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Iran
Turkey not expected to revise Syria policy
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Iran
Iran confirms it carried out air strikes against Islamic State extremists in Iraq
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Iraq
Syria’s Assad downplays US strikes on Islamic State
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Iraq
White House Seeks to Clarify Syria Policy
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Germany
The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to ‘Holy War’
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Islamic State
Who is paying for America’s plan to train and equip Syrian rebels?
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Turkey
Turkish media reported that Abd El Basset Azzouz, a senior al Qaeda leader in Libya and suspect in the 2012 murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, was seized in a joint CIA-Turkish raid in Yalova on Nov. 13. Azzouz was reportedly moved to Jordan on Nov. 24 for extradition to the US. Thirteen members of the Turkish Youth Union were indicted for assaulting US sailors on Nov. 12. The US Embassy warned yesterday of reports that “extremist groups” might be planning to attack the Syrian Interim Government building in Gaziantep.
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Hamas
Turkey’s Hamas ‘bureau’
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Turkey
About 110 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters from Iraq will be allowed to transit through Turkey to replace 150 Peshmerga in Kobane, Syria. Military officials denied a report that Islamic State fighters had attacked Kobane from Turkish soil. Long-buried Turkish landmines near the border with Syria are said to have killed and injured a number of Syrian civilians fleeing Kobane. Following his first public speech since his release in July from 16 years’ imprisonment, Salih İzzet Erdiş, the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Great East Raiders Front, met with President Erdogan. In 2004 Erdis was sentenced to 20 years for making…
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Ahrar al Sham
Islamists come out on top in new effort to unify Syrian rebel groups
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Iraq
Syria says US-led strikes have not weakened Islamic State
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Islamic State
Pope urges solidarity to stop aggressors in Syria and Iraq
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Qatar
Qatar runs covert desert training camp for Syrian rebels
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Chechnya
Syrian link suspected in Chechen murder in Ankara
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Iraq
Turkey, US ease strains on Islamic State but differences remain
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Iraq
Turkey training Kurdish peshmerga forces in fight against ISIS
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Al Nusrah Front
ISIS tightens up its entry requirements
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Islamic State
Hagel: Taking out Assad ‘won’t put ISIL back in the box’
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France
The Lost Children: France Takes Stock of Growing Jihadist Problem
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Libya
Turkey’s role in Libya adds to pro-Islamist perception
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Turkey
Authorities today released 12 members of the Turkish Youth Union (TGB) who were arrested for assaulting three US sailors yesterday in Istanbul. The US Navy, Turkish national police, and the US Embassy are working together to investigate the incident. Authorities have arrested 386 people in connection with protests in early October against the Islamic State’s attack on Kobane and the Turkish response to it. Turkish and American officials met in Ankara to discuss the training and equipping of Syrian rebels.
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Turkey
Three American sailors from a NATO ship docked in Eminönü were assaulted by members of the Turkish Youth Union (TGB), who put sacks over the sailors’ heads, threw dye on them, and called the US troops “murderers” in a video of the incident released by the group. The US Embassy called the incident “appalling.” The Foreign Ministry denied reports that the Turkish Consulate in Mosul, Iraq was hit by coalition airstrikes yesterday; Turkey has refused to respond to allegations that the consulate has been used as an Islamic State headquarters since the group took it over in June. A journalist…
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Iraq
Central Command general to ISIS: We can hear you
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Iraq
Peshmergas blunt, don’t break, Islamic State siege of Syria’s Kobane
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Islamic State
Rights group: Child captives suffered ‘torture and abuse’ by Islamic State
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Iraq
For Turkey and US, at odds over Syria, a 60-year alliance shows signs of crumbling
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Denmark
Dane in Lebanon arrested for being alleged IS fighter
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Turkey
Turkish authorities claimed that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was responsible for the murder of three Turkish soldiers in Hakkari on Oct. 25, but the PKK denied responsibility. A Turkish officer was shot by masked men in Diyarbakır. An estimated 50 to 150 Free Syrian Army soldiers crossed over from Turkey into Syria to assist Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State in Kobane. A convoy of Peshmerga fighters en route to Syria was greeted by welcoming crowds in Mardin.
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Islamic State
Interview with an Islamic State Recruiter: ‘Democracy Is For Infidels’
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Iraq
Iraqi Peshmerga arrive in Turkey to head for Syria
