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Iraq?s prime minister will seek President Barack Obama?s help to acquire billions of dollars in drones and other U.S. arms to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a U.S. visit next week, a senior Iraqi official said. 

Gunmen killed two people and wounded a third in an attack at the South Korean embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on April 12 which was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
      
The gunmen opened fire on the embassy compound from a passing car, killing two people and wounding a third, a Libyan interior ministry spokesman told AFP.
      

Öztürk Y?lmaz, the former Turkish consul general to Mosul, who was taken hostage last year along with 48 others by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants for 101 days, has been appointed as an ambassador to Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe.

Turkey has slapped a travel ban on more than 12,500 suspected foreign fighters, and deported another 1,200, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has said, noting that 5,000 people have been put on a blacklist since January, when Ankara strengthened its efforts to stem the flow of jihadists to Syria.

Turkey has slapped a travel ban on more than 12,500 foreign fighters, and deported another 1,200, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has said, noting that 5,000 people have been put on a blacklist since January, when Ankara strengthened its efforts to stem the flow of jihadists to Syria.

The presidents and former presidents of Eurasian countries attending the 18th Eurasian Economic Summit have stressed the need for international cooperation in struggle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Turkey has hosted a working group of the coalition to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL), during which further measures to stem the flow of foreign fighters across the border were discussed. 

'Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide' by Thomas de Waal
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Turkish security forces arrested 10 foreign nationals on April 7 for attempting to cross into Syria, Turkish officials have said.

The suspects from Switzerland, Kosovo, Syria, Tajikistan and Russia were seized in the southern Turkish province of Gaziantep, the Gaziantep Governor's Office said in a statement.