As of 2015, Turkey is actively supporting the Army of Conquest,[310] an umbrella Syrian rebel group that reportedly includes an al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front and another Salafi coalition known as Ahrar al-Sham.[311][312] Al-Nusra Front and Islamic State (ISIL) sometimes cooperate with each other when they fight against the Syrian government.[313][314] In late November 2016, Erdoğan said that the Turkish military launched its operations in Syria to end Assad's rule,[315] but retracted his statement shortly afterwards.[316]