| Turkey to allow U.S. expanded use of airbase to strike ISIS in Syria |
Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:19 PM EDT |
| The United States and Turkey have reached an agreement in which manned and unmanned American warplanes will carry out airstrikes against the Islamic State from Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, near the Syrian border, Obama administration officials said Thursday. |
| The agreement, described by one senior administration official as a “game changer,” came after months of negotiations that culminated on Wednesday with a phone call between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Obama, another administration official said. |
| The development came as Turkish forces were reported to have engaged in the first direct combat with Islamic State forces on the Syrian side of the border. |
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Turkey to allow U.S. expanded use of airbase to strike ISIS in Syria
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