Syria

A Syrian rebel alliance has pushed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group jihadists further away from one of its key supply routes from neighbouring Turkey, a monitoring group said June 13. 
 

Bulgarian Economy Minister Bozhidar Lukarski assured on Saturday that the country does not export and does not allow for weapons to be exported from its territory to Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 13 met Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdo?an for talks expected to touch on energy issues and the Syria crisis, Russian news agencies reported.
 
The two leaders met a day after attending the opening ceremony of the inaugural European Games, hosted by Azerbaijan and tainted by controversy over the ex-Soviet country?s rights record.

The night of June 7 was pleasantly surprising for many Turks that I know - and myself. The results of the general election showed that the 13-year-long reign of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which was quite clean and liberating in its initial phase but later turned increasingly corrupt and authoritarian, finally faced a setback.

Syria is in the list of countries that Bulgaria is not allowed to export weapons to according to the Bulgarian legislation.

U.S. State Department spokesperson Jeff Rathke said his country and Turkey have a good partnership in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as he spoke during a June 10 press conference, following fresh remarks by American President Barack Obama, who said Turkey has not have not fully ramped up the capacity of its anti-foreign fighter efforts. 

Bosnian fighters returning from Syria and Iraq are forming regional militant networks that pose a direct threat to security in the Balkans and beyond, a study warned on June 11.

To outsiders this was a 2018 World Cup qualifier. To fans of Afghanistan and Syria who watched it live, however, it was much more than a football match.
 
With both countries wracked by war FIFA has barred them from hosting home games, making native supporters hard to come by in a slew of neutral venues and consequently dulled atmospheres.
 

Hundreds of third country nationals continued, on a daily basis, to land or reach close enough to several of Greece’s eastern Aegean islands in order to attract the attention of the coast guard and be escorted to Greek territory.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry's spokesman has denied allegations of Turkey sending weapons to Syria and allowing the crossing of fighters into the war-torn country.

Stressing that Turkey's position on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) "is clear," spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said the allegations were "slanderous" and part of a "defamation campaign."