Turkish Rebels

Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Wednesday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before starting a cross-border ground operation that could transform an eight-year-old war.

A day after Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies seized control of Afrin, a Turkish aid group started distributing relief supplies in the town centre on Monday, but residents continued to leave after widespread reports of looting.

Turkey's military and its rebel allies have encircled the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the Turkish armed forces said on Tuesday, a substantial advance in Turkey's offensive against Kurdish fighters across its southern border.

Turkish troops backed by Syrian rebel fighters have entered the centre of the ISIS group bastion of Al-Bab and will soon capture it, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.

Turkish police detained 30 people suspected of links to ISIS in the southern province of Adana, the Dogan news agency reported on Friday, as clashes between Turkish soldiers and the jihadist group intensified in northern Syria.

The Turkish army on Monday accused ISIS jihadists of killing at least 30 civilians seeking to flee the flashpoint Syrian town of Al-Bab which Ankara and its rebel allies have been seeking to capture for weeks.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey's military operation in support of rebels in northern Syria did not target any one country or individual, but was aimed at terrorist organisations.

ISIS terrorists fired a rocket in northern Syria that caused symptoms of "chemical gas" exposure in 22 Syrian rebels, state media cited Turkey's military as saying on Sunday.

Turkey called on the United States and other nations on Monday to rethink its proposal for a no-fly zone in northern Syria hours after a rebel commander allied with Syria's Kurds said Turkish airstrikes killed one fighter and wounded others.

At least 13 people were killed and dozens were injured by a car bomb on Thursday which targeted a building used by a rebel group in the northern Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

United States-led coalition warplanes killed 20 ISIS terrorists in Syria over the last 24 hours, the Turkish military said on Tuesday, nearly two months into a Turkey-backed rebel operation to drive the terrorists away from the border.

Turkish-based rebel fighters will advance to Al-Bab after seizing the emblematic northern town of Dabiq from the ISIS, the Turkish foreign minister said on Sunday.

ISIS terrorists captured several villages from Syrian rebels in a counter-attack near the Turkish border that forced the foreign-backed insurgents to retreat, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

At least 21 Syrian rebels fighting alongside Turkish troops in northern Syria against the ISIS were killed Sunday by landmines laid by the jihadist group, a monitor said Monday.

Fighting in northern Syria between Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and Islamic State militants killed at least 15 rebels as the opposition tried to push toward a town of symbolic importance for the extremists, an activist group and Turkish officials said Monday.

Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Wednesday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before starting a cross-border ground operation that could transform an eight-year-old war.

A day after Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies seized control of Afrin, a Turkish aid group started distributing relief supplies in the town centre on Monday, but residents continued to leave after widespread reports of looting.

Turkey's military and its rebel allies have encircled the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the Turkish armed forces said on Tuesday, a substantial advance in Turkey's offensive against Kurdish fighters across its southern border.

Turkish troops backed by Syrian rebel fighters have entered the centre of the ISIS group bastion of Al-Bab and will soon capture it, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.

Turkish police detained 30 people suspected of links to ISIS in the southern province of Adana, the Dogan news agency reported on Friday, as clashes between Turkish soldiers and the jihadist group intensified in northern Syria.

The Turkish army on Monday accused ISIS jihadists of killing at least 30 civilians seeking to flee the flashpoint Syrian town of Al-Bab which Ankara and its rebel allies have been seeking to capture for weeks.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey's military operation in support of rebels in northern Syria did not target any one country or individual, but was aimed at terrorist organisations.

ISIS terrorists fired a rocket in northern Syria that caused symptoms of "chemical gas" exposure in 22 Syrian rebels, state media cited Turkey's military as saying on Sunday.

Turkey called on the United States and other nations on Monday to rethink its proposal for a no-fly zone in northern Syria hours after a rebel commander allied with Syria's Kurds said Turkish airstrikes killed one fighter and wounded others.

At least 13 people were killed and dozens were injured by a car bomb on Thursday which targeted a building used by a rebel group in the northern Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

United States-led coalition warplanes killed 20 ISIS terrorists in Syria over the last 24 hours, the Turkish military said on Tuesday, nearly two months into a Turkey-backed rebel operation to drive the terrorists away from the border.

Turkish-based rebel fighters will advance to Al-Bab after seizing the emblematic northern town of Dabiq from the ISIS, the Turkish foreign minister said on Sunday.

ISIS terrorists captured several villages from Syrian rebels in a counter-attack near the Turkish border that forced the foreign-backed insurgents to retreat, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

At least 21 Syrian rebels fighting alongside Turkish troops in northern Syria against the ISIS were killed Sunday by landmines laid by the jihadist group, a monitor said Monday.

Fighting in northern Syria between Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and Islamic State militants killed at least 15 rebels as the opposition tried to push toward a town of symbolic importance for the extremists, an activist group and Turkish officials said Monday.