Turkey was involved in the Syrian Civil War in various ways. Mostly, by supporting insurgent groups but also by shooting down Syrian or Russian aircraft that violated its airspace, no matter how ...

Russia's military says that a helicopter that was searching for the crew of a shot-down warplane in Syria was shot down by rebel fire and one serviceman was killed. A spokesman for the general staff, ...

In November 2015, a Russian Su-24 bomber strayed into Turkish airspace along the Syrian border. Within minutes, a Turkish F-16 fired an air-to-air missile and sent the jet spiraling to the ground. One ...