The international coalition battling the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) has resumed air strikes from a Turkish air base that were suspended after a failed military coup d'etat, the AFP reported Sunday (July 17th).
"After close co-ordination with our Turkish allies, they have reopened their airspace to military aircraft," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement.
"As a result, counter-ISIL coalition air operations at all air bases in Turkey have resumed," he said.
The Turkish authorities on Saturday imposed a security lockdown at the Incirlik air base in the southern province of Adana used by coalition forces in the fight against ISIL in Syria and Iraq.
The facility is 110 kilometers from the Syrian border and has been used to deploy aircraft in the fight against ISIL.
