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Turkey plans to carry out rehabilitation works in war-torn areas in Syria and will build a logistics warehouse in the Syrian town of al-Rai amid budget difficulties, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has said. 

U.S. special forces are accompanying Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters along the Turkish border near Jarabulus and al-Rai in Syria, the Pentagon told Anadolu Agency on Sept. 16.

The move came "at the request of the government of Turkey", according to agency spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis.

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four others were wounded during an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on two Turkish tanks late on Sept. 6 as Turkish forces push deeper into Syrian soil.

The attack took place near the Syrian town of al-Rai on the 14th day of Turkey's Euphrates Shield operation in northern Syria, the Turkish military announced Sept. 6.

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four others have been wounded during clashes with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants near the Syrian town of al-Rai, the 14th day of an operation in northern Syria, the Turkish military announced Sept 6.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five others have been wounded during clashes with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants near the Syrian town of al-Rai, the 14th day of an operation in northern Syria, the Turkish military announced Sept. 6.

The soldiers were killed when ISIL missiles hit two Turkish tanks in the Wuquf village, the military said. 

BELGRADE - Turkish forces and Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State (ISIS / Daesh / ISIL / IS) terrorist group from the last areas of the Syrian-Turkish border under their control on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group jihadists have seized a string of opposition-held villages in Syria's Aleppo province near the Turkish border, a monitoring group said on April 14.
 

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants took back a stronghold in Syria near the border with Turkey on April 11, four days after losing it to a grouping of rebels, a monitoring group said. 

U.N. special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said April 7 that the next round of Syria peace talks will begin on April 13 after he completes a diplomatic tour, including stops in Damascus and Tehran, a push back from the formerly announced date of April 11.  

In a brazen assault near the Syrian capital, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants on April 7 abducted 300 cement workers and contractors in an area northeast of Damascus, Syrian state TV reported as fighting elsewhere in the country also worsened.