Irregular military

A couple sought with an Interpol red notice over alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was arrested in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on March 1, citing security sources. 

A group calling itself Armed Revolutionary Struggles has claimed responsibility for a grenade attack a police station in the Athens suburb of Kaisariani in the early hours of Monday, in which a bystander was lightly injured.

The decision of Interpol to remove former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK) from their wanted list has angered Serbia who complained at the Executive Committee of Interpol asking the warrants filed by them not be erased.

The Turkish General Staff said in a statement on March 1 that four Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have been “neutralized” in air strikes, launched after the militants opened fire at military posts.

The first of the three technical committees of Turkey and the U.S., formed to solve issues between the two countries, will meet on March 8-9 in Washington, according to Turkish authorities on Tuesday, Daily Sabah reported.

A total of 31 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were “neutralized” in counter-terrorism operations across Turkey on Feb. 19-26, the Interior Ministry stated on Feb. 26.

Sixteen Turkish women were sentenced to death in Iraq because membership in the Islamic State terrorist organization, Reuters and TASS reported, referring to the judiciary. The penalties are to be enforced by hanging.

Two major Islamist rebel groups operating in northern Syria are uniting, the France press reported.

"We, Ahhar al-Sham, and Nuredin al Zinki, declare our fusion the name of the Syrian Liberation Front," says a message of the two groups operating in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.

SARAJEVO - A skull-and-bones poster with the message "Chetnik bone-throwers" was put up at the entrance to the Serbian embassy in Sarajevo on Wednesday.

Serbian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Stanimir Vukicevic said the incident had taken place between 5.30 pm and 6.00 pm, after which the police were called and took the poster to examination, the Fokus.ba portal reported.

Ahead of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to Ankara on Thursday and Friday, Anadolou Press Agency claimed in a tweet that "the US lost Turkey's trust by supporting and strengthening the PYD/PKK and FETO terrorist groups that threaten Turkey's security and well-being."