Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden next month visits Ukraine as well as Turkey, where fighting across the border in the Syrian town of Kobane has sparked tensions with Washington.

During the week of November 17, the U.S vice president travel on to Morocco and Turkey, where he nis expected to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The Pentagon has revised its estimate of the cost of the U.S. air war in Iraq and Syria, saying the price tag for the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) comes to about $8.3 million a day.

Serbia, region prepared to assist in fighting ISIL

The situation in the Middle East could change if Turkey and Iran cooperate on the Syria issue, Iranian Ambassador to Ankara Ali Reza Bigdeli has said.

“The common enemy ISIL’s presence is an opportunity to improve our cooperation with Turkey,” Bigdeli told daily Hürriyet.

Intra-Kurdish matters don’t concern Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-leader Salih Muslim has said, also again accusing Ankara of aiding Islamist militants by allowing jihadists to flow across the border It is incomprehensible why Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continues to meddle in the details of a security arrangement between Syrian and Iraq

Peace is there, the process is there, the resolution is there…

Those men, in such an environment, at such a time, cowardly and viciously fire bullets at three soldiers in plainclothes who were unarmed, who were strolling in the city center. There cannot be any lower act than this.

Does anyone recall the news last month of the government decree changing the regulation on the dress code in public schools, allowing girls as young as 10 years old to attend classes wearing headscarves?

It is already history. In a country like ours with such a huge agenda, where even as journalists we have trouble keeping pace with developments, this should not be so surprising.

The commander of the Turkish Air Force, Gen. Akın Öztürk, inspected a military exercise on Oct. 21 aimed at protecting frontier military posts, including the Tomb of Süleyman Şah in Syria.

The tomb has recently come into focus as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) made incursions into the region, according to both Turkish and U.S. officials.

Damascus has provided military support to Kurdish forces to help them battle Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Syrian media has reported, in a move that would mean President Bashar al-Assad and his Western enemies could be backing the same forces against Islamist militants.
   

Washington called Oct. 27 for the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to be extended to the Internet, as coalition partners met for talks on how to stop the jihadists' online propaganda.