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ANKARA, Turkey – Kurdish rebels detonated an explosives-laden agricultural vehicle Sunday at a military police station in eastern Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding 31 others, authorities said, amid a sharp escalation of violence between the government forces and the...

In another air operation in Bokriskan region of Iraq, the PKK’s “Sehit Dilan” battalion’s commander and four group leaders were killed, and 30 militants injured.

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.

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.

And last week, a U.S. effort to send newly trained Syrian rebels into the fight had an inauspicious start when the fighters were immediately attacked and scattered by an Al Qaeda offshoot.

But a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation official said members also used the closed-door meeting to call on Turkey not to use excessive force in reaction to attacks, while urging it to continue with peace efforts.

While the U.S. air campaign has conducted more than 4,600 strikes throughout Iraq and Syria, officials agree that some type of ground force is critical to permanently defeating the Islamic State. At least one of the U.S.-trained rebels was killed and others were wounded before...

Turkish warplanes on Wednesday pounded targets of PKK militants in northern Iraq, as parliament was to meet in emergency session to debate the government’s controversial campaign against Kurdish rebels and jihadists.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Fox said: “I don’t think it’s healthy for the coalition against Isis that the United States is carrying out some 90 per cent or more of all the air strikes”.

Until recently, only reconnaissance drones took off escapades from Incirlik.

Three people have been killed and seven wounded in clashes between Turkish security forces and suspected PKK militants in the Kurdish town of Silopi.

Shortly after the fighters were deployed they came under attack by al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate, the Nusra Front.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem was quoted by state television on Wednesday as saying Syria supported efforts to combat ISIL, provided they were coordinated with Damascus.

Turkey, a member of the worldwide coalition led by its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally Washington, had so far declined to take robust action against jihadists but after a deadly bombing in July in a border town blamed on suspected IS jihadists, it launched limited strikes...

“As part of our agreement with the US, we have made progress regarding the opening up of our bases, particularly Incirlik,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu earlier told state broadcaster TRT, as cited by Reuters.