Turkey takes off gloves in battle against ISIS;
Iraqi forces attack Islamic state base in Ramadi;
Iran accuses Bahrain of stoking Gulf tensions;
Fighting continues in Yemen as ceasefire quickly unravels;
Kyrgyz leader says U.S. 'sought chaos' by decorating dissident
Iranian air defense improvements?;
Russia expands electronic warfare capability;
Defending Israeli airliners;
Russia incorporates blimp-based missile defense radar;
Turkey's indigenous defenses mature;
North Korea improves missiile launch capabilities
Russia seizes the Iran opportunity;
How the Kremlin sees the world
The Kremlin targets civil society, science;
The plight of Crimea's Tatars
Don’t forget what's really at stake for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
On December 17, 2013, the Financial Crimes and Battle Against Criminal Incomes department of the Istanbul Security Directory detained 47 people, including a number of high-level officials. The sons of the minister of the Interior, the minister of Economy, and the minister of Urban Planning were implicated, as was Erdogan's own son, Bilal, with all three ministers handing in resignations.