Turkey's army has launched artillery strikes on positions of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria after the jihadists recaptured an area near the Turkish border, local media reported Monday, Ankara AFP informs.
Turkish artillery fired shells from howitzers positioned on its border region of Kilis against IS targets, the private NTV television reported.
Meanwhile, more than one rocket fired from the Syrian side of the border hit the centre of a Turkish town, a Turkish government official told AFP.
The official did not say who fired the rockets which slammed into the centre of Kilis – the main town in the province of the same name – near the Syrian border and left more than four people wounded.
The injured were taken to hospital in ambulances, he said.
