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Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announces that his country will begin repatriating ISIL prisoners on Monday.
2019-11-8

Senior SDF official Redur Xelil says defending ISIL prisons is not a priority anymore due to the conflict with Turkey.
2019-10-12

Artillery shelling and drone attacks by the U.S.-led coalition strike Islamic State positions in Syria, according to Turkish authorities, killing 63 militants and destroying multiple rocket launcher and gun positions.
2016-05-2

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that at least 50 United States military instructors have deployed to northern Syria from Turkey and Iraq to train Kurdish forces ahead of an assault on ISIL's de facto capital Al-Raqqah.
2015-11-30

The U.S. deploys around a dozen A-10 ground-attack planes to Turkey's southern Incirlik Air Base. A U.S. military official said the deployment had "added capability" to the coalition's efforts against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
2015-10-20

Kurdish People's Protection Units have captured the border town of Tell Abyad from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces.
2015-06-16

Turkey breaks from its policy of preventing Kurdish fighters from entering Syria and allows 150 Iraqi Peshmerga to cross into Kobanê.
2014-11-1

ISIL forces capture the headquarters of Kurdish forces defending the Syrian border town of Kobane with the United Nations warning of massacre.
2014-10-10

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that ISIL militants have captured 60 villages near the Kurdish town of Kobani on the border with Turkey.
2014-09-20

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that 52 people have died as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamists gain control of eight villages between Aleppo and the Turkish border.
2014-08-13