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The worry is that Turkey’s growing involvement in the Syria war could suck the United States and the Europeans into a wider regional quagmire and that Ankara’s real targets are the Kurds. Cavusoglu said, adding that the Turkish government was still in favor of finding...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Daesh fighters infiltrated Sarrin, a town in Aleppo province recently captured by Kurdish forces, and attacked a school being used as a base by Kurds.

It was called after Turkish warplanes last week started striking militant targets in Syria in response to an Islamic State group suicide bombing in southern Turkey that left 32 people dead, and another IS attack on Turkish forces, which killed a soldier.

The majority of Syrian rebel fighters who have completed training by the United States are from the Division 30 group.

Turkish officials have said the aim in Syria is to push Islamic State away from the border and their operations will not target Syrian Kurdish groups.

At a Pentagon briefing, Davis said that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was reviewing the options that came with Turkey’s surprise announcement last week permitting the U.S.to use the Air Force base at Incirlik, Turkey, for strikes against ISIS in Syria, but decisions were...

Davutoglu, a member of the ruling AKP, demanded that the HDP “clarify its stance towards the PKK”, an armed group considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey.

Ankara, earlier, said PKK attacks on Turkey made peace attempts impossible.

District of Gazi in Istanbul, on July 26, 2015.

Turkey has also denied, and is now investigating, allegations that their tanks recently fired over the Syrian border and killed members of the Kurdish YPG (also known as the People’s Protection Units).

Turkey, meanwhile, fuelled the growing anger of its Kurdish minority by shelling a Kurdish-held village in northern Syria while its warplanes continued to pound Kurdish targets in northern Iraq.

Security forces has detained at least 15 people suspected of links to the Islamic State gr… The graffiti on the background reads in Turkish “Front”. The official insisted on anonymity because this person was not authorized to publicly discuss the talks with Turkey.

Gen. Kevin Killea. “With more than 5,200 strikes in Syria and Iraq since the beginning of the air campaign, the coalition continues to show its commitment to supporting anti-[ISIL] forces”.

Beirut: Islamic State has welcomed more than 1,100 minors among its ranks in Syria since the beginning of this year, referring to them as the “caliphate cubs”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, or SOHR reported on Thursday. The group’s website was not...

The president’s meetings with top Pentagon officials and other national security advisers follow a wave of weekend airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Syria.