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An undisclosed number of Turkish soldiers were killed on Sept. 6 in a major attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari conducted by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), marking a crescendo in a deadly stream of attacks since July.

Several Turkish soldiers were killed on Sept. 6 in a major attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari that has been carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, marking a crescendo in a deadly stream of attacks since July.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said 45 of its soldiers fighting rebels in Yemen were killed in an arms depot blast on Sept. 4, while five border guards from Bahrain died in the deadliest day yet for the Saudi-led coalition.
  

Israeli officials have clearly drawn a line between potential threats posed by Iran and jihadists against their country, putting at Tehran at the top of the list.

Escalating violence hit investments and the tourism sector in Turkey?s eastern and southeastern regions. Hotel occupancy rates have decreased from 85 percent to 30 percent and it has become impossible for exporters to find any truck drivers willing to transport goods, according to businesspeople in the regions. 

The speaker of Iran's parliament hinted in a US radio interview on Sept.3 at the possibility of a prisoner swap to free detained Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian.

Iran?s Supreme Leader said on Sept. 3 that he backed a parliamentary vote on a historic nuclear deal reached with six major powers and said sanctions against his country should be lifted completely rather than suspended, state television reported. 

Saudi authorities put to death a convicted murderer on Sept. 3, bringing to 130 the number of executions in the kingdom so far this year, according to an AFP tally.

One soldier was killed in an ambush staged by outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants in Turkey?s southeastern province of Hakkari on Sept. 1, a day after a police officer was killed in a PKK attack in the eastern province of Batman. 

The Turkish military reported Sept. 2 a Turkish troop was killed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in an ambush that occurred in Hakkari, a southeastern Anatolian town bordering Iraq and Iran.