Governorates of Syria

At least nine people were killed on Dec. 16 when a car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin, in the latest such attack in towns under control of Turkey-backed rebel groups, witnesses and rebel sources said.

Turkish Health Ministry opened a new health center in northwestern Syrian city of Afrin, which was purged of YPG militants in Turkey's Operation Olive Branch.

Turkey and Russia do not have a "serious problem" with regards to Syria's Idlib province, where the two countries are trying to create a sustainable demilitarized zone, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec. 2.

Air strikes hit the edges of Syria's last major rebel stronghold west of Aleppo on Sunday, a monitor said, a day after an alleged toxic attack on the regime-held city.

Turkey has urged the United States to complete the implementation of a bilateral deal that stipulates the withdrawal of all YPG terrorists from the Syrian province of Manbij by the end of 2018 and to expand the scope of the deal to the east of Euphrates River to avoid a confrontation between the Turkish and American troops.

Turkey's Special Forces Command and units from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) launched a joint operation in the early hours of Nov. 18 against a crime group in the Syrian province of Afrin.

Turkey's defense minister has voiced Ankara's objection to U.S. soldiers celebrating a veterans' holiday with YPG militants in Syria during his meeting with the U.S.' top general.

Turkey's defense minister on Nov. 17 blasted a photo of U.S. soldiers having dinner with YPG members in Syria.

A senior British general in the global coalition against ISIL has hailed the Turkish-United States joint patrol missions in the northern Syrian city of Manbij.

Syrian government forces killed 22 rebels near Idlib province on Friday, the deadliest clash to rock a buffer zone where a Russian-Turkish truce is to be enforced.