Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag on Tuesday urged Washington to extradite the alleged July coup mastermind Fethullah Gulen to avoid damaging bilateral ties, comparing him to slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. Turkey wants the US-based preacher to be sent home to face charges of “ordering the July 15 failed ...
The United States has begun planning an offensive to liberate Raqqa from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, and Russia will not be a member of the operation, US Defense Secretary Carter said. “Russia is not a participant in our Raqqa plan,” Carter told ...