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

Turkish fighter jets struck three Islamic State targets in Syria early Friday morning, a response to intelligence suggesting a likely attack from the group, government officials said.

The new “defensive” air power strategy was reportedly first implemented on Friday, when U.S.-backed rebels came under fire from al-Nusra Front, a group closely affiliated with al-Qaeda.

The drone strikes come after a deeply embarrassing incident last week when a group of rebels who had gone through the training program were captured nearly immediately upon entering the country by Nusra fighters.

The new flight missions from Turkey’s base come as the U.S. launched attacks against non-Islamic State forces for the first time, according to Davis.

At least two Turkish soldiers were killed and 24 others were injured in a suspected suicide attack in Turkey’s eastern Agri province early on Sunday, an official statement said.

Turkey, which launched near-simultaneous strikes against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in Iraq and Islamic State fighters in Syria last Friday, intensified its assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight.

Until about 10 days ago, the talk around Turkey was whether a coalition government should be formed before early August. The conflict with the PKK has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984.

Boxer recited a list of nations around the world that back the deal and said her Republican colleagues were being disrespectful. Everything that we have prevented will then start taking place, and all the voluntary rollbacks of their program will be undone, Kerry told the lawmakers.

The attack is the latest to be blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is engaged in an escalating cycle of violence with the security forces. The attacks ended a two-year cease-fire between the Turkish government and the PKK, effectively derailing a projected...

“We are used to this”. Washington and Ankara this week announced their intention to provide air cover for Syrian rebels and jointly sweep Islamic State fighters from a strip of land along the border, with U.S. warplanes using bases in Turkey for strikes.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said earlier that a “secure zone” would pave the way for the return of 1.7 million Syria refugees now sheltering in Turkey after fleeing their country’s four-year civil war. Then, Turkey conducted its own airstrikes against the...

Turkey’s air raids against the Kurdish rebels, which came at the same time as Turkey began cracking down on the Islamic State group, are reigniting a 30-year conflict with the insurgents and leave a two-year-old, fragile peace process in pieces. But their advance across...

Turkish jets again pounded PKK targets in northern Iraq in an operation Thursday that lasted two and a half hours, a government official said.

A United States Navy plane approaches to land at the Incirlik Air Base, in Adana, in the outskirts of the city of Adana, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The Americans have long coveted the use of the Incirlik air base whose vast size and key strategic location makes...