Syria

The motion brought to Parliament by the government is not aimed at broadening the struggle against terror, but is directed against Syria itself, according to CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu

US-led air strikes near the Syrian town of Raqqa wounded a Croatian citizen named as 27-year-old Dora Bilic and killed her Bosnian companion, Fatima Mahmutovic.

Zagreb born Bilic reportedly converted to Islam while in London and went to Syria in 2012 alongside her husband.

Croatian media reports say that two oil and gas fields owned by INA, 250 kilometres from Damascus in Syria, have been occupied by Islamic State fighters.

The two fields, Mazrur and Jazal, are a part of a 4,500-square-kilometre oil-gas bloc that had been under the management of the Syrian state company Hayan Petroleum Company.

Turkey's Parliament on Oct. 2 began debating a government request to grant authorization to the Turkish Armed Forces to combat jihadists in Syria and Iraq and to open its bases to foreign troops.

After being stopped in front of Kirkuk with the combination of the resistance from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and U.S. air strikes, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has carried the fighting into Syria

The Turkish government will seek support from lawmakers today for a mandate to authorize the army to send troops into Iraq and Syria to deal with the growing threat of extremist jihadists

The number of undocumented immigrants entering Greece is expected to triple by the end of the year, Merchant Marine Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said Wednesday, blaming mounting strife in Syria for the growing influx.

Some 30,000 migrants are expected to have entered Greece illegally by the end of 2014, up from 9,000 in 2013, Varvitsiotis told a parliamentary committee.

BELGRADE - Kosovo's Deputy Minister of Interior Sasa Rasic has said that the situation with Kosovo citizens going off to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was very dangerous.

Two non-governmental organizations appealed to the public on Wednesday to donate clothing and food to help dozens of refugees from war-torn Syria who have flooded into Thessaloniki over the past few weeks.

Two of Turkey's opposition parties have announced objections to the motion authorizing the army to conduct cross-border operations in Iraq and Syria