Briefcase 1 Turkey vowed to cleanse Islamic State militants from its border. Both of those attacks were blamed on Islamic State. ATTACK ON ISLAMIC STATE IN SYRIAOn Monday, Turkey's military launched howitzer attacks on Islamic State while artillery pounded Kurdish YPG militants in Syria, whom Ankara sees as an extension of its own Kurdish insurgency. For Ankara, Islamic State is not the only threat across its frontier. Some in Turkey, particularly in the Kurdish southeast, feel the government has not done enough to protect its citizens from Islamic State.

Source: India Today August 23, 2016 00:33 UTC