U.S. Urges Turkey to Seal Border

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A bigger Turkish border deployment would close off key transit routes for ISIS fighters in Syria, U.S. officials say

By Adam Entous and
Gordon Lubold in Washington, and
Dion Nissenbaum in Istanbul
Updated Nov. 27, 2015 8:34 p.m. ET

The Obama administration is pressing Turkey to deploy thousands of additional troops along its border with Syria to cordon off a 60-mile stretch of frontier that U.S. officials say is used by Islamic State to move foreign fighters in and out of the war zone.

The U.S. hasn’t officially requested a specific number of soldiers. Pentagon officials

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