A tour guide holding her pet and a placard visits the site of Tuesday's suicide bomb attack at Sultanahmet square in Istanbul, Turkey January 14, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish tanks and artillery have bombarded Islamic State positions in Syria and Iraq over the past 48 hours, killing almost 200 of its fighters in retaliation for a suicide bombing in Istanbul, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday.
An Islamic State suicide bomber, who entered Turkey as a Syrian refugee, blew himself up among groups of tourists in the historic centre of Istanbul on Tuesday, killing 10 Germans and seriously wounding several other foreigners. [L8N14X0V7]
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