Foreign-based militants linked to al-Qaeda terrorist network are using safe houses in southern Turkey to cross into Syria to engage in an insurgency war against government forces, a new report reveals.
Turkish forces have shot dead a seven-year-old refugee girl from Syria who tried to flee the deadly war in her country and cross the Syrian-Turkish border.
Turkey is witnessing a rising number of people heading to the south of the country to join extremist groups in their fight against Syria which the government in Ankara has been supporting for more than two years.
Al-Qaeda militants have cut off a 150-year old tree in Syria’s Atme near Turkey borders because they said people were worshipping it.
Turkey has seized a truck loaded with 1,200 rocket warheads and other weapons near the border with Syria, the private Dogan news agency has reported.
Syrian Deputy Foreign MinisterFaisal Muqdad says Turkey has let terrorist from 83 countries to enter Syria to topple the government.
Turkish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) parties have staged a protest along Turkey-Syria borders, denouncing Ankara’s decision to build a wall along the boundary line.
Al-Qaeda-linked armed groups have fought rival Syria militants near the country’s borders with Turkey in an outbreak of violence driven by the divisions between factions battling to rise to power in the Arab country.
A car bomb has exploded on the Syrian side of the main Bab al-Hawa crossing with Turkey wounding dozens of people.
Turkey has deployed additional troops and more weapons to the country’s southeast borders after Ankara said it supported a US-led strike against Syria.
Turkish army says it has fired back at militants shootings from the Syrian side of its borders.
Turkey has expressed concerns after a Kurd militant group with links to Kurdish militants in Turkey seized control of a Syrian border town after days of clashes with terrorist al Nusra fighters.
Al-Qaeda is planning to declare a government of its own in north of Syria in August, establishing a stronger base for the terrorist group in the war-torn country.
Syrian army has found several cars with Turkish number plates among equipments left by militants in the city of al-Qaryatayn in Homs province.
The North Storm operation is going on in Syria’s Aleppo, one of the most important strongholds for militants near Turkey borders.
Syrian army has blocked an attempt by an armed terrorist group to infiltrate from Turkey into the Syrian territories through Nabe' al-Mur village in the countryside of Latakia, a military source has said.
The Turkish army has returned fire after shots were fired at military targets from across the border with Syria, Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency reported.