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Russian Federation is internet hosting the Saudi overseas minister for Syria-focused talks, a part of a brand new Moscow effort to mediate the battle.

ANKARA, Turkey – Kurdish rebels detonated an explosives-laden agricultural vehicle Sunday at a military police station in eastern Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding 31 others, authorities said, amid a sharp escalation of violence between the government forces and the...

ISTANBUL (AP) – Two assailants opened fire at the heavily-protected U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul on Monday, touching off a gunfight with police before fleeing the scene, Turkish media reports said.

Damascus could agree to join the worldwide coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) should it be requested, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Rossiya-1 television channel on Sunday, TASS reported.

And last week, a U.S. effort to send newly trained Syrian rebels into the fight had an inauspicious start when the fighters were immediately attacked and scattered by an Al Qaeda offshoot.

But a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation official said members also used the closed-door meeting to call on Turkey not to use excessive force in reaction to attacks, while urging it to continue with peace efforts.

The Pentagon has said that it does not know the location of its recently deployed New Syrian Forces, despite pledging this week to support them if they come under attack.

While the U.S. air campaign has conducted more than 4,600 strikes throughout Iraq and Syria, officials agree that some type of ground force is critical to permanently defeating the Islamic State. At least one of the U.S.-trained rebels was killed and others were wounded before...

Turkish warplanes on Wednesday pounded targets of PKK militants in northern Iraq, as parliament was to meet in emergency session to debate the government’s controversial campaign against Kurdish rebels and jihadists.

“We will do everything in our power politically so that peace and stability return to Syria”, said Iranian President Hassan Rowhani during a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Fox said: “I don’t think it’s healthy for the coalition against Isis that the United States is carrying out some 90 per cent or more of all the air strikes”.

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.

Three people have been killed and seven wounded in clashes between Turkish security forces and suspected PKK militants in the Kurdish town of Silopi.

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...

Shortly after the fighters were deployed they came under attack by al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate, the Nusra Front.