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In 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, Turkey refused to allow U.S. troops to use Turkey as a transit to set up a northern access route against the forces of Saddam Hussein.

The Ministry refuted the allegations of the letter sent by Turkey to the UN Secretary-General and the head of the Security Council and asserted that the Syrian Army and Armed Forces are fighting ISIS and al-Nusra across Syria, while journalists have published photos of Turkish...

The leader of a U.S.-backed rebel group and several of his men have been abducted in northern Syria by the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, the rebel group and opposition activists said Thursday.

“There are indications of possible attacks on subways and at bus stops in Istanbul”, the government warned.

Asseri, whose side has been conducting air raids on Houthis since March 26, said the first task was to secure Aden so the government could operate from there for the moment. The coalition also struck upper of the port-city of Aden.

Bahçeli earlier suggested that the MHP form a coalition with the AK Party if it agrees to prevent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meddling in government affairs in line with constitutional limits, end the initiative to resolve the Kurdish issue through talks with the imprisoned...

The worry is that Turkey’s growing involvement in the Syria war could suck the United States and the Europeans into a wider regional quagmire and that Ankara’s real targets are the Kurds. Cavusoglu said, adding that the Turkish government was still in favor of finding...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Daesh fighters infiltrated Sarrin, a town in Aleppo province recently captured by Kurdish forces, and attacked a school being used as a base by Kurds.

However, ground fighting broke out nearly immediately in the restive city of Taiz following random shelling by Shiite Houthi rebels in three neighborhoods, they said.

Ground fighting erupted in multiple provinces within minutes of the start of the unilateral ceasefire late Sunday.

The wreckage of a auto is seen at the site of a vehicle bomb attack near a Shiite mosque on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on July 20, 2015.

The WFP had sent aid ahead of the truce to the rebel-controlled port of Hodeidah in western Yemen, but the insurgents did not allow an aid convoy to travel to Aden. The ship had initially reached the city on June 26 but was diverted from the port until it had a safe place to...

It was called after Turkish warplanes last week started striking militant targets in Syria in response to an Islamic State group suicide bombing in southern Turkey that left 32 people dead, and another IS attack on Turkish forces, which killed a soldier.

This is a significant change in policy: Ankara joined the anti-ISIL coalition when it was formed last September, but it has been the coalition’s most reluctant member, refusing to get directly involved against the group. More than 30 people were killed.

Turkish officials have said the aim in Syria is to push Islamic State away from the border and their operations will not target Syrian Kurdish groups.