The Observer
Beirut Smoke rises on 7 October after a Syrian shell falls on Akcakale, where five Turkish civilians were killed last week. EPA Turkey has scrambled fighter jets to its border with Syria for the first time since warning its southern neighbour that...
Christian Science Monitor
ments Syrian airliner spat sours improving Turkish-Russian relations Turkey's grounding of a Syrian plane allegedly carrying weapons from Moscow to Damascus has put Moscow and Ankara which have been cooperating in recent years at odds. By Fred Weir , ...
Arab News
The army took a pounding at the hands of rebels in northern Syria, a watchdog said on Friday, as tensions between Damascus and Ankara escalated over cargo seized from a Syrian passenger plane. A rebel offensive killed more than 100 soldiers in two...
Times of India
Syrian rebels said they had captured an air defence base with a cache of missiles outside Damascus, a rare advance on the city after a series of opposition setbacks in the capital. Rebel forces overran the base in the Eastern Gouta area, a few miles...
Russia Today
Turkish F-16 fighter jets forced a Syrian Air passenger plane to land in Ankara over suspicions that it was carrying "non-civilian" cargo. The Damascus-bound plane, en route from Moscow, has departed after a nine-hour inspection. A Syrian passenger...
BBC
Russia says the Syria-bound plane intercepted by Turkey amid reports it was carrying cargo which could aid government war efforts was transporting a legal shipment of radar equipment. "There were no weapons on the plane," said Foreign Minister Sergei...