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Daesh terrorists took another two villages further north in Aleppo province, near the border with Turkey.

ISIS members have executed at least 30 LGBT people, Jessica Stern, executive director of the worldwide Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, reported at Monday’s meeting.

Turkey and the U.S. are also about to finalize an agreement on the technical details for Turkey’s inclusion in counter-Daesh air campaign.

He’s believed to have favoured a brand new election, and Turkey’s fundamental opposition chief has accused the president of obstructing the coalition-building efforts, a cost Erdogan denies.

US Department of State Spokesman John Kirby has said he will refrain from talking about internal matters in Turkey, which will hold a snap election on November. 1, but pointed out that the US in general stands for “inclusiveness and representative government, fair and free,...

It said regime forces kept up airstrikes against ISIS to stave off the militants, as the extremist group stepped up offensives against both government forces and other insurgents in northern Syria.

Erdogan is expected to meet the speaker of parliament on Monday to prepare for the next stages, including the formation of a temporary government to carry the country over until the election.

The United States and Turkey will launch a “comprehensive” air campaign to flush Daesh fighters from a designated safe zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Reuters reported.

Addressing locally-elected heads of Turkish villages and neighborhoods at the Presidential Palace in the capital Ankara Wednesday, Erdogan said: “Unfortunately, Turkey could not meet a new government because no results were obtained in the [coalition] talks”.

The attack comes amid renewed violence between the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and Turkey’s security forces.

The Turkish government has censured the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for airing a report on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), saying the news organization is “overtly” supporting “terrorism”. Instead of allowing the Republican...

Prime minister Ahmet Davutolgu was in the capital Ankara as reports of the attack emerged and did not interrupt a speech being broadcast on live television.

A new Islamic State video is taking aim at Turkey, issuing a call to arms to “conquer Istanbul”.

If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decides to call for an early election in Turkey, the country will go to polls in late October, the daily said.

Under the terms of the constitution, if no government is formed by August 23, Erdoğan must dissolve Davutoğlu’s caretaker cabinet and call on an interim power-sharing government to lead Turkey to a new election in the autumn.