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BRUSSELS : United States ( US ) Defence Secretary Ash Carter , who was under pressure to shore up support from Arab allies to fight the Islamic State (IS) armed group on Thursday welcomed the commitment of Saudi Arabia to expand its role in air strikes against militants. In a gathering of defense ministers more than two dozen at NATO Headquarters, Saudi Arabia, which quietly resumed its air strikes in participation in recent weeks, also renewed the possibility of sending forces to Syria. "The defense minister of Saudi Arabia ... stated that the Kingdom relaunch its commitment to the coalition air campaign, which is very welcome news, and contributing in other critical ways on the ground," Carter said after the talks in Brussels. Carter, generally praising contributions from allies, said should win the US-led war against IS despite former Cold War foe Russia's role in the civil war in Syria on the side of the government of President Bashar Al-Assad. On Wednesd...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday threatened to send millions of refugees in Turkey, EU Member States, NATO pledged to deploy ships in the Aegean to facilitate migrant crisis. Erdogan to accelerate the termination of the western migration policy in a speech in Ankara, confirming had threatened EU leaders at the November summit that Turkey could say "goodbye" to refugees. Alarm is growing in EU capitals that thousands of migrants still crossing daily Aegean from Turkey after over one million the dangerous sea voyage last year. NATO agreed to send a naval group on Sea to fight people-smuggling feeding the influx of immigrants, while Greece is considering sending someone got in the water back to Turkey. Turkey, already house some three million refugees, it is also within the EU and UN pressure to take in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing regime advances the Aleppo region. Erdogan said Turkey had every right to peat refugees from th...