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A Europe-wide police unit is to be set up next month with the aim of shutting down social media accounts used by key Islamic State  of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants to spread propaganda and recruit foreigners to their cause, Europol said on June 22. 

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has arrived in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin Hollywood star and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has arrived in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin to visit Syrian refugees.

Turkish soldiers have detained five men from Syria, supposedly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, near the Akçakale crossing gate between Turkey and Syria.
 

An American fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria has been killed in battle, authorities said June 10, making him likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside them against the extremists.

Turkish authorities have detained and deported a 15-year-old Swedish girl before she crossed the Turkish-Syrian border, allegedly aiming to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

A group that had been trying to organize a protest against Syrian refugees in Turkey?s southeastern province of ?anl?urfa violently attacked three Syrians in an alley, before being dispersed by the police. 

The governor of the southeastern Turkish province ?anl?urfa has said he will not allow a group that was allegedly planning a protest against Syrians in the city to pursue the march. 

A building housing dozens of Syrians in Istanbul?s Ba?ak?ehir district was set ablaze late May 9, allegedly by locals upon rumors that a Syrian boy had stabbed a Turkish boy in the Güvercintepe neighborhood, which has been recently populated by Syrians who have fled the conflict in their country. 

A building used by Syrians in Istanbul?s Ba?ak?ehir district was set ablaze late May 9, allegedly by locals who had quarreled with the Syrians earlier in the day.

A couple and their four children from England, who were allegedly trying to cross into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have been detained in Ankara, police officials have told Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency.