Senior ISIS leader, executioner among 7 detainees in Turkey

Senior ISIS leader, executioner among 7 detainees in Turkey
Turkish authorities detained senior members of ISIS and the military hit several of its targets in northern Syria.

Police raided six addresses on Monday in counter terrorism operations in the eastern province of Elazığ and detained seven alleged ISIS members who entered the country a while ago from Syria, Daily Sabah reported.

One of the detainees is said to be a senior leader of the terrorist group. The suspect, identified only with the initials F.Ş., has reportedly carried out many executions in Syria. The police reportedly also seized many documents belonging to the organization in the raids. Military sources said that 27 ISIS terrorists were killed in the north of Syria’s Aleppo province by Turkish shelling and U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Sunday. According to sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the terrorists were detected with the help of surveillance devices and killed on the verge of firing rockets at Turkey.

The raids and intensified cross-border shelling came three days after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey is preparing to "clean" the Syrian side of the border of ISIS.

"We are making all the necessary preparations to clean the other side of the border because of the problems in Kilis," he said amid persistent speculation of a possible cross-border ground operation, without giving details of the preparations.

In its latest series of attacks, Turkish army along with U.S.-led coalition forces struck Daesh targets north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing 27 terrorists, Focus Information Agency reported.

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