The Turkish military has said in a written statement that IS militants attacked a military base in northern Iraq where Turkish troops were stationed, the Daily Sabah reports.
Daily Sabah quote a senior Turkish security official as saying that four Turkish soldiers were wounded and have been evacuated and treated.
"We are pleased to confirm that their conditions are stable," the official said.
"Force protection is a key part of the anti-[IS] training efforts in the Mosul area, with which Turkey has been involved for more than a year. At this time, a number of Turkish troops remain stationed at the frontline against [IS] and we remain committed to playing an active role in the war on terror" the official added.
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Turkey Refuses To Pay Compensation For Downed Russian Warplane
nkara says it will not pay any compensation to Moscow for the Russian warplane that was shot down last month near the Turkish-Syrian border by Turkey's air force.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic announced Ankara's position on the issue on December 16, just minutes after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksei Meshkov called for Turkey to pay compensation for the downed plane.
Turkey shot down the plane on November 24 after it briefly entered Turkish airspace from Syria, ignoring several warnings.
One of the two pilots aboard the plane was killed in the incident.
Russia insists the plane never left Syrian airspace and has imposed a series of economic sanctions against Turkey in retaliation.
As the Syrian military resumes flights out of the recaptured Kweiris military air base in Aleppo province, Syrian rebels say that they expect raids to increase, Syria Direct reports.
Syria Direct spoke with Sheikh Abd al-Rahman a-Turki, a commander in the Nour a-Din a-Zinki brigades that is believed to have received U.S.-supplied TOW anti-tank missiles.
A-Turki said that the Syrian Air Force would likely fly L-39 Albatros ground attack jets out of Kweiris which would likely mean increased air strikes across Aleppo province.
The U.S. military has said that it is pulling 12 fighter jets -- F-15 Eagles and Strike Eagles -- from the Incirlik air base in Turkey.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Damascus, where she finds increased confidence as Russian air strikes start to ease the pressure on the Syrian army on key front lines.
Never mind that the economy is bad, and getting worse, that a spent Syrian army's accelerated recruitment drive is causing many young men to flee, and that a growing number of middle class professionals have left or are thinking of it.
"We're glad the Russians are here," is a phrase I heard time and again in the corridors of power.
Four Turkish soldiers wounded in IS mortar attack on the Bashiqa military base near Mosul in northern Iraq have been evacuated and treated, a Turkish official has said.
Reuters has more on the reports that IS has fired on the Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq where Turkish troops are stationed.
Kurdish military sources including Jabbar Yawar, the secretary general of the Peshmerga militia, told Reuters that IS militants fired rockets at the base as part of a wider offensive against Kurdish positions near Mosul.
Rita Katz of the SITE Intelligence group tweets this image of a women's clothing shop in an IS-controlled area.
Mahir Zeynalov of Turkey's Today's Zaman says at at least four Turkish soldiers have been wounded in an attack by the IS group on the Bashiqa base in northern Iraq.
The U.S. Department of Defense has tweeted these photographs of Defense Secretary Carter's meeting today with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.