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Originally, the United States, Russia, and Turkey were expected to be involved in the assault, a plan which three generals - Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Valery Gerasimov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, and Hulusi Akar, Chief of Staff of the Turkish Army - discussed in the Turkish town of Antalya on March 7, 2017. The Pentagon had subsequently made it known that the performance of the Turkish military in liberating the town of Al Bab was satisfactory.
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