Turkey to let anti-ISIS coalition use its bases

Turkey to let anti-ISIS coalition use its bases
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Turkey has agreed to let members of the U.S.-led coalition use its bases for operations against ISIS fighters in Syria, American officials said Sunday. The Obama administration has called for Turkey to take on a bigger role in the fight against ISIS. Turkey is in negotiations to begin training several thousand moderate Syrian rebels to help prevent a massacre in the Syrian town of Kobani, which ISIS forces are fighting to take over. Read more at The Associated Press.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.