The US-led coalition against the Islamic State conducted 17 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Monday, including two near the Syrian border city of Al Bab, Operation Inherent Resolve said in a press release.
"Near Al Bab, two strikes destroyed a tactical vehicle and an excavator," the release stated on Tuesday.
The US-led coalition previously considered Turkey’s Al Bab offensive to be independent of the operation against the Islamic State but reengaged with Ankara after Turkish officials questioned Washington's use of its Incirlik air base for coalition operations.
Turkish troops rolled over the border in August to battle IS and halt the advance of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters, who are also fighting the extremists.
But nearly two months into the assault on al-Bab, one of IS' last major strongholds in northern Syria, Turkey has become bogged down in the fighting, which has driven a wedge between Ankara and Washington.
Turkish officials say Washington hasn't done enough to support Turkey's operations in al-Bab and has forced Ankara to reach out to Russia for aerial support.
ERDOĞAN CRITICIZED DELAYS
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday criticized delays in the U.S.-led coalition's offensive against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, as the extremists pressed ahead with an offensive against Syrian government forces.
Erdoğan spoke after the capture of an Uzbekistan national who authorities say trained in Afghanistan and carried out a deadly New Year's nightclub attack in Istanbul.
Speaking in Ankara Erdoğan said "the operations that are constantly delayed are of no benefit for the well-being of these two countries' people."
