Five Daesh militants were killed Thursday after they opened fire on Turkish soldiers who were minesweeping along the Turkish-Syrian border in southeastern Gaziantep province.

Daesh terrorists attacked the Turkish soldiers at around 3: 20 p.m. near the Customs gate in the district of Karkamış as they commenced fire from a pick-up truck from Jarabulus on the Syrian side of the border.

The attack prompted immediate retaliation with artillery fire and tanks from Turkish soldiers.

In the clash the five terrorists inside the truck were killed, while no casualties or injuries were reported on the Turkish side.

Ambulances were sent to the area as precaution.

Turkey has had its share of attacks by the terrorist organization in the last year. The first major attack was on July 20 in Suruç, a town in the province of Şanlıurfa located on the Turkish-Syrian border. A suicide bomber linked to the terrorist group blew himself up amid a large crowd attending a rally organized by several nongovernmental organizations. Thirty-two people were killed in the attack.

As Turkey reeled from the Suruç attack, a second attack blamed on Daesh occurred on Oct. 10 when two suicide bombers linked to Daesh blew themselves up at a peace rally. Over 400 people were injured and 102 people were killed in the attack, the deadliest in the history of the Republic of Turkey.

Turkey is among the primary targets of the terrorist organization, which controls towns near the country's border with Syria, for its contribution to the campaign against Daesh. Earlier this month, some 200 Daesh members in Syria were killed by artillery fire from the Turkish side in retaliation to the Sultanahmet bombing.