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Seven suspected Islamic State group militants and two policemen were killed in a gun battle in southeast Turkey on Monday as authorities hunt down those behind the Ankara suicide bombings.
Arab-majority Tal Abyad in northern Syria, which was seized from the Islamic State group by Kurdish militias earlier this year, will be placed under Kurdish regional control.
Comment: The AKP has chosen to follow a dangerous strategy, one which jeopardises Turkey's stability and which might affect accession talks - unless something changes soon.
The number of cholera cases in Iraq has risen to more than 1,800, with authorities blaming the outbreak on the poor quality of water.
The Iraqi judiciary has issued an arrest warrant for Trade Minister Malas Abdulkarim al-Kasnazani over corruption charges, months after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi promised to crackdown on graft.
Turkey's PM has said that authorities are close to identifying one of the suicide bombers who carried out the blasts in Ankara killing 97 people, focusing their investigation on IS.
A Kurdish militia, fighting the Islamic State group in Syria with the help of US-led airstrikes, has joined forces with Arab groups in a new military alliance, announced on Monday.
Thousands of people, many chanting anti-government slogans, gathered in central Ankara on Sunday near the scene of bomb blasts which killed at least 95 people.
Turkish activists are expressing outrage after a video and images surfaced on the Internet allegedly showing Turkish soldiers dragging a dead Kurdish man through the streets by his neck.
Comment: President Erdogan has increased the violence in Syria in a bid to win domestic political support, writes Derek Davison.