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Tensions in Turkey escalated in late July, when the country launched a military campaign against the PKK in southern Turkey and northern Iraq, after the militants claimed responsibility for the murders of two Turkish police officers.

Kerry will travel to London later this week for talks to include the situation in Syria with British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond and the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates.

More than 100 police and soldiers have been killed, along with hundreds of militants, in renewed conflict since a ceasefire collapsed in July, shattering a peace process launched in 2012.

On 17 August, for the first time in two years, the UN Security Council, including Russian Federation, agreed to a statement in favour of a push for a political solution. “I’m thinking of Turkey which must get involved in the fight against Daesh (an alternative name...

A number of Mare’a residents said they suffered from asphyxiation after the ISIL terrorists fired shells seemingly containing toxic materials at the town on Saturday, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said last month that more than 37,000 foreign fighters have died during the ongoing conflict in Syria.

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.

But unlike chorine, which has a half-life of a few minutes, mustard gas is a persistent agent, Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a chemical and biological weapons expert told The Daily Star, meaning that it can remain in the buildings and in the ground for months or even years.

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.

Sulfur mustard is a Class 1 chemical agent, which means it has few uses outside chemical warfare. Gen. Kevin J. Killea, chief of staff, Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.

The Islamic State militia may have used mustard gas against opponents in northern Iraq, the US military said Friday, citing a field test that showed the presence of the chemical.

The request from the US stems from its recognition that the base of the Islamic State forces must be attacked more effectively, and frequently.

A senior US military officer says preliminary tests show traces of the chemical agent sulfur mustard on mortars that Islamic State militants used to attack Kurdish forces in Iraq.

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