Turkey has taken two major steps to escalate the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State following Monday’s deadly suicide bomb attack in the Turkish city of Suruc. The Turkish government agreed Thursday to allow the United States to use two of the country’s air bases, a move that one Obama administration official told The New York Times was a “game changer.” Turkish forces also carried out the country’s first direct attacks against the self-proclaimed Islamic State, shelling militants along the Turkish-Syria border and launching airstrikes against targets in Syria. Meanwhile, Turkish police detained more than 250 people in Turkey this morning in raids targeting both suspected ISIL members and suspected Kurdish militants.