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US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Mark A. Milley, says Turkey's ground incursion in Syria has been 'relatively limited'. SOUNDBITE
Turkish shelling killed 55 Islamic State insurgents in northern Syria on Saturday evening in retaliation for weeks of rocket attacks on a Turkish border town. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration).
Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES
Images of rescue efforts in the northern suburbs of Gaziantep, southern Turkey, where hundreds of people stand before the ruins of a collapsed building, waiting for news of their missing loved ones. An ambulance stands ready to take evacuees from the rubble. IMAGES
Turkey is more determined than ever to secure its border with Syria and prevent attacks by Kurdish forces, says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who claims his country's "operations with plans, cannons and drones are only the beginning." SOUNDBITE
Images show destruction caused by Turkish air strikes against Kurdish power plants in northern Syria. Turkey announced early Sunday it had carried out air strikes against outlawed Kurdish 'militant bases' across northern Syria and Iraq which it said were being used to launch "terrorist" attacks on its soil. IMAGES
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