US anti-IS envoy visits Turkey after Syrian Kurds talks

The White House envoy coordinating the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group held talks in Ankara on Friday a day after visiting a Syrian Kurdish militia deemed by Turkey to be "terrorists".The visit by Brett McGurk, which was not announced in advance, comes a month after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for McGurk to be fired, claiming he was supporting Kurdish militants.US-backed Kurdish-dominated forces are closing in on the Syrian city of Raqa, the self-declared c