Turkey has announced its military campaign inside northern Syria was over, without specifying whether it will pull its troops out from the neighbouring country. Turkey’s top advisory national security council chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, the half-year long offensive in Syria has been concluded successfully.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim also said, the operation has been completed but did not rule out new military campaigns inside Syria under a different name. In August, Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield inside Syria targeting Islamic State terrorists and Syrian Kurdish militia fighters that Ankara says are terrorists.

Since the onset of the unprecedented operation, Turkey-backed Syrian rebels have captured from militants several towns including Jarabulus, Al-Rai, Dabiq and finally Al-Bab, where the Turkish army sustained heavy casualties. The strategic town of Al-Bab had been the terrorists’ last stronghold in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.