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The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 11 times in the past day.
One soldier is dead, three others are in critical condition after stepping on a landmine. Ukraine’s military spokesperson also says there were about a dozen shellings overnight.
A car bomb on Tuesday struck a police vehicle that was carrying officers escorting seven recently detained Kurdish militants in the mainly-Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, killing three people and wounding 45 others, officials said.
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack in Diyarbakir’s Baglar neighborhood, but the state-run Anadolu Agency said it was carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, as the bus was passing by.
The Turkish military hit Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria on May 7, killing 55 ISIL militants.
Reconnaissance and surveillance vehicles spotted ISIL positions in the Suran region north of Aleppo and the Baragidah and Kuşacık regions northeast of Tal el Hişn, security sources said.
A radical Kurdish militant group on Sunday claimed a suicide bombing in Turkey’s former Ottoman capital of Bursa last week, saying the female assailant had failed to reach her intended target.
The attack on Wednesday evening near Bursa’s famed 14th century Grand Mosque wounded 13 people but caused no fatalities other than the female suicide bomber herself.
Turkish forces and coalition aircraft have killed at least 63 Daesh terrorists in northern Syria, a security source said Monday.
The strikes by artillery and armed aerial drones followed rocket attacks on Turkey’s southern Kilis province from Syria on Sunday. Eight people were wounded in two attacks launched from Daesh-controlled territory.