Turkey bombs Islamic State targets in Syria

Baku. 24 July. REPORT.AZ/ A day earlier the two sides exchanged fire near the border, with one soldier killed and two more injured.

Report informs citing BBC, Turkey is to let the US carry out air strikes against the Islamic State group from a key military base near the Syrian border, US officials have said.

On Monday, 32 people were killed in a suicide attack in a Turkish town on the Syrian border blamed on IS.

A statement released by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's office said that F-16 jets had hit three IS targets. The decision to carry out the attacks was taken at a security meeting called after Thursday's border clashes.

The jets had not violated Syrian air space as they attacked the border town of Havar.