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United States and French chemical weapons specialists arrived in the area yesterday to take samples and determine whether chemical weapons had indeed been used.

German newspaper Bild reported on Thursday that Islamic State fighters may have used chlorine gas shells in an attack on Kurdish forces in Makhmur.

“Despite our official announcement that we are not part of what is happening…the Turkish military monitors and targets our units”, the group said in a statement posted to their website.

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.

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.

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens were wounded in separate PKK attacks over the weekend in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast as violence escalated.

Islamic State (ISIL) militants have released more than 20 Christians kidnapped in northern Syria in February, a representative of the Assyrian community in Lebanon said Tuesday. The Assyrian Diocese in Al-Hasakah province did not disclose the details of payment pending the...

President of this very Regional Government of The Northern Iraq, Mesut Barzani tough his terminology about PKK later on losses of friendly non-military people found on the north Iraq resulting from these devices raids that were planned by Turkish Air Forces against Terrorism.

At least one gendarme private was killed in an attack on a military helicopter in southeastern Sirnak province Monday, the Turkish military said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the state-run Anadolu Agency, quoting unnamed police sources, said...

One of the attackers was killed during the bombing, while two others and a police officer died in a subsequent firefight, the Istanbul governor’s office said.

But a Defense Department official said Monday that the United States has not seen any movements to indicate the group was following through with its pullout plan.

Turkey’s largest city Istanbul was shaken by twin attacks on the US consulate and a police station that killed one senior officer, while five police were killed in the southeastern Sirnak province in an escalating cycle of violence.

“The Incirlik base agreement has been signed on our part”.

The U.S. has deployed F-16 fighter jets to Turkey to aid the air campaign against ISIS in Syria, according to yesterday’s report by NBC News.

The attack last week by fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the pipeline carrying Kurdish and Kirkuk oil to Mediterranean port of Ceyhan is part of a wider surge in violence by the PKK, targeting Turkish security forces and infrastructure after Ankara...