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Syrians wait to cross into Syria from Türkiye at the Öncüpınar border gate, near the town of Kilis, southern Türkiye, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.

Approximately 100,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since opposition fighters overthrew Syria's strongman Bashar al-Assad, the head of the U.N. migration agency estimated on Dec. 18.

Syrian residents in Türkiye cheer as they celebrate the end of the Baath rule in Syria after rebel fighters took control of Damascus overnight, at the Fatih Mosque, in Istanbul, on Dec. 8, 2024.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry has made great strides toward restoring historical structures in the provinces ravaged by last year's deadly twin earthquakes in the country's south, bringing various cultural assets back to life.

A serious incident took place on Turkey’s border with Syria.

Turkish media reported that two mortar shells fell in the mined border area near the Turkish town of Kilis and the Turkish armed forces are retaliating with a barrage of artillery fire.

A fire has broken out in the area.

Exactly 46 days after the devastating Feb. 6 earthquakes, the first foundations for new housing in the affected provinces were laid on March 23.

With migrants only allowed one backpack each on the smugglers' boats that carry them from Turkey to Greece, Ahmed, his wife Hanin and her family packed a few possessions and sent the rest of their belongings to friends.

Then they waited.

The Pentagon on Feb. 1 condemned recent rocket attacks by People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants on the Turkish city of Kilis that targeted civilians.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met on Aug. 6 with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in the Philippine capital Manila during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum, before holding a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later in the day. 

Ten soldiers were injured early on July 13 in a fire that broke out in a military area in the southern province of Kilis, the Kilis Governor's Office has said in a statement.        

It said there were no causalities in the fire and the injured soldiers, who suffered from mild smoke inhalation, have already been discharged from Kilis State Hospital.        

Turkey tops the list of refugee hosting countries in the world, hosting 2.9 million of the world's 65 million refugees, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated on June 20.

Most of the refugees hosted by Turkey are from Syria and Iraq, with the UNHCR putting the number of Iraqi refugees in Turkey at around 30,000.