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“And these are the Kurds“, Özdemir said.

“If America continues to back Turkey’s policies it is possible it will lose the Kurds“, he said.

The U.S. flag waves outside the newly opened U.S. Embassy, near a Cuban flag overlooking Havana’s seaside boulevard, the Malecon, in Cuba, Friday, August 14, 2015.

“I am not intimidated by you, sir, or by anyone else out there”.

Under the strategy, moderate Syrian rebels, trained by the US Army, will fight the militant group on the ground and help coordinate air strikes by the US coalition, launched from Turkish air bases.

They were right when they said our flag would fly again.

They cheered as Kerry spoke, the United States Army Brass Quintet played “The Star-Spangled Banner” and U.S. Marines raised the flag alongside the building overlooking the famous Malecon seaside promenade.

“We will continue to urge the Cuban government to fulfil its obligations under UN and Inter-American human rights covenants – obligations shared by the United States and every other country in the Americas”, Kerry said.

But it has launched more than 400 strikes against the PKK in and outside Turkey, he said. The government considers the PKK a terrorist organization just like the Islamic State, as do various Western countries.

In further violence, Kurdish rebels attacked an infantry brigade command post in nearby Sirnak province, seriously wounding a soldier who later died in a hospital. Turkish officials blamed the Suruc bombing on a Kurdish follower of Islamic State, and days later unveiled their...

Kerry will be the highest-ranking US official to visit Cuba since Castro’s 1959 revolution and the first secretary of state to visit the island in more than 70 years.

Earlier on Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry travelled to Cuba to take part in the US embassy reopening ceremony that marked the normalization of relations between the two countries.

For the first time in more than fifty years, an American flag is now flying outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana.

Most Americans, especially Democrats, approve of the U.S.’ restored relations with Cuba – a process further solidified Friday when Secretary of State John Kerry presided over the raising of the American flag at the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana.

Tester said he read the agreement, consulted with more than 20 experts and gathered input from Montanans before deciding to support it.