Syria–Turkey border

Air strikes killed at least five people in a village in the Syrian rebel-held region of Idlib on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported,cited by Reuters.

It said the death toll from the air strikes in the village of Tarmala, some 40 km (25 miles) south of Idlib city, was expected to rise. 

A civilian support worker for the Turkish Armed Forces was killed in a terrorist car bomb attack on a military convoy in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, the Turkish General Staff said late on Jan. 30.

A Turkish-Italian team has completed the first part of their seven-season-long excavation works in an ancient site in the town of Karkamış, located in the province of Gaziantep on the Turkish-Syrian border, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on July 14. 

More than half of construction of a concrete wall along the Turkish-Syrian border was completed, said the head of Turkey’s housing agency.

Ergün Turan, the president of Turkey’s state-owned housing agency TOKI, said half of the 511 kilometer-long Syrian border wall has been completed.

Tensions between Athens and Ankara seem to be bubbling ever more furiously under the surface as a result of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's successive revisionist statements regarding the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne that defined the country's borders with Europe.

The construction of a concrete wall along the Turkish-Syrian border will be completed in the first half of 2017, stated Turkish Defence Minister Fikri Işık, cited by Daily Sabah newspaper.

At present, a section of 270 km of the border fence has been completed. The fence has to protect Turkey from migrants and suspected extremists entering from Syria.

BELGRADE - Turkish forces and Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State (ISIS / Daesh / ISIL / IS) terrorist group from the last areas of the Syrian-Turkish border under their control on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

European Council President Donald Tusk has praised Turkey's treatment of refugees, saying "it is the best example for the whole world." 

Turkey was on Feb. 27 closely following a landmark U.N.-backed cease-fire in Syria that came into effect at midnight in the war-torn country.

Turkish Air Force F-16s continuously patrol the Turkish-Syrian border with the cease-fire largely holding amid reports of some minor clashes and attacks.

Around one-third of a wall to be built along the Turkish-Syrian border in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanl? has been completed, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.