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Saturday, 15 November 2014
Muslims found Americas before Columbus says Turkey's Erdogan
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Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
He made the claim during a conference of Latin American Muslim leaders in Istanbul, pointing to a diary entry in which Columbus mentioned a mosque...
Read moreTuesday, 21 October 2014
U.S. involved in seven air strikes on Islamic State targets
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U.S. military forces carried out four air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria on Monday and Tuesday and were joined by partner nations in three attacks in Iraq, the U.S. Central Command said.
Fighter, bomber and attack aircraft were used in the raids and all returned...
Read moreMonday, 13 October 2014
Turkey: No new deal with US on using air base
(AP) — NATO allies Turkey and the United States differed Monday on where they stand on the use of a key air base, with Turkish officials denying reports from the United States that there was a new agreement on its use for operations against Islamic State militants.
The impasse...
Read moreSunday, 12 October 2014
Kurds urge more air strikes in Kobani; monitor warns of defeat
(Reuters) - Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday.
A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces faced inevitable...
Read moreThursday, 9 October 2014
Turkey, Kurd tensions worry US in fight for Kobani
(AP) — Even as it prods Turkey to step up in the global fight against Islamic State militants, the United States is worried that Ankara might use military action to target Kurdish fighters who are the last line of defense against extremists trying to take over the Syrian border...
Read moreIslamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes
(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as U.S.-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces looked on without intervening.
With Washington ruling out a ground operation...
Read moreWednesday, 8 October 2014
Riots in Turkey kill 21 over failure to aid besieged Syrian Kurds
(Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed in riots across Turkey, the deadliest street unrest in years, after the Kurdish minority rose up in fury at the government's refusal to protect a besieged Syrian town from Islamic State.
Street battles raged between Kurdish protesters...
Read moreTuesday, 7 October 2014
Turkey: Syrian town poised to fall to militants
(AP) — Islamic State fighters were poised to capture a strategic Syrian town on the Turkish border, Turkey's president warned Tuesday, even as Kurdish forces battled to expel the extremists from their footholds on the outskirts.
The outgunned Kurdish fighters struggling to defend...
Read moreSunday, 5 October 2014
Biden calls UAE prince to clarify remarks on Syria
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(AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday called the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates to clarify that he did not mean to imply in his remarks last week that the Gulf ally was supporting al-Qaida fighters in Syria.
Biden spoke with Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, the crown...
Read moreFriday, 3 October 2014
Kurds call to arms as Islamic State closes in on Syrian town
(Reuters) - The main Kurdish armed group in Syria called on its kinsmen across the region to help it stop a massacre in the Syrian town of Kobani as Islamic State militants armed with tanks edged closer on its outskirts and pummelled it with artillery fire.
Islamic State's battlefield...
Read moreWednesday, 1 October 2014
Turkey vows to fight Islamic State, coalition strikes near border
Turkey signalled it may send troops into Syria or Iraq and let allies use Turkish bases to fight Islamic State, as coalition jets launched air strikes on Wednesday on insurgents besieging a town on its southern border with Syria.
The government sent a proposal to parliament...
Read moreSaturday, 27 September 2014
Islamic State defies air strikes by shelling Syrian Kurdish town
(Reuters) - New U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters failed to stop them from pressing their assault on a strategic Syrian town near the Turkish border on Saturday, hitting it with shell fire for the first time.
The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said the air...
Read moreFriday, 26 September 2014
Islamic State tightens siege of Syria border town; more Europeans join alliance
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(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters tightened their siege of a town on Syria's border with Turkey on Friday despite U.S.-led air strikes aimed at defeating the militants in both Syria and Iraq, in a coalition which has now drawn widespread European support.
Washington's closest ally...
Read moreWednesday, 24 September 2014
Turkish Leader Says World Not Doing Enough
(AP) — The president of Turkey on Wednesday accused the international community of doing too little to stem the flow of foreign fighters to Syria and slammed the U.N. Security Council's inaction on some of the world's most pressing issues.
In two separate speeches in New York,...
Read moreMonday, 22 September 2014
KERRY: US LOOKING FOR HELP FROM TURKEY AGAINST IS
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(AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States is expecting that Turkey will step up in the fight against the Islamic State group now that the country has secured the release of 49 hostages that were held by the militants.
The hostages — 46 Turks and three Iraqis...
Read moreSOME 130,000 SYRIANS REACH TURKEY, FLEEING IS
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(AP) — Some 130,000 Syrian refugees have reached Turkey in the past four days after fleeing the advance of Islamic State militants, Turkey's deputy prime minister said Monday, warning that the number could rise further as the militants press ahead with an onslaught.
Numan Kurtulmus...
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