Akçakale

The U.N. Security Council on Jan. 12 renewed a cross-border aid operation into Syria for another six months and only from two border crossings with Turkey in the northwest of the war-torn country not controlled by President Bashar al-Assad.

A car bomb exploded in the city of Tell Abiad, Syria, near the border with Turkey. At least 4 people were killed and dozens were injured.

Following the blast, roads leading to and from the city were closed by local authorities, while the seriously injured were taken to a hospital in the nearby Turkish city of Akcakale.

No terrorist group has yet claimed responsibility.

USEUCOM's U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Twitty and USCENTCOM's U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas Bergeson on Sept. 11 visited the Turkey-U.S. joint operations center in the Akçakale district of the southeastern Şanlıurfa province established for the coordination of activities in the safe zone in northern Syria.

Four suspected members of ISIL were captured in southeast Turkey, according to security sources on Feb. 2. 

A total of 19 people were detained on June 16 over an armed clash during an election tour of a delegation from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the southeastern Turkish province of Şanlıurfa.

Two soldiers were saved and two were killed after an armored military personnel vehicle got caught in a flooded river in the Akçakale district of the southeastern Turkish province of Şanlıurfa on Feb. 18, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Feb. 19.

Police teams in the Akçakale district of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on Feb. 2 detained nine people over the kidnap of the four-year-old son of a Syrian businessman. 

Syrian businessman Kasim el Ali's son, Ismail el Ali, and his friend Mahir Fayed were kidnapped by a group of armed men while Fayed was taking el Ali's son to his house to play with his children.

Three American flags were lowered on top of buildings under the control of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Tal Abyad town in northern Syria on Sept. 17, a local source in the region told Anadolu Agency.

The U.S. flags had emerged at the group's base in the area on Sept. 16, according to the source.

The Turkish gendarmerie has found four abandoned bags stuffed with 50 kilograms of plastic explosives in the southeastern district of Akçakale, which is across the border from Syria's Tal Abyad, which is under Democratic Union Party (PYD) rule.
 
Gendarmerie officials on patrol duty in the Bakacak region of ?anl?urfa's Akçakale noticed the four abandoned backpacks in a field. 

As Syrians who fled the clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Kurdish forces have started returning to Tal Abyad after the jihadists' defeat, Kurdish militia have discovered a torture center and prison cells in the Syrian town.