ANKARA (Reuters) - The Turkish military lost contact on Tuesday with two of its soldiers deployed in the operation to sweep Islamic State from northern Syria, the army said in a statement.
The army said that contact with the soldiers was lost at around 3:30 p.m. local time (1230 GMT). It did not give any further details.
Islamic State's Amaq news agency earlier said that Islamic State fighters had captured two Turkish soldiers near a village west of al-Bab in the Aleppo countryside. Reuters was not immediately able to verify the authenticity of the claim.
(Reporting by Ece Toksabay, Orhan Coskun and Ali Abdelatti; Editing by David Dolan)
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