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A statement released by “Division 30” accused Nusra Front of abducting their leader Nadim al-Hasan and a number of his companions in a rural area north of Aleppo, AFP reported. Last year, it routed two rebel militias, the Syria Revolutionaries Front and the Hazzm...

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.

Uefa president Michel Platini says he has “weighed up the future of football” after confirming he will be a candidate to be the next president of Fifa. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Platini has not announced his candidacy.

“The failure of Saudi Arabia and other coalition members to investigate apparently unlawful air strikes in Yemen demonstrates the need for the United Nations Human Rights Council to create a commission of inquiry”, it said.

Former chief minister of Goa, Digambar Kamat, has been accused of taking bribes on two occasions, between 2010 and 2011.

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).

Human Rights Watch condemned as an “apparent war crime” on Tuesday a Saudi-led air raid in Yemen last week that it said killed at least 65 civilians in residential compounds.

“It just shows what is the trend now of the air strikes from the coalition”, said Hassan Boucenine of the Geneva-based Doctors Without Borders.

Impoverished Yemen has been rocked by months of fighting between Huthi Shiite rebels and Hadi loyalists, supported by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, leaving thousands dead and many needing urgent aid.

Davutoglu said in a news conference Friday that a “certain amount of headway has been made” in negotiations with the United States regarding the two countries’ cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State. The deal provides the U.S. military with crucial...

Also Thursday, US officials announced they had reached a long-awaited agreement with Ankara to allow US airstrikes on Islamic State targets from a base near Turkey’s Syrian border, the Associated Press reports.