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The BBC’s Beijing correspondent says Turkey’s current border crisis may also give renewed impetus to its plans to buy a Chinese long-range missile system. On Monday, Syria’s main Kurdish militia and an activist group said Turkish troops shelled a Syrian village...

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 U.S. began conducting strikes from Incirlik with armed drones last week, Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters on August 5, while saying that operations with manned aircraft would take more time. The detachment is part of the 31st Fighter Wing based at...

He said the NSF in Syria still remain a viable fighting force capable of defending themselves.

The US Air Force has deployed a fleet of six F-16 fighter jets in a military base in Turkey in order to fight the ISIL terrorist group in Syria, according to the US mission to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

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.

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”.

Until recently, only reconnaissance drones took off escapades from Incirlik.

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.

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

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem was quoted by state television on Wednesday as saying Syria supported efforts to combat ISIL, provided they were coordinated with Damascus.

“We will soon launch a comprehensive struggle against Islamic State together, now that we are already seeing American warplanes and unmanned drones arriving in Turkish air bases”, Mr. Cavusoglu told reporters during a visit to Malaysia after meeting his Russian...

Officials said that so far, none of the drones had launched airstrikes, but they may begin soon.

Turkey, a member of the worldwide coalition led by its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally Washington, had so far declined to take robust action against jihadists but after a deadly bombing in July in a border town blamed on suspected IS jihadists, it launched limited strikes...