Off the wire
• Premier Li visits quake-hit province, urges better development  • Schools closed in Zanzibar over cholera outbreak  • Feature:Turks pursue missing skull of Ottoman-era architect  • 2 killed in shell attack near Sudan's East Darfur state governor house  • Spotlight: Chernobyl, Fukushima nuclear tragedies leave global safety lessons  • Vietnam declares free of Zika cases  • Prospects in German labor market remain good: research report  • Iran woos intl. oil firms for cooperation: report  • Animal disease programs sound, cost-effectiveness unclear: EU auditors  • 2nd Ld-Writethru-China Focus: China to revitalize northeast rustbelt  
You are here: 　 Home

11 IS militants killed in Syria as Turkey rains artillery shells

Xinhua, April 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

Eleven militants of the Islamic State (IS) were killed in Syria on Tuesday when Turkish artillery units shelled two missile launchers, local Daily news reported.

This was the second such operation by the Turkish Army in the past two days, said the report, adding that the Turkish artillery units shelled a missile launcher in Syria on Monday, killing eight IS militants.

Reconnaissance vehicles spotted two missile launchers ready for attack in Duwaibik, 26 km from the center of the southeastern province of Kilis.

Meanwhile, a three-story building next to the launchers in Syria was also destroyed, said the report.

The Turkish military responded to the IS group that has fired 45 rockets hitting the province of Kilis and killing at least 17 people since Jan. 18 this year.

Turkey has recently been on high alert as the country has been rocked by a series of suicide and car bomb attacks which claimed many lives and wounded hundreds more. Endit