Syria–Turkey border

Turkey warned Damascus on Aug. 20 "not to play with fire" a day after a Turkish military convoy was attacked by an airstrike in northwest Idlib province of Syria.

Turkey "strongly" condemned an air strike on its military convoy heading through Syria's Idlib province on Aug. 19. Defense officials said that the attack was undertaken by the "regime forces" and was a violation of agreements with Russia.

A 12-vehicle military convoy, including armored vehicles carrying commando units and buses, arrived in the province's Ceylanpınar district as part of Turkey's recent military reinforcements along the border with Syria.     

Turkey's border with Syria

Archaeological excavations in Oylum Mound, one of the biggest of its kind in the southeastern Turkey, have unearthed olive seeds from 4,000 years ago. The seeds, found in Kilis along the Turkish-Syrian border, date back the time the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built.

A malfunctioning cannon part caused a deadly ammunition depot explosion earlier this month in southeastern Turkey, Turkey's Defense Ministry said Nov. 22.

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.

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 on Sept. 28 warned it will not allow jihadists in Syria to be sent to Afghanistan or elsewhere under a deal reached with Turkey that averted a large-scale military assault on rebel-held Idlib province.

U.S. President Donald Trump has thanked Russia, Iran and Syria for slowing down their offensive targeting Idlib province, while also thanking Turkey for helping to negotiate restraint.