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To make the operations effective, deployment of ground troops is a prerequisite, and the United States has been exerting efforts toward this end by training local forces. Other estimates have put ISIS numbers even higher.

The U.S. has deployed F-16 fighter jets to Turkey to aid the air campaign against ISIS in Syria, according to yesterday’s report by NBC News.

The attack last week by fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the pipeline carrying Kurdish and Kirkuk oil to Mediterranean port of Ceyhan is part of a wider surge in violence by the PKK, targeting Turkish security forces and infrastructure after Ankara...

ANKARA, Turkey – Kurdish rebels detonated an explosives-laden agricultural vehicle Sunday at a military police station in eastern Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding 31 others, authorities said, amid a sharp escalation of violence between the government forces and the...

The leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition has accused Erdoğan of launching air strikes in Syria and Iraq to prevent Kurdish territorial and political gains, and of using the war against ISIL as a cover. And that’s the problem.

In another air operation in Bokriskan region of Iraq, the PKK’s “Sehit Dilan” battalion’s commander and four group leaders were killed, and 30 militants injured.

Turkey has seen a sharp spike in clashes between security forces and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the a wake of its campaign against PKK targets in Iraq in tandem with airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. It has also rounded up hundreds...

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens wounded Sunday in a suicide attack claimed by Kurdish militants, as Ankara kept up its air campaign against the rebels’ bases in northern Iraq.

ISTANBUL (AP) – Two assailants opened fire at the heavily-protected U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul on Monday, touching off a gunfight with police before fleeing the scene, Turkish media reports said.

Five people were killed in eastern Turkey on Friday in a series of clashes between security forces and Kurdish militants, part of a surge in violence that has put further strain on a fragile peace process between Ankara and the rebels.

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...

And last week, a U.S. effort to send newly trained Syrian rebels into the fight had an inauspicious start when the fighters were immediately attacked and scattered by an Al Qaeda offshoot.

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.

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”.