Turkey resume air strikes on Islamic State

Turkish warplanes have bombed IS targets across the border in Syria. Credit: Google Maps

Turkey has resumed air strikes on targets relating to the so-called Islamic State in Syria - a day after IS militants fired at a Turkish military outpost, killing a soldier.

The strikes are the first against IS to come from a Turkish airbase, after Turkey agreed to allow America to fly missions from its Incirlik base on the Turkish-Syrian border.

ITV News Washington correspondent Robert Moore reports:

Turkey's state-run press agency released images of what they say are earlier strikes by Turkish warplanes on IS targets across the border in Syria.

A Turkish government official said three F-16 jets took off from Diyarbakir airbase in southeast Turkey and used smart bombs to hit three IS targets across the Turkish border.

The official also revealed the targets were two command centres and a gathering point of IS supporters, and the Turkish planes had not violated Syrian airspace.

The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman, said the three Turkish airstrikes were all near the border. And that the airstrikes killed nine IS fighters, wounded 12 others and destroyed at least one IS vehicle.