Syria

Turkey will allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross into Syria to fight Islamic State militants, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.

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Kurds fighting Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian town of Kobane have received US weapons and medical aid, the Pentagon says.

The move comes against the backdrop of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's declarations over the weekend that Ankara would not allow Washington to supply the Kurds with arms.

United States delivers weapons to Kurds in Syria

WASHINGTON -- The United States has announced it had air-dropped arms to rebels battling the Islamic State in the northern Syrian town of Kobani near the border with Turkey.

This is the first public admission that the Unites States is supplying the rebels with arms.

Press TV has described the accident in which its Lebanese-American reporter Shim died near Turkey's border with Syria as 'suspicious'

President Tayyip Erdoğan has added a fourth condition to Turkey’s full cooperation against ISIL as the “regime problem” in Syria.

Kosovo boy returns home from jihadist camp

Intelligence co-operation leads to boy's repatriation from an ISIL camp in Syria.

Erion Zena, the 8-year-old boy who was taken to a jihad camp in Syria by his father, was returned to Kosovo and to his mother on Wednesday (October 15th).

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Erdoğan and Obama spoke on the phone on Oct. 19 to discuss developments in Syria, including the situation of Kobane

Lebanon has all but closed its borders to refugees fleeing Syria's civil war, overwhelmed by an influx of over one million people displaced by fighting, UN and Lebanese officials said Oct. 18.

ISIL jihadists have executed a man in northern Syria they accused of filming their headquarters and displayed his body on a cross, a monitoring group said on Oct. 18.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that the PYD in Syria and the PKK are the same for Turkey.