Syrian civil war

Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Necdet Özel, along with other top commanders, visited the newly constructed Süleyman ?ah Tomb in its new located inside Syria on March 26.

A U.S.-led programme to train Syrian opposition forces to fight hardline Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, which was due to begin earlier this month, has experienced "a minor delay", Turkey's foreign minister said on March 27.
   

Britain will begin training Syrian "moderate opposition forces" in Turkey and other regional countries within weeks as part of its efforts to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced on March 26.
      

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

Military officials from Turkey and U.S. have agreed to deploy armed drones to Adana?s ?ncirlik airbase to help in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).

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.

The Syrian people feel “abandoned by the whole world”, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, as the international community focuses on the ISIS threat.

In its 13th monthly report on Syria towards the UN Security Council, the UN chief mentions that no one has answered for the war crimes in Syria over the four years of civil war.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has trained more than 400 children in Syria as fighters in 2015 alone, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said March 24.
      

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters attacked a military airport in Syria's Homs province on March 23 as they pushed on with an offensive against government strongholds towards the west, a monitoring group said.
   

Former wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Saja al-Dulaimi is to be set free from the maximum security prison she is being held in just outside Beirut.