ANKARA: The United States launched its first airstrike from Turkey on an Islamic State target in Syria, as Ankara vowed it was ready to step up its own fight against jihadists.

"A US drone today carried out one airstrike in Syria near Raqa," a Turkish official told AFP, referring to the town in northern Syria that the IS group sees as its capital.

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