Syrian civil war

Turkey's General Staff has announced that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) opened fire with an anti-aircraft gun in ??rnak, while a suspected member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) surrendered with his weapons in ?anl?urfa, another southeastern Turkish province.

First of all, this was a ?cover-up operation? for ISIL, trying to whitewash its defeat in Kobane two weeks ago. By increasing the level of its barbarism and creating a much larger wave of shock, it was able to jog people?s memories again about its supposed ?invincibility.?

Another aim was to attract more jihadists from around the world by widening the horrifying effect.

Kurdish militants have wrestled control of 65 villages in Kobane's countryside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) control since Jan. 26 in northern Syria, according to a Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) source.

The General Staff has announced that five suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been captured in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep over the past week. 

At least 45 people were killed in Syrian government air strikes on opposition areas around Damascus Feb. 5 after rebels fired dozens of mortar rounds at the capital, a monitor said.
      
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least six children were among those killed in nearly 40 air raids on parts of Eastern Ghouta in Damascus province.
     

Jordan weighed its next move Feb. 5 against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after vowing a harsh response to the burning alive of a fighter pilot, whose family called for the jihadists to be "destroyed".
      

Jordan's King Abdullah vowed a "relentless" war against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on their own territory on Feb. 4 in response to a video published by the hard-line group showing a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive in a cage.
   

Turkey and Western allies need to be in full cooperation in order to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), former British Defense Secretary and a prominent member of the governing Conservative Party, Dr. Liam Fox has said.

?Turkey will be one of the big losers if we don?t deal with ISIL successfully,? Dr. Fox told daily Hürriyet in an interview on Feb. 3. 

The United Arab Emirates pulled out of the air campaign fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants after the capture of a Jordanian pilot who has since been killed by the extremists, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
      
The pilot was captured in December and ISIL militants released a video Tuesday showing the man in a cage being burned alive.

An Egyptian man has delivered a financial blow to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after reportedly becoming the ?emir? of its alms department before fleeing to Turkey with almost $1 million.