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Six Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) members have been killed in clashes to take control of three towns in al-Rai, while Turkey hit 99 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and four Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) targets, the army said.

Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts on Sept. 27, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive new military campaign that has destroyed a U.S.-backed cease-fire. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has apparently been involved in hectic telephone diplomacy on the Syrian conflict as the Syrian army has, under pressure from Russia and the United States, agreed to respect a two-day truce in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said it carried out a missile strike on an Egyptian navy vessel off North Sinai on July 16, the first such incident in a two-year insurgency.