Turkish soldier killed in ISIL attack in Syria

One Turkish soldier was killed in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in northern Syria on Nov. 19, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Three soldiers were wounded when ISIL militants staged a bomb attack targeting Turkish troops near the city of Al-Bab, north of Aleppo.        

The wounded were immediately taken to a hospital in the border province of Gaziantep.

However, Private Oğuzhan Demir later succumbed to his wounds.        

The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) has been fighting around the Al-Bab and Al-Rai regions as part of the Euphrates Shield Operation, which was launched in late August to rid the northern Syrian border area of terrorist elements.