammadu Buhari in Biafraland for now,” read: “To make matters worse, the killers were freed unconditionally from detention on November 3, 2016 by a magistrate court in Kano presided over by Jibrin Muhammed. Under the watch of Buhari, the case has been closed and the killers are free to go ahead and carry out more killings. “On April 25, 2016, 500 Hausa-Fulani terrorists, who go by the name “Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (Macban)”invaded Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State and slaughtered Biafrans and burnt 11 residential houses and some churches. “Mr. President even refused to take a distress call from the Governor of Enugu State and till date, Buhari and his acolytes have not condemned the killings. We have to remind the public that Muhammadu Buhari is the official grand patron of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria, MACBAN. “Prior to that incident on January 5, 2016, Hausa-Fulani terrorists abducted the king of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Akaeze Edward Ofulue III, and killed him in the forest. Typically, no words of condemnation came from Buhari and his acolytes and nobody was arrested and prosecuted.” According to IPOB, “the reasons why we must march tomorrow in Enugu against Buhari’s coming are for the sake of our fathers and mothers who were killed, and children born and unborn ripped out prematurely from their mothers’ wombs; we march for the sake of our land and Nimbo community in Uzo Uwani of Enugu State. “Again, we must march for the sake of those killed in Aba on February 12, 2016; Onitsha, August 30, 2015; in Nkpor, 29th and those killed on May 30, 2016 and buried in a mass grave. “We also must march for the killing in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State; Igweocha, Port Harcourt, Rivers State; the killing in Gbaramatu, Delta State. His soldiers should kill all of us for the world to see and justify the Amnesty International reports on Biafrans. “In addition, we are going to march to prove to the world in general how they have been killing us in Uzuitem in Abia State and for the sake Gideon Akaluka, who was beheaded by Muslim fundamentalists in Kano State.”

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Turkish military announces loss of 16 soldiers in clashes around Al-Bab town where fighting has intensified.

At least 33 Turkish soldiers were wounded in Wednesday's clashes [Umit Bektas/Reuters]

Clashes between Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and ISIL fighters have intensified around the northern Syrian town of Al-Bab, resulting in the deaths of 16 Turkish soldiers, the military's highest single-day toll of its four-month campaign inside the country.
Wednesday's battles, in which another 33 Turkish soldiers were wounded and 138 ISIL members were also killed, were some of the deadliest yet in Turkey's Euphrates Shield operation in northern Syria, according to the army.
"The operation to control Al-Bab, which is being besieged under the Euphrates Shield Operation, is ongoing," the army said in a statement.

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The military had said earlier that rebel forces, which have been launching attacks on ISIL fighters in Al-Bab for weeks, had largely established control over the strategic area around the town's hospital.
"Once this area has been seized, Daesh's dominance of Al-Bab will to a large extent be broken," it said in an earlier statement on Wednesday, using an Arabic acronym for the group.

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ISIL was using suicide bombers and vehicle-borne explosives intensively, the Turkish military said.
Turkey's military was pressing on with the operation after its foreign minister and his Russian and Iranian counterparts said in Moscow on Tuesday that they were ready to help broker a deal to end Syria's almost six-year-old war.

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The talks came as Syrian government forces neared their biggest victory in the conflict, closing in on the last rebel enclave in the city of Aleppo.
About 30 Turkish soldiers have been killed in the course of Euphrates Shield, which was launched to push ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, and a Kurdish militia away from Syria's border with Turkey.
Turkish air strikes on Wednesday destroyed 67 ISIL targets, the military said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, reported fierce clashes at the southwestern edges of Al-Bab, with some rebel advances there.
It said that Turkish air strikes in the area had killed seven people in Al-Bab and that 15 Turkish-backed rebels had been killed in fighting on Wednesday.
The Euphrates Shield operation is largely focused on combating ISIL, but Turkey is also determined to prevent the Kurdish YPG fighters, which it sees as a hostile force, from linking cantons it controls along the border.