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The restrictions on travel to Turkey apply to an area of along Syria’s border that stretches from Adana, where Incirlik is located, east to Van and south to Ganziantep.

As of June, the number of individuals held in Israeli jails under administrative detention – a practice that allows the holding of terrorism suspects without charges or trial – included 370 Palestinians and two foreigners, but not a single Israeli Jew, according to...

Other, less reliable reports suggest the number could be as high as 1,086, the report said. The toll is dwarfed by that of ISIS, but the Airwars group, which produced the research, alleges that the failure of the United States and other nations to release enough information...

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.

Meanwhile, a plane belonging to Yemenia, the national carrier, landed in Aden with 150 Yemenis who had fled to Djibouti when the fighting intensified in March, airport officials there said.

Sources in Yemen’s government confirmed the move, though there has been no official announcement, and Yemen’s exiled information minister said on Tuesday that commercial flights would be diverted from the capital to the southern port of Aden.

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Turkey has faced increasing insecurity along its 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria.

Two Turkish security troops have been killed and 24 wounded in a suicide attack by Kurdish PKK militants, the regional governor’s office says.

The Prime Minister said the agreement with the U.S. on opening Turkish bases for allied jets fulfilled some of Turkey’s “concerns and expectations”.

Turkish security officials said that the PKK members planted an explosive device on the side of a road near the village of Araköy in Şırnak, “and detonated it when a Turkish armored vehicle approached the location”.

Two soldiers were killed and two others wounded today in southeast Turkey when a mine exploded in an attack blamed on militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), security sources said. In a day of apparent tit-for-tat violence, shortly after the raids by F-16...

The U.S. military is expanding its combat role in Syria in defense of coalition-backed rebels, conducting armed drone missions into Syria from an air base in Turkey and imposing new rules allowing the U.S.to defend rebels against attacks from any hostile force, including the...

But in an unexpected twist, Turkey simultaneously started shelling Kurdish rebels in Iraq, where Kurds have proved unusually capable of wresting back territory from the Islamic State militants with the help of air support from the U.S.-led coalition.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported on Palestinian Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi denouncing the Jewish settlers who perpetrated the latest arson attack as having their hands covered by Palestinian children’s blood. The Shin Bet sought to put Ettinger under administrative detention in...