F-16 fighters fly on first missions from Turkey

No details released on Islamic State targets

The US on Wednesday launched its first airstrikes by Turkey-based F-16 fighter jets against Islamic State targets in Syria, marking a limited escalation of a yearlong air campaign that critics have called excessively cautious.

In a brief statement, the Pentagon announced the F-16 strikes were launched from Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, but provided no details on the number or types of targets struck. It did not say how many of the six F-16s based at Incirlik were used in the initial strikes.