al-Nusra

According to RT, Al-Nusra terrorists fired 17 missiles on the Russian base, but the missiles were intercepted and the attack was repelled.

The MoD said that two Su-34 warplanes "wiped out a workshop of Jabhat al-Nusra where the militants were making attack drones and kept explosives in store," while a Su-35S "eliminated a warehouse of portable anti-aircraft missiles," TASS is reporting.

Turkey will focus on the evacuation of civilians from Syria’s East Ghouta in the upcoming period and its National Intelligence Agency (MİT) is carrying out work for the removal of al-Nusra from the besieged area as well, Turkish Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has said. 

Bosnian Security Minister Dragan Mektic also warned that a number of former IS fighters will return to Bosnia, and announced tighter cooperation with Interpol on the issue.

"On that matter we will be receiving certain analysis and data from Interpol," Mektic said at the press conference with the Secretary General of Interpol, Jurgen Stock, in Sarajevo on Wednesday.

Syria’s Kurds have revealed plans to redraw the northern part of the country by linking the Kurdish region of Rojava with the Mediterranean Sea, in a move that will infuriate neighbouring Turkey.

Four people have been arrested after an operation targeting al-Nusra militants in the Yıldırım district of the northwestern province of Bursa, Doğan News Agency reported on Jan. 25. 

In the first days of Donald Trump era, the U.S. will have to deal with the Syria crisis as its first foreign policy problem, as it looks like it will be joining the Astana talks on Jan. 23.

Turkey and Russia have brokered a nationwide cease-fire between the regime and opposition forces in Syria with hopes that it will be followed by talks for a negotiated political solution in the war-torn country. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu's statement on Dec. 28 that expanding the cease-fire to evacuate Aleppo across Syria was "at hand" thanks to talks with Russia has raised hopes and questions in equal measure.

I knew Andrey Karlov in person. The Russian ambassador to Ankara was from the old school, a Cold War warrior, who even served in North Korea. In the worst times of the Turkish-Russian crisis after Turkey downed a Russian plane on the Syrian border, Karlov did not lose his calm.