Al-Bab

Ballistic missiles fired from Syrian regime-controlled Kuweires airport in Aleppo have targeted civilian settlements and parking lots for fuel tankers in northern Jarablus and al-Bab districts, with civilian casualties reported, Turkey's National Defense Ministry said early on March 15.

Syrian Kurds are taking critical steps to deal with the threat of being caught in a vise between their worsening relations with the Damascus regime, and Turkey’s possible cross-border operations. Syria’s Kurds have just proposed a new governmental structure comprising three federal regions and six cantons in the Democratic Federal System of Northern Syria (previously known as Rojava).

Around 100,000 refugees are expected to return to Syria from Turkey by the end of 2017, according to a project started as part of cooperation between the Family and Social Policies Ministry and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that Ankara told the United States that it won't ask anyone before responding if an attack or a provocation from the the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) takes place against Turkey. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the first phase of Turkey's military operation in Syria, dubbed the Euphrates Shield, has ended while heralding that new operations will follow.

The Turkish army has established a temporary base in a strategically important point of the newly captured al-Bab, located in northern Syria. 

Turkey and Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels gained full control of Syria's al-Bab as part of the Euphrates Shield operation, the Turkish Armed Forces said Feb. 24, on a day in which two Turkish soldiers were killed in a suicide attack near the city, as dozens of others were also killed in a separate attack. 

Two Turkish soldiers have been killed in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide attack in Syria's al-Bab, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Feb. 24.  

Yıldırım said the suicide attack targeted Turkish soldiers who were conducting road checks at the entrance of al-Bab. 

Two soldiers were killed in the attack while there were also wounded soldiers, he said. 

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and three others were wounded after improvised explosive devices detonated during mine clearing operations in Syria's al-Bab as part of Turkey's ongoing Euphrates Shield operation, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Feb. 24.

The wounded soldiers were taken to hospital. 

An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) car bomb attack killed at least 27 civilians and six Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in northern Syria's strategic al-Bab area on Feb. 24, according to reliable sources from the region.