Syrian Army

Last week, a ?rocket or missile,? probably a Scud, fired by the Syrian army, exploded in the Turkish border town of Reyhanl?, damaging a few buildings and military vehicles and leaving a 15-meter-wide crater, luckily leaving no casualties behind. 

Questions are being raised after Patriot batteries placed in three Turkish provinces by NATO failed to prevent a Syrian missile from hitting Turkey.

Turkey has pounded a Syrian artillery unit near the border in reprisal for cross-border fire that injured five Turkish civilians and damaged a military base, the Turkish military announced on March 25.

Syria's military shot down a U.S. drone over the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state media said March 17.

Mete Yarar is a former member of the Turkish armed forces. As a member of the Special Forces Command, he was last on duty in Iraq, before leaving the army of his own will in 2004. Ever since, he has been working as a security consultant, and he frequently appears on television as a political and security expert.

A monitoring group said the Syrian army lost control of a second strategic base in the northwestern province of Idlib to coordinated assaults by Islamist groups on Dec. 15.
      

Some 230 Peshmerga forces of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have been trained by Turkish soldiers so far in northern Iraq, a senior Turkish Foreign Ministry official has told the Hürriyet Daily News.

Turkey has been providing “subsidiary” military training for the Peshmerga forces and the process will continue for as long as necessary, according to the official.

Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander Jamal Marouf, who has confirmed his presence in Turkey, has said the danger of losing the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo has eased slightly, but warned that risks remain in the city that is deemed crucial by Turkey.