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Yemen’s al-Qaida branch has exploited the chaos in this embattled country to capture three towns near the southern port city of Aden where pro-government forces have been advancing against Shiite rebels in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.

Wednesday saw U.S. warplanes deploy for airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, for the first time.

Citing senior U.S. officers, the Journal stated Islamic State might have obtained the mustard agent in Syria, whose authorities admitted to having giant portions of the blistering agent in 2013, when it agreed to surrender its chemical weapons arsenal.

Bilgiç said that the coalition aircraft flying from Turkish bases could target Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, but were not authorised to provide air support to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria.

Though sanctions have brought Iran to the negotiating table, they have never thwarted Iran’s nuclear buildup.

The Anadolu news agency on Saturday reported that 260 PKK members have been killed and between 380 and 400 wounded in the bombardments launched a week ago by the Turkish army on their positions in northern Iraq.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants attacked a military outpost and a police vehicle in southeast Turkey overnight, killing a policeman, officials and security sources said on Sunday, in further violence jeopardising a fragile peace process.

“As they continue to progress, they are building regional coalitions specifically with local Arab forces committed to defeating ISIL and expelling them from these lands”, Ryder said. The Assad government also tolerates US-led airstrikes over Syria on the basis that...

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

“Overstating the case for the agreement belies the gravity of the issue and does more to breed distrust than win support“, the former New York mayor, now reinstalled at the helm of his media empire, said August. 11 in a Bloomberg column. First, Iran is unlikely to...

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.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Tuesday poured cold water on Russian calls to join forces with the Syrian authorities against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, insisting it would never work with President Bashar al-Assad.

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.

The last police officer killed died in clashes near a police station in Istanbul in the northwest of the country. Elsewhere across Turkey, at least eight people were killed and a dozen injured in a series of incidents aimed at security and police officials.