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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey will open other bases for Coalition operations against the Islamic State.

The organizations said they had also documented two such attacks against Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province on June 28. But the Peshmerga official said the weapons were made of chlorine.

Washington reportedly suggests the jihadists used mustard gas, while the Kurds believe it was chlorine, which is more unsafe.

Wednesday saw U.S. warplanes deploy for airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, for the first time.

US drones had previously executed a single lethal airstrike in Syria but this was the first time manned US fighter jets had carried out raids after taking off from Turkey’s strategically located Incirlik base. Its use would enable the U.S. -led coalition to conduct better...

US warplanes on Wednesday carried out their first air strikes on IS targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, kicking off a key new phase in the campaign against the militants.

In the same province, units of the Turkish antiterrorist police on Friday killed three alleged militants or PKK sympathizers during raids on their homes, two days after a soldier died when attackers fired a grenade launcher at an armored vehicle.

Bilgiç said that the coalition aircraft flying from Turkish bases could target Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, but were not authorised to provide air support to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants attacked a military outpost and a police vehicle in southeast Turkey overnight, killing a policeman, officials and security sources said on Sunday, in further violence jeopardising a fragile peace process.

Another soldier was killed in an attack in neighbouring Agri province.

“As they continue to progress, they are building regional coalitions specifically with local Arab forces committed to defeating ISIL and expelling them from these lands”, Ryder said. The Assad government also tolerates US-led airstrikes over Syria on the basis that...

Iraqi Kurdish officials said Saturday six people had been killed in a pre-dawn strike by Turkish war planes on the village of Zarkel and there have been reports of civilian casualties.

“We were outraged. We had no idea who the Turkish fighters were, their call signs, what frequencies they were using, their altitude or what they were squawking (to identify the jets on radar)”, the source told Sky News.

The governor’s office for Agri province says Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, militants attacked a military police station with an agricultural vehicle laden with explosives early Sunday.

Bush has tried to separate himself from his brother’s legacy by explaining his foreign policy will not mirror that of George W. After struggling with criticism, Jeb recently admitted he wouldn’t have invaded Iraq, calling it a mistake.