The United States strongly denied on Wednesday a Russian claim that the Turkish government buys smuggled Syrian oil from the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group. A State Department spokesman admitted that there was a longstanding issue of oil being illegally transported to Turkey from wells in what is now ISIS territory. But he said the tanker trucks are operated by private smugglers, not directly by the ISIS terror group, and Turkey is working with its NATO allies to seal its border. "We reject, outright, the premise that the Turkish government is in league with ISIL to smuggle oil across its...