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Drones, Turkish artillery hit ISIS in Syria, 34 dead | ||
2016-05-03 | ||
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Shelling by Turkish artillery and drones which took off from southern ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... struck ISIS targets in Syria on Sunday, killing 34 myrmidons, the Turkish military said. It said the strikes, in response to ISIS rocket attacks which hit the southern Turkish province of Kilis, destroyed six vehicles and five ISIS gun positions. The border town of Kilis and surrounding area has been hit frequently by rocket fire from ISIS-controlled Syrian territory in recent months, killing civilians. In Sunday’s strikes, Turkish howitzers and multiple rocket launchers first hit ISIS targets about 12 km south of the border, then four drones that took off from the Incirlik base in southern Turkey destroyed further targets, the military said.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... positions under its rules of engagement, but has said it needs greater support from Western allies, citing the difficulty of hitting moving targets with howitzers. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying last week that the United States would deploy a rocket launcher system near the stretch of border that has come under attack. A senior US military official confirmed the matter was under discussion but declined to comment further.
The state-owned Anadolu Agency says the strikes took out multiple rocket launchers and gun positions. Four drones deployed from the Incirlik air base, a launching point for US-led coalition forces in southern The The remaining 34 IS fighters were “neutralized” by rocket fire and artillery shelling from Turkey, according to Anadolu Agency. | ||
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