The Turkish General Staff said in a statement four targets were destroyed between 9.34 a.m. and 9:44 a.m. local time (0634 – 0644GMT) in three different areas of northern Syria.
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Washington says Turkish attacks on Kurdish-aligned militias damage a USA -backed coalition that is fighting Islamic State.
A group of 292 Syrians went back to the Syrian town of Jarablus from Turkey on Wednesday, marking the first formal return of civilians since Ankara launched a military incursion two weeks ago to try to secure the border region, a Turkish official said.
Ankara-backed fighters seized the town of Jarabulus from IS jihadists on the first day of the operation, without much resistance from the extremist group.
Turkish troops have again clashed with fighters of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) on the border with the Kurdish canton of Afrin.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a phone call late Thursday, and agreed to continue efforts to achieve a truce in Aleppo, Syria, the Turkish Presidency said in a statement.
Turkey can’t launch a military operation in Syria’s Raqqa on its own, Anadolu Agency quoted Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying September 8.
According to AFAD, there are three million Syrian refugees in Turkey.
Friday’s attack marked the seventh Turkish casualty so far in Turkey’s two-pronged, cross-border operation against ISIS and Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria.
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Turkey sees the Syrian Kurdish militia force YPG as a terror group affiliated with its outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) waging a bloody campaign against the Turkish state.
