Spillover of the Syrian Civil War

A view of Mont Bental in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on Jan. 20. Israel's military said its air defense systems intercepted a rocket fired from Syria on Jan. 20.

Turkey has improved its border security with an additional application on some 40-kilometer (24-mile) part of "Turkish Wall" along its border with Syria.

The police in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have identified the main suspect of killing two Turkish students on Dec. 31 and told the Turkish counterparts that he went back to Turkey after the incident.

A Turkish general who was in charge of commanding operations inside Syrian territories has been appointed to a new post at the Turkish General Staff Headquarters, according to a presidential decree.

Turkey sent military reinforcements to its southern Gaziantep province near Syrian border on Saturday, according to Anadolu Agency correspondent in the area.

Belgium on Nov. 29 thanked Turkish officials for reuniting a Belgian girl -kidnapped by her father and held in isolation in Syria- with her mother after two years.

A five-year-old Syrian child was killed and 26 others were injured when a bus carrying Syrian migrant workers crashed on Nov. 23 in the southern province of Antalya.

Officials work on one of the scenes of twin car bomb attacks in the town of Reyhanlı near the Turkish-Syrian border in this file photo dated May 12, 2013.

Russia claimed that its S-300 defense system will be able to close parts of the Syrian airspace "where necessary", a Russian Foreign Ministry director said in a news conference on Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to continue combatting Iranian "entrenchment" in Syria and coordinating with Russia after the downing of one of Moscow's planes.