Raqqa

Turkey has not been given crucial data to help identify Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who fled their former stronghold in Raqqa last month and may have slipped out of Syria to threaten Turkish or Western targets, Turkish officials said.

Germany will spend an initial 10 million euros to help remove mines from the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the Handelsblatt newspaper said in Friday editions, reported Reuters.

The foreign ministry is set to announce the increased funding as part of a pact with the United States on Friday, the paper added.

U.S.-backed forces battling to oust the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from its Syrian bastion Raqqa have advanced in the city's south, seizing a new neighborhood, a spokesman and monitor said on Aug. 1.

A woman who was forcibly smuggled into Isis-held Syria by her husband has described the horrors of the caliphate and told of the British jihadists she met there.

Islam Mitat, 23, had been married to her husband, Ahmed, for just three months when he announced he wanted them to move from Dubai to Turkey, according to a report in The Times.

The United States has told Turkey that the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) will not remain in the region after the operation to take Syria's Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on May 12.

One of the "emirs" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was killed in an airstrike carried out by Turkish warplanes in Syria as a part of the ongoing Euphrates Shield operation, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) announced on Dec. 31. 

Abu Ansari, one of the "emirs" of the jihadist group was killed on Dec. 30 in during a Turkish air operation in al-Bab.

One of the "emirs" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was killed on Dec. 29 in an airstrike carried out by Turkish warplanes in Syria as a part of the ongoing Euphrates Shield operation, sources in the region have claimed.

The vehicle holding Ebu Husen Tunusi and bodyguards in his motorcade was reportedly hit during a Turkish air operation in al-Bab.

Manbij is Turkey's first priority as part of its Euphrates Shield Operation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, adding that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) capital, Raqqa, would be the second target if Turkey and the United States can agree. 

The death toll from purported Russian airstrikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-held city of Raqqa has climbed to at least 55, mostly civilians, Syrian opposition activists and ISIL said on March 20.

France is to 'intensify Syria operations' after the Paris attacks, said French President François Hollande, while police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across France overnight arresting 23 people, as French fighter aircrafts have bombed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria's Raqqa city late Nov. 15.