Middle East

Turkey arrests 100 ISIS suspects in raids in 6 provinces

Turkey arrested more than 40 Iraqis, around 20 Syrians and a Moroccan and other ISIS suspects across six provinces in recent days

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US strikes Kataib Hizbollah militia targets in Iraq and Syria

US forces struck five targets of the Kataib Hizbollah militia that is accused of carrying out a deadly attack on US and Iraqi forces near Kirkuk

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Turkey will not pull out of Idlib observation posts in Syria, Akar says

Turkey will not withdraw from its observation posts in Syrian rebel bastion province of Idlib which has seen an increase in violence carried out by regime forces

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Japan to send military assets to the Gulf but won’t join US coalition

Japan will send a military vessel and two patrol planes to help protect waterways in the Middle East but will not join a US-led coalition in the region

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Car bomb in Tel Halaf kills 5, latest in Syrian town captured by Turkey from YPG

Turkey's defense ministry announced that a car bomb killed a five civilians in northeast Syria, the latest in a series of deadly car bombings

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Israel strikes Hamas target after rocket launched from Gaza

Israeli warplanes attacked an arms plant in Gaza after Palestinian militants in the enclave fired a rocket at Israel

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Bahrain IEDs share components used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, report says

A new report found that IEDs recovered in Bahrain share some of the same Iran-made components used in bombs made by Yemen's Houthi rebels

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Iraq suicide bomber kills 7 Saraya al-Salam fighters

Seven Iraqi fighters were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a base of Saraya al-Salam near Samarra

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Fearing conscription into Assad’s army, Syrian Kurds flee to Iraq

Syrian Kurdish men in Iraq say they fled not only Turkey's military offensive but the possibility of conscription into Assad's army

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Rockets fired at Baghdad base housing US troops in new attack

Two rockets were fired at a military base near Baghdad airport housing US troops, the 10th such attack since late October, the Iraqi army said

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