Governorates of Syria

Just like their ancestors forced from their homes in Eastern Anatolia in 1915-16, the last Armenian families living in the embattled northern Syrian town of Kobane have fled after the repeated jihadist attacks - and they do not intend to go back. 

Turkey wants to construct more walls along its border with Syria to strengthen security against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and crack down on illegal border crossings, senior officials told Reuters on June 27.
   
Turkey shares a more than 900 km (560 mile) border with Syria, and much recent fighting has taken place on its doorstep.

Syrian Kurdish forces expelled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters from Syria's Kobane on June 27 and took back full control of the town on the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobane and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on June 26 as the second worst massacre carried out by the hardline group in Syria. 

At least 120 civilians have been killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group since it entered the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane just over 24 hours ago, a monitoring group said June 26.

A group of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants has stormed into Kobane, the Kurdish-dominated Syrian town near the Turkish border which they failed to capture at the start of 2015 after four months of deadly clashes, in a new bid to fight back a Kurdish advance.

Turkey on June 25 denied "baseless" claims that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants reentered the Syrian town of Kobane through the Turkish border crossing to detonate a suicide bomb.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters re-entered the Syrian Kurdish battleground town of Kobane on June 25, detonating a suicide bomb and battling Kurdish forces, a monitoring group said.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have destroyed two ancient Muslim mausoleums in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities director said June 23.

Kurdish-led forces advanced June 22 deep into territory in Syria held by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), showing new momentum after they unexpectedly swiftly seized a border crossing from the jihadists last week.