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Turkey has seen a sharp spike in clashes between security forces and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the a wake of its campaign against PKK targets in Iraq in tandem with airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. It has also rounded up hundreds...

The foreign trooper is American and the remaining eight victims are Afghans, according to Afghan sources. “I think that was a little over-optimistic”. “Anything is possible”.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens wounded Sunday in a suicide attack claimed by Kurdish militants, as Ankara kept up its air campaign against the rebels’ bases in northern Iraq.

Security officials in Iraq say two bombings have torn through different neighborhoods in the country’s eastern Diyala province, killing at least 42 people.

ISTANBUL (AP) – Two assailants opened fire at the heavily-protected U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul on Monday, touching off a gunfight with police before fleeing the scene, Turkish media reports said.

The names and nationalities of the foreign military and civilian contractors killed were not released. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images Afghan firefighters hose down the street outside Camp Integrity Saturday.

Five people were killed in eastern Turkey on Friday in a series of clashes between security forces and Kurdish militants, part of a surge in violence that has put further strain on a fragile peace process between Ankara and the rebels.

The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for the first two blasts. The Interior Ministry on Saturday identified 11 of those killed belonging to the force, while four were Bangladeshi workers.

The BBC’s Beijing correspondent says Turkey’s current border crisis may also give renewed impetus to its plans to buy a Chinese long-range missile system. On Monday, Syria’s main Kurdish militia and an activist group said Turkish troops shelled a Syrian village...

The Tropical Storm Risk website downgraded the typhoon to a category 1 storm by Saturday afternoon, on a scale of 1 to 5, and indicated it could weaken as it moves toward the Chinese province of Fujian, which it is due to hit late on Saturday. All of the villagers had been...

The men were pilots and engineers contracted by the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, she said. The workers – two South Africans, one Russian and a Ukrainian – were able to avoid detection during the deadly events that left a dozen people dead.

Though no one has come forward to take responsibility for the attack, it appears to be another aggressive act by Taliban which has been stepping up attacks in last few days after there were reports of rift within the group.

Afghan security forces inspect the site of an attack at the main gate of worldwide Hamed Karzai Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, August 10, 2015.

Typhoon Soudelor hit China’s east coast on Sunday, killing 14 people and forcing the authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands more.

Earlier this year they killed the three secular bloggers on the street.