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Dr Lizardo7/23/2015 9:13:57 am PDT

Meanwhile, looks like things are about to get hotter for the Da’esh filth:

Turkey will open up Incirlik Air Force Base, about 250 miles from the Syrian city of Raqqa, to U.S. Air Force operations against the Islamic State, according to multiple foreign news outlets. The move puts anti-ISIS coalition aircraft, which had been flying some 1,200 miles to strike Islamic State positions, much closer to the various battlegrounds, including Raqqa, the effective capital of the Islamic State in Syria.

The agreement that opened the base to strike missions is a few weeks old, the Turkish newspaper Hrriyet reported. “The two sides agreed in principle about the use of the İncirlik base in Adana during talks on July 7-8,” it said.

But a recent terror attack inside Turkey may have added a certain urgency to Ankara’s response to the Islamic State. On Monday, 31 people were killed when a bomb exploded in the Turkish city of Suruc. Turkish authorities have blamed the attack on a student, Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz, whom they said has ties to the Islamic State.

defenseone.com