WASHINGTON: The
US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group has resumed air
strikes from a Turkish air
base that were suspended after a failed military coup d’etat, the Pentagon said on Sunday.
“After close coordination with our Turkish allies, they have reopened their airspace to military aircraft,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement. “As a result, counter-ISIL
coalition air operations at all air bases in
Turkey have resumed,” he added, using an acronym for the IS group.
“US facilities at Incirlik are still operating on internal power sources, but we hope to restore commercial power soon.
base operations have **t been affected.” The Turkish authorities on Saturday imposed a security lockdown at the Incirlik air
base in the southern province of Adana used by US and other
coalition forces in the fight
against jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
The facility is 68 miles
from the Syrian border and houses 1,500 US troops. The
base has **tably been used to deploy drones, Prowler electronic warplanes and A-10 ground attack aircraft in the fight
against the IS group.
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