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As technical talks have been concluded, Turkey and the United States air forces can strike jihadists in Syria soon, Turkish Foreign Minister has said, but the White House has quickly denied it.

Turkey and the United States will soon launch "comprehensive" air operations to flush Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters from a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu told Reuters on Aug. 24. 

A total of 2,027 properties in Turkey were sold to foreigners in July 2015, marking a 37.6 percent increase from the same month last year.

"No one can set the price of oil. It's up to Allah," said Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi in May. But less devout people believe that Saudi Arabia has been trying very hard to set the price of oil - and to set it low. Moreover, it has been remarkably successful, because last week the price of oil was in the mid $40s per barrel, down from just over $100 last May.

MERS coronavirus infections have soared in Saudi Arabia ahead of the hajj pilgrimage, killing three people and forcing a Riyadh hospital to close its emergency ward, officials and newspapers said on Aug. 20. 

A Trojan named Gozi/ISFB has added nine major banks in Bulgaria to its list of targets, a specialized website has said.

In 2014 global defense spending increased for a sixth year in a row, according to a study by business analyst firm IHS. Defense trade rose by 13.4 per cent to 64.4bln US dollars. These are the countries the imported the most weapons and those that exported the most. The US tops the exporters of military equipment, followed by Russia.

Syria's main opposition group on Aug. 13 insisted President Bashar al-Assad must go and rejected calls to join forces against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists as it met with Russia's foreign minister.  

A senior Hamas leader is set to arrive in Turkey for a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, amid a flurry of regional contacts made by Hamas that has particularly intensified after the recent nuclear deal between Iran and Western powers.

Militiamen clashed with Yemen's dominant Houthi group inside the city of Ibb on Aug. 11, residents said, in their latest significant advance into territory the Houthis had held unopposed for months.