Four rockets hit SE Turkish Diyarbakir airport

Four rockets were launched at the southeastern Turkish airport of Diyarbakir Saturday night, causing no casualties or disruptions. The attack, apparently by the Turkish Kurdish insurgent PKK, came four days after Turkey’s military incursion into Syria which drove ISIS back from the border town of Jarablus but was also aimed at evicting Syrian Kurdish fighters from the border regions with Washington's assent.. The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia has been striking back. In the ensuing clashes, one Turkish soldier was killed and three wounded when an YPG rocket hit their tank and Turkish F-16 jets bombed a YPG position and also hit six Islamic State targets.
 

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