Four Turkish soldiers were killed and 15 soldiers wounded, some of them seriously, as clashes between Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Daesh militants intensified around the northern Syrian town of al-Bab on Wednesday, Al-Arabiya television reported.

“Currently clashes are continuing intensively in the area,” a Turksih military statement said, describing the hospital area, on the slope of a hill overlooking al-Bab, as having long been used by Daesh as a weapons and ammunition store.

Turkish air strikes on Wednesday morning destroyed 24 Daesh targets and killed more than 40 militants, according to estimates by the army. It added that some 15 extremists had been killed in the previous 24 hours.

Source: MENA