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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the strikes were “100 percent” successful and eliminated their targets.

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.

The fighting on the Turkish border came days after a suicide bombing believed to be by Islamic State in the Turkish border town of Suruc killed 32 people, touching off waves of violence.

“Although Islamic State has been held responsible for this attack, Turkey’s AKP government, by resisting the taking of effective measures to prevent Islamic State and other reactionary forces, bears the real responsibility”, the opposition Peoples’...

The state-run Anadolu news agency said a soldier was killed after shots were fired from across the border in Syria into the southern province of Kilis, with Turkey responding by pounding militant positions with artillery. His corpse, a rocket launcher and an AK-47 used by the...