Turkey has pulled additional forces to the border with Syria and placing several rocket launchers near the Turkish city of Kilis, local media reports.
According to a military source, Turkey has sent 13 trailers parked with military equipment to the southeastern regions of the country in order to strengthen its military capacities on the Syrian border.
Anadolu news agency reported that earlier, Ankara and Washington struck a deal to deploy light multiple rocket launchers (MRL) on Turkish border with Syria to fight Islamic State/Daesh.
According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry Mevlut Cavusoglu, the missile systems are expected to be operational in the border area in May.
"Our artillery has a maximum range of forty kilometers, that the US MRL is ninety kilometers. Our main goal is to clean up the 98-kilometer stretch of our border from the IS (Daesh), and afterwards the security zone will form by itself," Cavusoglu told Turkish media.
In recent weeks, Turkish city of Kilis has been shelled several times from the Syrian territory which currently under the reign of the Islamic State.
Islamic State/Daesh is a terrorist group outlawed in the United States and Russia among other states.
The terror group has seized large swathes in Syria and Iraq and declaring itself a caliphate on the territories under its control but U.S. led coalition offensives are neutralizing their efforts.
