The price of crude slipped following the failed Turkey coup as shipments continued through the vital conduit for oil from Russia and Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea.

Close to 50 civilians have been killed and many more wounded in missile attacks on at least five medical facilities and two schools in northern Syria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

Germany will pull two Patriot missile batteries, and 250 troops, from southern Turkey by the start of next year, after a reassessment of the threats from the conflict in neighboring Syria.

Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq and the government said strikes would continue until the rebels lay down their arms, despite calls earlier by the pro-Kurdish opposition for an immediate end to the violence and the resumption of peace efforts.

The parents of an American aid worker captured last year while delivering relief supplies to refugees in Syria said they are “heartbroken” by his death at the hands of Islamic State militants.

US aid worker Peter Kassig has been beheaded by the Islamic State group, it has been confirmed.

Rescue workers have been pumping water out of a coal mine in southern Turkey as relatives wait anxiously nearby after surging waters trapped 18 miners deep underground.

A coal mine in southern Turkey has collapsed, trapping 23 workers inside.

Turkey's Prime Minister says he will go ahead with redevelopment plans that have sparked nationwide protests.

Syrian forces opened fire across two tense borders, killing a TV journalist in Lebanon and at least two people in a refugee camp in Turkey on the eve of a deadline for a ceasefire plan that seems all but certain to fail.

The bloody conflict in Syria spilled across two borders today, killing a cameraman in Lebanon and wounding at least five people in a refugee camp in Turkey as gunfire flew across the tense frontiers, authorities said.

A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said.

A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday was attempting the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, the country’s state-run news agency reported.

THINK Turkey and the standard images of turbans, complex relationships with the Greeks and delightful sweets usually come to mind, often zooming into view on the back of a flying carpet.

Two people have been injured in a bomb explosion near a police station in southern Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency said today.

Sixteen people were killed and 25 others injured when a bus carrying Russian tourists skidded off a road in southern Turkey and plunged off a bridge today, officials and news reports said.

EIGHT bodies have been discovered in an apartment in southern Turkey, officials said yesterday.

Eight bodies have been discovered in an apartment in southern Turkey, officials said today.

A Turkish court today ruled that a German teenager accused of sexually abusing a British girl remain in custody until his trial resumes on September 6, a news agency reported.

An explosion in a rubbish container in the southern Turkish Mediterranean city of Mersin injured one person today.

Two bombs exploded within 10 minutes of each other in southern Turkey today, leaving several people injured, police said.

A passenger train rammed into a truck carrying farm workers in southern Turkey today, killing nine people and injuring at least 18 others, officials said.

An explosion in a car in southern Turkey tonight killed one person and injured one other, the Anatolia news agency reported, quoting a local official.

A freight train derailed in eastern Turkey after suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb on the tracks, officials said.

A freight train derailed in eastern Turkey today after suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb on the tracks, officials said.

After two years of construction, workers are welding together and testing with water the last few sections of an 1,100-mile oil pipeline that runs from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Turkey.

A bomb exploded today under a police car at a pop concert in southern Turkey, injuring at least 14 people, officials have said.

US warplanes struck an alleged hide-out where operatives from an al Qaida-linked group had gathered today killing at least 20 people.

A light aircraft carrying three tourists crashed in southern Turkey today. There was no word on casualties.

Turkish officials today quickly denied a television report that a suspected terrorist and three others were injured in a bomb explosion, saying instead that a Turkish tourist had been killed in a gas explosion in southern Turkey.

A suspected terrorist and three others were injured today when a bomb went off prematurely in the hands of the bomber at a small hotel in southern Turkey, private CNN-Turk television reported.

The US military has begun using a sprawling air base in southern Turkey for a massive rotation of troops for Iraq, a US official said, a sign of improved relations between United States and Nato-ally Turkey strained over the war.

Two bombs were thrown into the garden at the US Consulate in Adana in southern Turkey today, causing minor damage but no injuries.

THE key city of Basra is no stranger to scenes of civilian uprising against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein – or the bloody aftermath following the withdrawal of western allies.

After weeks of waiting off Turkey’s coast, dozens of American ships carrying weaponry for the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division have been redirected to the Persian Gulf, two US defence officials said today.

IRISH sun-seekers worried about war in the Gulf will lose deposits for holidays booked unless their destination is on the Government’s ‘danger list’.

A lovestruck 14-year-old who fled to Turkey to marry a 24-year-old barman she met while on holiday was expected back in Britain today.

British and American warplanes bombed Iraqi defence systems in the northern no-fly zone today after being fired upon during routine patrols, the US military said.

Anglo-American warplanes bombed Iraqi defence systems in Iraq’s northern no-fly zone today after being fired upon during routine patrols, the US military said.

England had the SAS of Shearer and Sheringham at Euro 96, but Turkey have their own at this World Cup in the form of striker Hasan Sas.

A US-British airstrike on a football field in northern Iraq has killed 11 people and injured 11, Iraqi authorities have claimed.

The US government is not planning to cut the number of troops in Europe, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday.

The crew of Turkish military transport plane died today when it crashed while on a test flight following the crash of an identical plane three days ago.