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The United States and Turkey will launch a “comprehensive” air campaign to flush Daesh fighters from a designated safe zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Reuters reported.

Addressing locally-elected heads of Turkish villages and neighborhoods at the Presidential Palace in the capital Ankara Wednesday, Erdogan said: “Unfortunately, Turkey could not meet a new government because no results were obtained in the [coalition] talks”.

The attack comes amid renewed violence between the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and Turkey’s security forces.

The Turkish government has censured the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for airing a report on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), saying the news organization is “overtly” supporting “terrorism”. Instead of allowing the Republican...

He said he would confer with the speaker of parliament to make the call after the 45-day period to form a government ends Sunday night.

Prime minister Ahmet Davutolgu was in the capital Ankara as reports of the attack emerged and did not interrupt a speech being broadcast on live television.

A new Islamic State video is taking aim at Turkey, issuing a call to arms to “conquer Istanbul”.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was on Tuesday set to formally acknowledge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he can not form a coalition government, paving the way for new elections just months after the June polls.

The country’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu then announced that his Justice and Development (AK) Party’s negotiations with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) ended without an agreement to form a coalition government.

A US drone had last week executed a single lethal airstrike against an ISIS target 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.

If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decides to call for an early election in Turkey, the country will go to polls in late October, the daily said.

Under the terms of the constitution, if no government is formed by August 23, Erdoğan must dissolve Davutoğlu’s caretaker cabinet and call on an interim power-sharing government to lead Turkey to a new election in the autumn.

Warplanes pounded 17 targets in the province of Hakkari on Monday and Tuesday, the military said, part of a renewed crackdown on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy.

Missouri The United States presented its first manned air strikes against Islamic State manages from the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey on Wednesday, the You can introduce.S. navy said.

“These abhorrent actions underscore that the Assad regime has lost legitimacy and that the global community must do more to enable a genuine political transition”, said the statement.