ISIL rocket attacks on Turkey

One more rocket fired from Syria’s northwestern province of Afrin by suspected militants of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) hit Turkey’s border province of Kilis on Jan. 27.

A rocket fired from the Syrian district of Afrin hit the Turkish border province of Kilis on Jan. 24.

Two rockets fired from Syria landed in the Turkish border provinces of Kilis and Hatay on Jan. 23, according to a security source and the Kilis Governor’s Office.

A police informant within the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly killed a police officer in 2016 in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep.

Almost 67,000 people were killed in traffic accidents across Turkey in the past 14 years, according to data from the Turkish General Directorate of Security.

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.        

Nearly 190 Islamic State Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspects were arrested in nationwide counterterrorism operations across Turkey in June, according to information from security officials. 

Security announcements showed that 20 of 188 ISIL suspects, including foreigners, were remanded in custody to face trial on a variety of charges. 

Some 18 people were detained in simultaneous raids around Istanbul over alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on June 11, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Anti-terrorism police raided 19 different addresses in 11 districts in Istanbul early on June 11 as part of an investigation into the jihadist group. 

Five Turkish soldiers were killed in an Islamic State Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack on Feb. 9 during the ongoing Euphrates Shield operation in northern Syria, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The Turkish Armed Forces announced that two soldiers were killed early on Feb. 9.

The bodies of the soldiers have been taken to the southeastern province of Gaziantep.  

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in northern Syria during the Euphrates Shield Operation on Jan. 4, according to the Turkish military. 

One of the killed soldiers succumbed to his injuries in hospital.