Turkey's military killed 18 Islamic State militants in
northern Syria over the last 24 hours, the army said on Saturday,
intensifying strikes against the militant group.
Four buildings and one vehicle used by the Islamic State
fighters were destroyed in the strikes, an army statement said.
Separately, five Turkey-backed rebels and five Islamic State
militants were killed in clashes on the ground, the army said in
its statement. In addition, it said coalition forces conducted six
air strikes which killed another 10 Islamic State militants.
Turkey is backing a group of Syrian Arabs and Turkmen in
northern Syria in its Euphrates Shield operation, which has swept
Islamic State from its southern border.
The hardline Sunni group claimed responsibility for a car bomb
attack in the Turkish southeastern city of Diyarbakir that killed
11 last week.
However, an offshoot of the Kurdish militant Kurdish group PKK
claimed the same attack. Kurdish militants, Islamic State radicals
and far leftists have all staged attacks on civilians in Turkey in
recent years.