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The Istanbul Police Department warned of possible attacks on public transportation after Turkey began bombing the Islamic State group.

Turkey launched several cross-border strikes against ISIS after a suicide bomber killed 32 people in the town of Suruc last week.

Violence in Turkey has been on the rise in recent weeks amid raids against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq.

Senior officials from the U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State forces will meet in Canada this week to discuss how to improve the effectiveness of the campaign, sources said Monday.

The plan to establish a buffer zone on the Turkish border will count on the cooperation of other rebel groups.

The United States' plan to aid Turkey in its fight against the Islamic State will likely draw Russia and Iran's ire.

The provision seems broad and even vague, allowing simply for consultations when a NATO member feels threatened.

Turkish armed forces launched new airstrikes Sunday against the Kurdish militants in northern Iraq just as a NATO meeting was convening.

"Instead of targeting [ISIS] terrorists’ occupied positions, Turkish forces attack our defenders' positions," Kurdish armed forces said.

Libyan leaders say they could defeat Islamic State militants by the end of the year if the U.N. Security Council would lift its arms embargo.

After a terrorist attack that killed 32 people in Suruc, Turkey, the country called for a summit that is to be attended by ambassadors of all 28 NATO allies.

Fighting has intensified in the central Iraqi city in recent days.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif began a one-day, three-country tour by visiting Kuwait. He is set to go on to Qatar and Iraq.

The masked killer reportedly fears the Islamic State group will drop him “like a stone or worse if they feel he is no longer of any use to them."

The Islamic State group is believed to have forced more than 1,100 child soldiers into its ranks since the beginning of this year.

The country has passed tough new terrorism laws, some of which target its nationals who join proscribed groups such as the Islamic State organization.

Ground forces hit the PKK as well as Islamic State fighters in northern Syria, government sources said, as part of Ankara's campaign to take a prominent role in the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamist militant group.

Kurdish activists have held the Turkish government accountable for recent violence in Turkey. And now they're retaliating.

An article titled "Fatwa on Meat Products Coming From Turkey" appears in a Turkish magazine that supports the Islamic State group.

"If you run across them, slaughter them," the cleric commanded Muslims in a column about the Islamic State.

Australia is on high alert for attacks by radicalized Muslims, including home-grown militants returning from fighting in the Middle East.