Syrian civil war

At least 43 civilians were killed and 150 wounded in a Syrian regime air raid targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northeast, a monitoring group said on Jan. 21, updating an earlier toll.
      

The passage of foreign fighters through Turkish territory aiming to join the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is the ?greatest threat to Turkey,? Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has said.

The leader of the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) has said Ankara?s Syria policy must change, stating that Turkey must no longer be a route for foreign fighters.

Ankara?s regional policy should remain at an equal distance from all religions and sects in the Middle East, CHP head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu said at the fifth Istanbul Forum in Istanbul on Jan. 19.

Iran confirmed Jan.19 that a general of its elite Revolutionary Guards died in an Israeli strike on Syria that also killed six members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
      
"General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi and a number of fighters and Islamic Resistance (Hezbollah) forces were attacked by the Zionist regime's helicopters," said a statement on the Guards' website.

Israel carried out an air strike in the Syrian sector of the Golan Heights on Sunday, killing six members of Hezbollah.

Among the victims is the son of Hezbollah's late military leader, a current commander and at least one Iranian, the BBC reports.

The members of the Lebanese movement were killed while completing a reconnaissance mission in the Syrian province of Quneitra.

At least 18 people have been killed in unprecedented fighting between Kurdish forces and Syrian government troops in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, a monitoring group said Jan. 18.
     
The clashes, which erupted in the early hours of Saturday, were continuing for a second day, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
      

At least 35 Syrian soldiers were killed overnight when an army cargo plane crashed in bad weather in the northwest of the country, a monitor said on Jan. 18.
      
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the plane crashed after hitting electricity lines in heavy fog in Idlib province, a claim echoed by Syrian state media.
      

A South Korean has gone missing in Turkey near the border with Syria, a foreign ministry official said Saturday, following reports that the man had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
      
"The man disappeared on January 10 after he left a hotel" in the southern Turkish town of Kilis near the border with Syria, the official told AFP.
      

A South Korean has gone missing in Turkey near the border with Syria, a foreign ministry official said on Jan. 17, following reports that the man had joined the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group.

"The man disappeared on January 10 after he left a hotel" in the southern Turkish town of Kilis near the border with Syria, the official told AFP.

Jihadists have executed 17 men in recent days in areas they control in eastern and northern Syria to avenge a string of assassinations targeting their fighters, a monitor said Jan. 16.