BEIRUT: The Islamic State group has claimed a rocket attack that killed three Turkish soldiers in Syria, its first deadly attack on Turkish forces since they crossed the border two weeks ago. “Soldiers of the caliphate… targeted two tanks belonging to the apostate Turkish army with guided rockets,” the group said in a statement circulated on social media late on Tuesday. It said the tanks were destroyed and “a number of Turkish soldiers” killed. A senior Turkish official said three soldiers were killed and four wounded in the attack south of the border town of Al-Rai. One Turkish soldier was killed in an August 27 rocket attack that Ankara blamed on the US-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

Source: Manila Times September 07, 2016 07:07 UTC