Strikes, Turkish shelling kills 14 Daesh

Cross-border shelling by the Turkish army and air strikes by US-led coalition aircraft killed 14 Daesh (IS) militants in Syria, state-run Anadolu Agency cited Turkey's military as saying on Saturday.

Eleven targets were hit by Turkish artillery and by nine air strikes as they were believed to be preparing to fire on Turkey, the armed forces was reported as saying. It was not clear when the military action occurred.

The strikes targeted several areas near the Syrian town of Azaz, west of a US-backed operation against IS militants and directly south of the Turkish border town of Kilis.

Thousands of Syrian rebels supported by a small US special operations team launched a major offensive on Tuesday to drive Daesh from the ‘Manbij pocket’, further east near the Turkish border. Agencies