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ANKARA, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Turkish Armed Forces on Sunday shelled targets of extremist group in Syria's Idlib, a day after Ankara announced the start of a military operation there, private broadcaster NTV has reported.
Turkish howitzers on the border fired around five shots in support of allied Free Syrian Army fighters who had entered Idlib, which is largely controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a former al-Qaida affiliate that changed its name last year from the Nusra Front, the report said.
According to Dogan News Agency, the intermittent artillery fires were shot from Reyhanli, a town in Turkey's southern Hatay province and near the Syrian-Turkish border.
