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A military convoy sent by Ankara transporting Turkish-backed Syrian fighters and military vehicles arrives in the Turkish town of Akcakale near the Syrian border, a day after president Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched an offensive in northern Syria. IMAGES
A military convoy sent by Ankara transporting Turkish-backed Syrian fighters and military vehicles arrives in the Turkish town of Akcakale and heads to the Syrian border, a day after president Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched an offensive in northern Syria. IMAGES
US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Turkey for critical talks with its leadership as Ankara launches a military operation to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town. IMAGES.
Turkish shelling killed 55 Islamic State insurgents in northern Syria on Saturday evening in retaliation for weeks of rocket attacks on a Turkish border town. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration).
Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES
Images of rescue efforts in the northern suburbs of Gaziantep, southern Turkey, where hundreds of people stand before the ruins of a collapsed building, waiting for news of their missing loved ones. An ambulance stands ready to take evacuees from the rubble. IMAGES