
The US-led coalition “bombing the ISIL group” in Syria and Iraq said Thursday that 54 civilians had been “inadvertently killed” in seven air strikes between March and October. The announcement brings the official coalition tally of civilians killed to 173 since the “anti-ISIL” campaign began in the fall of 2014 ...

Two Turkish soldiers are missing in Syria, the Turkish army said late on Tuesday. “Contact was lost with two of our soldiers,” the Turkish army said in a statement. Earlier the Amaq news agency affiliated with ISIL claimed that it had taken the pair hostage in northern Syria.