Military intervention against ISIL

The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group is helping Turkey find two of its soldiers that went missing in Syria, a British general said on Nov. 30.

The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is helping Turkey find two of its soldiers that went missing in Syria, a British general stated on Nov. 30.

A string of miscommunications, intelligence shortcomings and human errors resulted in a U.S.-led coalition air strike in Syria in September that reportedly killed around 90 regime forces, the Pentagon said Nov. 29, AFP reported.

Next week will mark the third month of Turkey's Euphrates Shield Operation, which has been able to successfully secure an area including a 100-kilometer-strip of the Turkish-Syrian border and clear an area of around 1,700 kilometers square inside Syria from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Air strikes by the United States in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may have killed 119 civilians since 2014, the Pentagon said Nov. 9, releasing a death toll that is far lower than the casualty estimates supplied by monitoring groups.

At least 13 militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been killed by coalition airstrikes and clashes with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in northern Syria, the Turkish Armed Forces said on Nov. 5.
       

A total of 36 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were killed in clashes on Nov. 2 in northern Syria, the Turkish army said in a statement on Nov. 3. 

The Turkish Armed Forces "neutralized" 22 ISIL militants on Nov. 2, the 72nd day of the Euphrates Shield Operation, during clashes in northern Syria, the military said in a statement on Nov. 3. 

The advance of Ankara-backed Syrian rebels was hampered due to resistance by jihadists in northern Syria, the Turkish army said in a statement on Nov. 1. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu spoke on the phone with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry over the latter's decision to remove the families of U.S. consulate personnel in Istanbul due to security reasons.  

Eight Turkey-backed Syrian fighters were killed and 34 were wounded during clashes in the ongoing Euphrates Shield operation, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Oct. 28, while two Islamic State Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were killed in air operations conducted by U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition powers.