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A total of 10 suspects were detained on Jan. 25 in Turkey's capital, Ankara, for recruiting militants for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and having connections with the group, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A rocket fired from Syria on Jan. 23 slammed into the town of Kilis on the Turkish side of the border, wounding two people, reports said, quoting the local governorate.

The rocket hit a street causing an explosion that damaged nearby buildings and wounded an 18-year-old youth and a 14-year-old Syrian refugee girl, the semi-official Anadolu Agency said.

An explosion in a school’s grounds in Kilis, Turkey, has reportedly killed two people.

According to Turkish media, it is believed a mortar shell hit the area which is located near the Syrian border.

The bomb is believed to have struck the Eyup Gokce secondary school at 9:30am local time, RT reports.

Turkey's army bombarded targets across the border in Syria on Jan. 18, hours after rocket fire hit a school garden in the southeastern province of Kilis, killing one woman and wounding a student. 
 

One person was killed and a student was injured as a rocket projectile originating from Syria hit a schoolyard in the southeastern Turkish province of Kilis, the office of the governor announced in a written statement.
 
The blast reportedly took place at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 18 near the Nazl? Ömer Çetin primary school in the center of Kilis, where four schools are located. 

Turkey has started building a wall on a section of its border with Syria controlled by the Islamic State group on the Syrian side, AP reported on Thursday, citing Turkish news agency Dogan.

Turkish counter-terrorism units have revealed that militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) prepared suicide bomb vests and other materials in a depot in the southeastern province of Gaziantep for use in the double suicide bomb attack that killed 102 people in Ankara on Oct. 10.

Turkish counterterrorism units have revealed that militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) prepared suicide bomb vests and other materials in a depot in the southeastern province of Gaziantep for use in the double suicide bomb attack that killed 102 people in Ankara on Oct. 10.

Seventeen suspects, including 15 foreign nationals, who purportedly planned to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, have been arrested in the southeastern province of Gaziantep.

Tons of explosive material has been seized near the Turkish-Syrian border in two days, with 17 suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) detained in the border town of Kilis.