Turkey–ISIL conflict

An ambush organized by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has claimed the lives of three Turkish soldiers, the country's armed forces say.

PKK members opened fire on the ??rnak Görmeç Gendarmerie Battalion. The gendarmeries responded and an armed clash followed, Today's Zaman reports.

Five people died July 30 in new attacks on the Turkish security forces blamed on Kurdish militants, as Ankara stepped up its controversial campaign against the PKK militants.

A total of 190 militants have reportedly been killed in two major airstrikes by the Turkish military targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) bases both inside Turkey and northern Iraq, intelligence sources told daily Hürriyet, before 30 F-16s reportedly bombed PKK camps on July 30.

Kuwait has broken up a new five-member cell of alleged members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group one month after a deadly bombing at a Shiite mosque, the interior ministry said July 30.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Iraqi Kurdish President Massud Barzani have agreed that Turkey must continue the Kurdish peace process despite escalating violence, Berlin said July 29.

A Turkish police officer and a civilian were killed in a gun attack in the country's southeastern Diyarbak?r province early July 30.

Adana?s ?ncirlik airbase is ready to go as a launching pad for American strikes on ISIL following a deal between Ankara and Washington Turkey?s strategically placed ?ncirlik airbase in Adana is ready any time for airstrikes by coalition forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) now that a cabinet motion has gone into effect, a Turkish official has said.  

Syria's foreign ministry said July 29 it was sceptical about Turkish efforts to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in its first official reaction since Ankara began air strikes against the jihadists.

Turkey has been facing a "conscious, malicious and planned" escalation of terrorist attacks since the June 7 election, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said, adding that the country would respond to each incident of terrorism. 

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday that the Turkish airstrikes on PKK targets in northern Iraq constituted a violation of the country's sovereignty.

The Council of Ministers considered the airstrikes as "dangerous escalation and a violation of Iraq's sovereignty", al-Abadi said in a message on his official Twitter account.