The attack targeted Turkey-backed rebels who have for days been besieging the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab, a major goal in Ankara's "Euphrates Shield" operation to push the jihadists away from the Syrian side of the Turkish border. The Turkish military said the rocket attack was in Syria’s Haliliye area, according to state-run Anadolu agency. The army did not specify where the attack had taken place. A fighter from the Syrian pro-government forces mans a riffle inside a damaged house in the recently recaptured village of Joubah during an offensive towards the area of Al Bab in Aleppo province on Friday (AFP photo)

ISTANBUL — The Daesh terror group militants have fired a rocket in northern Syria that caused symptoms of “chemical gas” exposure in 22 Syrian rebels, state media cited Turkey’s military as saying on Sunday. Media reports said Turkish AFAD emergency relief teams had conducted various tests on the affected rebels for traces of chemical materials at a hospital in Turkey’s border province of Kilis. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 Islamic State targets while one Turkish soldier was killed in a clash with militants during an offensive in northern Syria, Turkey's military said on Saturday. On Saturday, Turkey's state-run news agency said a Turkish soldier was killed and three were wounded in an attack during an anti-Islamic State operation in northern Syria, raising to five the number of Turkish troops killed in Syria last week. Since Syria's crisis began in March 2011, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has been a strong supporter of Syrian rebels trying to remove President Bashar Assad from power.
Turkish Armed Forces claim that an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant rocket attack on Turkish-backed Syrian rebel forces caused symptoms of chemical weapons in 22 soldiers.