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From the Liveblog of Monday, March 5, 2018

Turkey detains 4 IS suspects in probe of US Embassy threat

5 March 2018, 3:44 pm

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run media says Turkish police have detained four Islamic State suspects as part of an investigation into a possible attack on the US Embassy in Ankara.

The US Embassy is closed on Monday over an unspecified security threat.

The Anadolu Agency says police detained four suspects on Monday — all of them Iraqi nationals. Two of them were detained on a bus at a security check on a highway linking the Black Sea city of Samsun to Ankara. Two others were detained in Samsun.

Security is high outside the US embassy on Monday, and police search pedestrians before allowing them to enter a street where the main gate is located.

— AP

Policemen search people outside the United States Embassy in Ankara, on March 5, 2018, as part of security measures put in place after the embassy was closed to the public over an unspecified security threat. (AFP/Adem Altan)

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