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Additionally squashing any rumors, Mike Feldman, who worked as traveling chief of staff during Gore’s 2000 presidential election campaign, agreed with McManus, telling Politico that if “the old gang” was truly getting back together, he’s...

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.

Such was the power of the blast that houses in a village several hundred metres (yards) away were hit by debris and several villagers slightly injured, the Dogan news agency said. The account could not immediately be verified.

US drones had previously executed a single lethal airstrike in Syria but this was the first time manned US fighter jets had carried out raids after taking off from Turkey’s strategically located Incirlik base. Its use would enable the U.S. -led coalition to conduct better...

US warplanes on Wednesday carried out their first air strikes on IS targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, kicking off a key new phase in the campaign against the militants.

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.

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.

Another soldier was killed in an attack in neighbouring Agri province.

“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...

German newspaper Bild reported on Thursday that Islamic State fighters may have used chlorine gas shells in an attack on Kurdish forces in Makhmur.

“Despite our official announcement that we are not part of what is happening…the Turkish military monitors and targets our units”, the group said in a statement posted to their website.

The ISIS which has often boasted about enhanced weapons in its possession is believed to have used Mustard Gas against the Iraqi Kurd fighters last week.

“We were outraged. We had no idea who the Turkish fighters were, their call signs, what frequencies they were using, their altitude or what they were squawking (to identify the jets on radar)”, the source told Sky News.