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36 dead in Istanbul airport suicide attack

At least 36 people were killed Tuesday evening in a suicide attack at the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, the city's governor and media reports said. Two explosions hit the airport -- Turkey's biggest -- followed by gunfire, local television channels reported, adding that...

11 Kurdish rebels, 3 Guards killed in Iran

Eleven Kurdish rebels and three of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in clashes near the Iraqi border, the Fars news agency reported Tuesday. "A group of 11 counter-revolutionaries linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), who were attempting to infiltrate the...

Iraqi army closes in on Islamic State militants near Falluja

Iraq's army sought on Monday to eliminate Islamic State fighters holed up in farmland west of Falluja to keep them from launching a counterattack on the city, a day after the government declared victory over the militants there. Backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition, Iraqi artillery...

Israel and Turkey agree to normalize ties: officials

Israel and Turkey on Sunday reached agreement to normalize ties, senior officials from both countries said, to end a rift over the Israeli navy's killing of 10 Turkish pro-Palestinian activists who tried to sail to the blockaded Gaza Strip in 2010. A formal announcement on the restoration of...