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The majority of Syrian rebel fighters who have completed training by the United States are from the Division 30 group.

Turkish officials have said the aim in Syria is to push Islamic State away from the border and their operations will not target Syrian Kurdish groups.

At a Pentagon briefing, Davis said that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was reviewing the options that came with Turkey’s surprise announcement last week permitting the U.S.to use the Air Force base at Incirlik, Turkey, for strikes against ISIS in Syria, but decisions were...

The commander of the Iraqi volunteer forces fighting the ISIL Takfiri group says there is no evidence that Turkey has altered its stance towards the terrorist group and is still supporting the militants. A day later, another policeman was killed in a gun attack in Diyarbakir. The...

Davutoglu, a member of the ruling AKP, demanded that the HDP “clarify its stance towards the PKK”, an armed group considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey.

Ankara, earlier, said PKK attacks on Turkey made peace attempts impossible.

Uighurs share close linguistic, cultural and religious ties with Turks.

District of Gazi in Istanbul, on July 26, 2015.

Turkey has also denied, and is now investigating, allegations that their tanks recently fired over the Syrian border and killed members of the Kurdish YPG (also known as the People’s Protection Units).

Turkey, meanwhile, fuelled the growing anger of its Kurdish minority by shelling a Kurdish-held village in northern Syria while its warplanes continued to pound Kurdish targets in northern Iraq.

Security forces has detained at least 15 people suspected of links to the Islamic State gr… The graffiti on the background reads in Turkish “Front”. The official insisted on anonymity because this person was not authorized to publicly discuss the talks with Turkey.

According to Turkish Press Office, US and Turkey will discuss to determine which military base to use to launch strikes on ISIS and PKK targets, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Saturday.

Davutoglu said in a news conference Friday that a “certain amount of headway has been made” in negotiations with the United States regarding the two countries’ cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State. The deal provides the U.S. military with crucial...

Turkey had been reluctant to join U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group.

Also Thursday, US officials announced they had reached a long-awaited agreement with Ankara to allow US airstrikes on Islamic State targets from a base near Turkey’s Syrian border, the Associated Press reports.