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"Will Not Allow ISIS To Return In Any Shape And Form": Turkey
Turkey will not permit the Islamic State group to return, a presidential spokesman said Monday, amid fears its threatened offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria could bolster the jihadists.
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Turkey Says Ground Forces Push Into Syria, Kurdish Militia Says Attack Repulsed
Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria's Afrin province on Sunday, media cited the prime minister as saying, as Ankara stepped up artillery attacks on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan Says US Arming Syrian Kurdish Militia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of sending more weapons to a Syrian Kurdish militia in defiance of Ankara's repeated insistence it is a "terrorist" organisation.
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Blasts Hit Government-Held And Kurdish Parts Of Syria: State Media
Five explosions hit government-controlled areas and a city held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing several people, state media and a monitor said.
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US Lauds Fragile Respite Between Turkey, Kurdish Fighters In Syria
The United States welcomed an apparent pause in fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on Tuesday, both of them members of the coalition fighting ISIS, but it was far from clear that any truce would hold.
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Turkish Jets, Artillery Bombard Targets In North Syria, Claim Sources
Turkish warplanes and artillery struck targets held by the Kurdish YPG militia in north Syria today, security sources said, as Turkey pressed on with a cross-border campaign launched last week with its Syrian rebel allies.
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Suspected Kurdish Terrorists Fire Rockets At Turkey's Diyarbakir Airport: Media
Suspected Kurdish militants fired rockets at the airport in Turkey's main southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Saturday, sending passengers and staff scrambling for shelter, Dogan news agency said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Turkey Launches New Artillery Strikes At ISIS In Syria
Turkey's artillery shelled ISIS group targets across the border in Syria for the second consecutive day today, a senior Turkish official said, amid reports that Turkey-backed Syrian rebels are preparing an offensive against an ISIS-held border town in northern Syria.
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2 Women Stage Gun And Grenade Attack On Police Station In Istanbul Suburb
Two women opened fire and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus as it arrived at a station in an Istanbul suburb on Thursday, footage from the Dogan news agency showed. Television stations said there were no casualties.
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ISIS Truck Bombs Kill At Least 50 People In Syrian Town: Kurdish Fighters
A triple truck bomb attack claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant in northeastern Syria killed at least 50 people and wounded 80 others, a spokesman for the Kurdish militia that controls the area said on Friday.
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US Delivers Ammunition to Syrian Arab Fighters Battling Islamic State
The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling Islamic State in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a US official told Reuters on Sunday.
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Syria Kurdish-Arab Alliance Launches First Anti-Islamic State Attack: Source
A coalition of US-backed Kurdish militia and rebel groups has launched its first operation against territory controlled by the Islamic State jihadist group in northeast Syria, a spokesman said today.
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Turkish Military Struck Syrian Kurdish Militia 'Twice': Prime Minister
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said the military has struck Kurdish fighters across the border in northern Syria "twice".
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Syria Army, Kurds Push Islamic State Out of Hasakeh City: Report
Syrian troops and Kurdish fighters ousted the Islamic State group from Hasakeh on Tuesday, more than a month after the jihadists attacked the northeastern city, a monitoring group said.
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Turkish Army Returns Fire on Islamic State After Soldier Killed: Officials
Turkish forces returned fire on Islamic State militants in Syria with tank shells on Thursday after a Turkish soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a cross-border firefight, military and government officials said.
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"Will Not Allow ISIS To Return In Any Shape And Form": Turkey
Turkey will not permit the Islamic State group to return, a presidential spokesman said Monday, amid fears its threatened offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria could bolster the jihadists.
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Turkey Says Ground Forces Push Into Syria, Kurdish Militia Says Attack Repulsed
Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria's Afrin province on Sunday, media cited the prime minister as saying, as Ankara stepped up artillery attacks on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan Says US Arming Syrian Kurdish Militia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of sending more weapons to a Syrian Kurdish militia in defiance of Ankara's repeated insistence it is a "terrorist" organisation.
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Blasts Hit Government-Held And Kurdish Parts Of Syria: State Media
Five explosions hit government-controlled areas and a city held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing several people, state media and a monitor said.
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US Lauds Fragile Respite Between Turkey, Kurdish Fighters In Syria
The United States welcomed an apparent pause in fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on Tuesday, both of them members of the coalition fighting ISIS, but it was far from clear that any truce would hold.
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Turkish Jets, Artillery Bombard Targets In North Syria, Claim Sources
Turkish warplanes and artillery struck targets held by the Kurdish YPG militia in north Syria today, security sources said, as Turkey pressed on with a cross-border campaign launched last week with its Syrian rebel allies.
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Suspected Kurdish Terrorists Fire Rockets At Turkey's Diyarbakir Airport: Media
Suspected Kurdish militants fired rockets at the airport in Turkey's main southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Saturday, sending passengers and staff scrambling for shelter, Dogan news agency said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Turkey Launches New Artillery Strikes At ISIS In Syria
Turkey's artillery shelled ISIS group targets across the border in Syria for the second consecutive day today, a senior Turkish official said, amid reports that Turkey-backed Syrian rebels are preparing an offensive against an ISIS-held border town in northern Syria.
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2 Women Stage Gun And Grenade Attack On Police Station In Istanbul Suburb
Two women opened fire and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus as it arrived at a station in an Istanbul suburb on Thursday, footage from the Dogan news agency showed. Television stations said there were no casualties.
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ISIS Truck Bombs Kill At Least 50 People In Syrian Town: Kurdish Fighters
A triple truck bomb attack claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant in northeastern Syria killed at least 50 people and wounded 80 others, a spokesman for the Kurdish militia that controls the area said on Friday.
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US Delivers Ammunition to Syrian Arab Fighters Battling Islamic State
The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling Islamic State in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a US official told Reuters on Sunday.
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Syria Kurdish-Arab Alliance Launches First Anti-Islamic State Attack: Source
A coalition of US-backed Kurdish militia and rebel groups has launched its first operation against territory controlled by the Islamic State jihadist group in northeast Syria, a spokesman said today.
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Turkish Military Struck Syrian Kurdish Militia 'Twice': Prime Minister
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said the military has struck Kurdish fighters across the border in northern Syria "twice".
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Syria Army, Kurds Push Islamic State Out of Hasakeh City: Report
Syrian troops and Kurdish fighters ousted the Islamic State group from Hasakeh on Tuesday, more than a month after the jihadists attacked the northeastern city, a monitoring group said.
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Turkish Army Returns Fire on Islamic State After Soldier Killed: Officials
Turkish forces returned fire on Islamic State militants in Syria with tank shells on Thursday after a Turkish soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a cross-border firefight, military and government officials said.
