Turkey

Syrian helicopters and artillery bombard the Ras al-Ain area near the Turkish border days after Free Syrian Army rebels captured it during an advance into the northeast, opposition campaigners say.

The United Nations warns that the number of people within Syrian needing humanitarian aid will soar from 2.5 million to around 4 million by early next year.

Visiting a refugee camp near Jordan’s border with Syria, David Cameron has called for a new diplomatic push to force President Assad from power.

Turkey fortifies security and threatens to retaliate forcefully if its border with Syria is violated again.

The Syrian transport minister has described the Turkish decision to force a Syrian passenger plane to land as “air piracy”. The plane was travelling from Russia to Damascus.

Turkish fighter planes have forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara’s airport amid suspicions it was being used to carry munitions, according to reports.

Syria apologises for Wednesday’s mortar attack on Turkey, as the Turkish parliament gives the green light for military action outside the country’s borders if the government deems it necessary.

As Turkey’s retaliation to Syria’s mortar attack on a Turkish town marks a new low in relations between the neighbouring countries, Channel 4 News looks into the background of the latest skirmishes.

With close ties to Iran and Lebanon, and with its physical proximity to regional powers like Egypt and Turkey, Syria is at the heart of a complex set of relations in the Middle East.

More than 200,000 Syrians have fled into neighbouring countries during the conflict, already surpassing the UN’s expectation of 185,000 refugees by the end of the year.

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Nato condemns Syria’s shooting down of a Turkish plane as relations between the two countries deteriorate.

Foreign Secretary William Hague condemns Syria’s attack on a Turkish jet as “outrageous” as the wreckage of the downed plane is found.