Afrin

The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has neutralized Rıdvan Ulugana, a senior member of the PKK/YPG terrorist organization.

Ulugana, categorized as a high-priority target on the list of wanted terrorists, was responsible for the Shehba region in Tell Rifaat city, where he orchestrated numerous attacks against security forces.

Some 34 members of seven Syrian families, who have been residing in Istanbul's Esenyurt district for a decade, "went back home" with an official ceremony held by the local municipality.

Thanking Turkey for being their home, the families moved back to the Syrian cities of Afrin, Latakia and the capital Damascus on a bus on June 8.

Turkey's National Defense Ministry said on July 14 that 35 bodies were found in the northern Afrin district of Syria and the number of deaths might increase.

Turkish officials and international leaders condemned a terrorist attack by the YPG in Afrin in northwestern Syria that killed dozens of civilians, including children on April 28.

At least four people were killed in a car bomb attack in Afrin city of northwestern Syria on Feb. 10, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

An explosive-laden vehicle detonated in the center of the city, killing four civilians and injuring 15 others, some of whom are in critical condition, said the sources who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal.

Turkish security forces detained nine people in Syria's northwestern Afrin district for their suspected links to the PKK terror group, a local officials said on Sept. 17.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the Turkey-backed Operation Olive Branch into Syria's northern district of Afrin has eliminated "all terror groups" there.

Three civilians were killed and eight injured on Jan. 20 in a bomb attack in the northern Syrian town of Afrin.

A total of 150,000 Syrians have returned to Syria’s northern city of Afrin and life is returning to normal in the town in the wake of Turkey's “Operation Olive Branch.” Click through for the exclusive story in photos by İdris Emen, Fevzi Kızılkoyun and Selahattin Sönmez...

A historic house in Syria's Afrin region will be renovated and turned into a museum, southern Turkish province of Hatay's governor Erdal Ata said on July 7.