in to syria as fighting continues along a 200 kilometer stretch in the north of the country now in just the past few hours the turkey backed free syrian army is reported to have taken the city of tell about fighters there have been removing flags of kurdish backed troops in the area to raise their own flags it's part of a coordinated push directed by the turkish government after american forces started to withdraw from the region. and there to one has indicated that turkish troops are also ready to launch an assault on the syrian city of mandates which is held in the west of the country now syrian kurds in this area. turkish media reporting that the country's forces were preparing for an operation on man beds and were put this in at the city's edge having pushed into the area in the last 24 hours