WorldISTANBUL, AFP -Turkey on Tuesday pounded Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria with new artillery strikes as expectations grew of a major Ankara-backed offensive against the group after a deadly suicide bombing on its soil. In new fighting on Tuesday, two mortar rounds fired from an IS-controlled area in Syria hit the southeastern Turkish town of Karkamis while three more hit the centre of the Turkish border town of Kilis, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. There were no reports of injuries although 21 people in Kilis have been killed by fire from Syria in recent months. But he also warned it was “unacceptable” for Kurds to seek to establish any kind of separate entity in northern Syria. One guest at the wedding party, Emine Ayhan, lost four of her five children in the blast, Turkish media reported.

Source: Sunday Times August 23, 2016 11:26 UTC