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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 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.

U.S.-backed rebels say members of al-Qaida’s branch in Syria have launched an attack on their command headquarters, killing at least five fighters and wounding more than a dozen.

Spokesman Tanju Bilgic told reporters a cabinet resolution to allow the use of the base by coalition aircraft “has matured”, meaning Incirlik “could be used any time, whenever needed”.

Kurdish militants have raided a Turkish police station and fired on railway workers in two separate attacks, leaving five people dead.

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.

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 condemn this bombardment that led to the martyrdom of people from the Kurdistan region and call on Turkey not to bombard civilians again”, Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said in a statement.

“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.

BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say clashes between members of al-Qaida’s branch in Syria and a rebel faction in the country’s north believed to have been trained by the U.S. government have stopped after the rebels left the area.

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.

One of the PKK fighters was also reported killed in the fighting, and Turkish forces are conducting searches in the surrounding area trying to locate the rest.