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Police directors of Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Germany, meeting on Thursday in Belgrade, agreed to conduct more joint actions to stop illegal migrants and target the cross-border migrant smugglers.

Besides joint patrols on the borders of Serbia with Hungary and Serbia with Macedonia, modern thermal imaging cameras will be used.

Syria?s main Kurdish party warned Turkey July 1 that any military intervention would threaten international peace and said the country?s main Kurdish militia is ready to face any ?aggression.?

Meanwhile, a Syrian rebel group released a video showing 18 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants being shot in the backs of their heads.

Tunisian authorities have arrested 12 people they suspect are linked to the Sousse beach hotel attack on foreign tourists, and are hunting for two men who trained in a Libyan jihadist camp with the Sousse attacker, an official said. 

An article in German newspaper Die Welt claims that a Bulgaria-based cell of Islamic State is supplying jihadist militants with Bulgarian passports that allow them to travel freely in the European Union, Sofia-based 24 Chasa reported on Wednesday.

A U.S. Congressional Delegation focused on the U.S. mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Iraq and Syria held talks with both Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu on July 1.

The fledgling group of MIKTA, which includes Mexico, Indonesia, Republic of Korea (ROK), Turkey and Australia, nations broke new ground July 1, with the first meeting of their parliamentary leaders in the South Korean capital.

Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia formed the MIKTA association in 2013.

Turkish police has found that the seven suspects detained in an operation conducted in three cities on July 1 had fought in Syria for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while also recruiting new members for the jihadist group through social media.

Turkish police have detained seven suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) members in an operation in the Turkish provinces of ?zmir, Isparta and Erzurum, police sources said on June 1.

The United Nations cultural organization has condemned the ?barbaric assaults? the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group launched on World Heritage sites in Iraq and Syria, saying they may amount to war crimes.

Albanian police on Wednesday arrested Baki Coku, saying he was the subject of an international warrant issued by Interpol Roma and was suspected of belonging to an organization "whose goal was to carry terrorist acts.

"His arrest was carried out with the aim of extradition [to Italy] and was part of an international anti-terror operation," the Albanian police added.