The Turkish army said Wednesday it had opened fire on a convoy of vehicles in northern Syria belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group.

The army said the attack, carried out Tuesday, came after two Turkish military vehicles had been fired upon at the Cobanbey border post in the south of the country.

"A pick-up, a truck and a bus in an ISIL convoy were destroyed," read the statement, published by Turkish media. There were no casualties on the Turkish side.