Thirty one Daesh militants have been killed in clashes and U.S.-led coalition air strikes in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, the Turkish military said on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish tanks and air strikes, have been pushing towards the Daesh stronghold of Dabiq, a village with symbolic importance to the jihadists, in an operation launched in late August.
Fourteen of the Daesh fighters were killed as they attempted to enter the rebel-controlled villages of Akhtarin and Turkmen Bareh, three kilometers (two miles) east of Dabiq, the Turkish army said in a statement.
Another 17 Daesh fighters were killed in air strikes by coalition warplanes in the same areas, the military said in its daily round-up on the operation, dubbed "Euphrates Shield".
