Spillover of the Syrian Civil War

"The Syrian Armed Forces will be supplied with the advanced S-300 air defense missile system within two weeks," Shoigu said, according to Sputnik, which reported that this would be "an adequate response to Israel's role in the downing of the Russian Il-20 plane last week."

AFP - Syria accidentally downed a Russian military aircraft with a crew of 15 onboard when its air defences went into action against an alleged Israeli missile strike, the Russian army said Tuesday.

The incident, which happened late Monday, was the worst case of friendly fire between the two allies since Russia's game-changing military intervention in September 2015.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the the Il-20 had been downed by Syrian military forces after Israel jets put it under attack off the Syrian coast. MoD spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov also said that the Israeli jets deliberately created a dangerous situation in Latakia.

A Russian military jet carrying 14 servicemen vanished from radar over the Mediterranean Sea late Monday as Syria came under attack by Israeli missiles, the defence ministry said.

Russia's Ministry of Defense said on Sept. 18 that the Syrian military had accidentally shot down a Russian military plane over Syria, but said it blamed the incident on Israel, the RIA news agency reported.

Russia's defense ministry said early on Tuesday that one if its military aircraft with 14 people on board disappeared from radar screens over Syria at the same time that Israeli and French forces were mounting aerial attacks on targets in Syria.

A teacher in the southern Turkish province of Hatay has been accused of selling the same car to 80 people before vanishing with the 50 million Turkish Liras he was paid in advance. 

Two teenage siblings were injured after ammunition they found by the Turkish-Syrian border exploded when they took it home to see what it was, Demirören News Agency reported on July 5.

Dutch authorities detained two suspected jihadist fighters on July 3 after they returned from Turkey where they had been sentenced for terror-related activities, prosecutors said.

Turkish military chief Gen. Hulusi Akar on June 29 visited military brigades stationed on the border with Syria, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.