Syrian civil war

Turkey's national defense minister on July 18 began an inspection of troops deployed along the country's border with Syria.       

Turkish jets have "neutralized" three PKK terrorists during counter-terror Operation Claw-2 in northern Iraq, according to Turkey's National Defense Ministry on July 15.           

In a phone call, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşogğu and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres discussed the U.N.'s signing of "an action plan" with the PKK/YPG, listed as terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU, diplomatic sources said on July 5. YPG is the Syrian offshoot of the illegal PKK.

Tens of thousands of civilians are being held in "appalling and inhumane" conditions in Syrian camps of the YPG- the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed PKK- leading to the preventable death of 240 children, said a U.N. official on June 2. PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU.

Turkey on July 2 strongly condemned the United Nation's "Action Plan" with the SDF, an umbrella organization manned mostly by terrorists from the YPG, the Syrian branch of the outlawed PKK.

An errant missile struck Cyprus early on Monday, skimming the densely populated capital Nicosia and crashing on a mountainside in what authorities described as a spillover from strikes between Israel and Syria.

The Syrian regime forces on June 29 targeted an area located near a Turkish observation post in Idlib, northwestern Syria, according to the Ministry of National Defense.

Turkish Red Crescent on June 28 lauded the aid efforts of the United Nations in the Idlib region, the northwest of civil war-torn Syria.

Turkish and U.S. defense chiefs exchanged views on Syria and the F-35 fighter jet project on June 26, according to a statement from Turkey's National Defense Ministry.         

More than 400,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, said an official from Turkey's Interior Ministry.