President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he expected concrete steps from allies in support of Turkey’s counter-terrorism fight after a weekend bomb attack in Ankara, for which a Kurdish militant group claimed responsibility. Erdogan was speaking after Turkish police staged raids across the country on Tuesday, detaining dozens of suspects …
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US Central Command captures Islamic State official in Syria raid – statement
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 …
Read More »PKK claims bomb attack in Turkey’s capital that injured 2 police officers
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 …
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