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Turkey detains 13 IS militants suspected of plotting attack

AP  |  Ankara 

Turkey's state-run agency says police in the southern city of have detained 13 Islamic State suspects who were allegedly plotting attacks on a number of buildings in the city, including the says police detained the suspects Wednesday in simultaneous dawn raids at homes, using battering rams to break down doors at some locations.

Twelve of the suspects are Syrian nationals, the agency said. The raids came days after police in the coastal city of detained four Iraqi IS suspects while investigating a possible plot against the in the capital Ankara, forcing the American facility to close. suffered a series of deadly terror attacks in 2015 and 2016 carried out by IS or Kurdish rebels.

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First Published: Wed, March 07 2018. 16:10 IST
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