U.S. Central Command forces conducted a helicopter raid in northern Syria on Sept. 28 capturing Mamduh Ibrahim al-Haji Shaykh, an Islamic State facilitator, Central Command said on Saturday. Last week, the Central Command forces said it had captured Abu Halil al-Fad’ani, an ISIS Syria Operational and Facilitation official, who was …

The attack happened just as the parliament returned from recess and was expected to take on Sweden’s NATO bid. A suicide attacker blew himself up Sunday outside Turkey’s police headquarters, wounding two police officers in Ankara, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. A second assailant was “neutralized” in what Turkish authorities …

Turkish officials previously cited damage from February’s earthquakes as a reason for suspending operations Turkey is set to restart operations this week by on a crude oil pipeline from Iraq after being suspended for more than six months. Turkey’s Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told the ADIPEC energy conference in Abu …