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Illustrative: A helicopter, part of the Qatari Air Force, takes part in a flypast during celebrations marking Qatar National Day, in Doha on December 18, 2025. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)
March 22, 2026, 3:24 pm
Doha says 4 Qataris, 3 Turks killed in helicopter crash, cites ‘malfunction’
Fatalities are first from either country since start of Iran war; incident occurred during joint drill, Turkey says
By AFP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony marking the Steel Dome system delivery at the ASELSAN Golbasi Campus in Ankara, Turkey on August 27, 2025. (TUR Presidency / Murat Kula / Anadolu)
November 26, 2025, 6:04 pm
Turkey spends $6.5 billion to boost ‘Steel Dome’ air defenses amid Israel tensions
Erdogan asserts system is built to mirror Israel’s Iron Dome and will put his country ‘in a different class in terms of air defense’; it’s expected to take years to complete
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A combo image of footage posted to X showing a Turkish military C-130 crashing in Georgia, November 11, 2025. (Screengrabs / X)
November 11, 2025, 7:25 pm
Turkish military plane breaks up mid-air, crashes in Georgia with 20 onboard
Ankara says C-130 cargo plane was traveling back to Turkey from Azerbaijan; Erdogan expresses sorrow for ‘martyrs,’ though no casualties announced
By Agencies
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony marking the Steel Dome system delivery at the ASELSAN Golbasi Campus in Ankara, Turkey on August 27, 2025. (TUR Presidency / Murat Kula / Anadolu)
August 27, 2025, 10:39 pm
Erdogan hails delivery to his troops of Turkey’s own ‘Steel Dome’ air defense system
President says new $460 million system, commissioned due to ‘recent conflicts’ and modeled on Israel’s Iron Dome, will ‘inspire confidence in friends and fear in enemies’
By AFP
Troops of the 810th "Mountains" Regional Brigade operate in southern Syria, in a handout photo issued on May 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 21, 2025, 9:52 pm
Israel, Turkey said to agree to prevent clashes in Syria, establish hotline
Report says agreement in principle reached after over month of talks; discussions ongoing over Palmyra bases, Turkish deployment of air defenses and radars
By ToI Staff
Fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) take part in a military parade in the US-protected Al-Omar oil field in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on March 23, 2021, marking the second annual anniversary of Baghouz's liberation from the Islamic State (IS) group. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
November 21, 2022, 3:18 pm
3 killed as Syrian Kurdish militants fire rockets at Turkish border town
Turkey says child and teacher among dead after high school, house and border gate struck; rights group says Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces responsible for attack
By Suzan Fraser
Illustrative: Iraqi and Turkish tanks take part in a military exercise near the border with Iraqi Kurdistan at Silopi district in Sirnak on September 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ilyas Akengin)
June 17, 2020, 10:20 am
Turkey enters northern Iraq in ground operation against Kurdish rebels
Ankara says its first known airborne-and-land offensive in Iraqi territory is in line with international law following insurgents’ attacks on its military
By AP
Syrian army soldiers advance in Tall Sultan town towards Saraqeb city, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, on February 5, 2020. (AFP)
February 8, 2020, 5:05 pm
Syrian army overruns key crossroads town despite Turkish warnings
Recapture of Saraqeb comes as Assad regime pushes to retake the last rebel-held province of Idlib; Turkey sending more troops to the area
By AFP
Illustrative: Image of Russian S-400 long-range air defense missile systems deployed at Hemeimeem air base in Syria, December 16, 2015. (Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
November 25, 2019, 12:50 pm
Turkey to start testing Russian S-400 defense system – report
US legislators have warned of sanctions if Ankara activates the system, seen as a threat to NATO security
By AP
A Syrian soldier mans a position in the countryside of the city of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, along the border with Turkey on November 3, 2019. (AFP)
November 14, 2019, 8:49 pm
Syrian troops begin deploying along border with Turkey
Deployment part of cease-fire brokered by Moscow to stop Turkish military offensive against Kurds
By Albert Aji
In this July 30, 2010 file photo, Pakistani army soldiers help an elderly villager evacuated from a flooded area in Nowshera, Pakistan. As Turkish forces invaded northern Syria in early October 2019, supporters of the offensive launched an online misinformation campaign. Dozens of misleading images claiming to show Turkey’s soldiers cuddling babies, feeding hungry toddlers and carrying elderly women, including this image from 2010, spread across Twitter and Instagram where they were liked, retweeted and viewed thousands of times. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad, File)
November 8, 2019, 10:40 pm
Amid assault on Kurds, Twitter saw surge of Turkish propaganda photos
Online campaign led by multiple accounts follows pattern on social media when controversial, international events erupt
By AMANDA SEITZ
This image made from video posted on a militant website on April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. (Al-Furqan media via AP)
November 5, 2019, 4:36 am
Turkey says it captured slain IS leader’s sister in Syria
Turkish official calls arrest of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s sister an ‘intelligence gold mine’
By Sarah El Deeb
Syrian President Bashar Assad in an AP interview at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, September 2016. (Syrian Presidency via AP)
November 1, 2019, 12:50 am
Assad says Israel behind all anti-government forces in Syrian civil war
In interview, dictator says modern Israel does not exist and theorizes that raid on terror leader Baghdadi did not actually take place
By ToI Staff and AFP
Turkish soldiers at a position east of the northeastern Syrian town of Ras al-AIn watch as a tank fires on positions held by fighters from the Syrian Democratic Army (SDF) on October 28, 2019. (Nazeer Al-khatib / AFP)
October 29, 2019, 3:27 pm
Syrian, Turkish forces exchange fire in first border zone clash
War monitor reports heavy fighting near border town of Ras al-Ayn after Kurdish fighters forced to retreat by US military withdrawal
By AFP
A man who was injured during the ongoing Turkish offensive against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria lies at a hospital in Tal Tamr, near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain, October 18, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
October 18, 2019, 3:55 pm
Deadly Turkish airstrikes shatter deal to pause Syria offensive
Kurdish forces accuse Turkey of attacking its fighters and civilians despite US-brokered agreement with Erdogan for halt in operation to allow Kurds to withdraw
By Delil Souleiman
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