Eleven thousand Syrians have fled the country in the past 24 hours, the UN says.

A group of Syrian soldiers including two generals and 11 colonels have fled to Turkey, according to Turkey’s state-run news agency.

ON Oct 3, a mortar shell crossed from Syria into Turkey and smashed into Zeliha Timucin’s home, killing Timucin, her sister, and three of her kids.

Turkish troops have returned fire after cross-border shelling from Syria for the sixth day in a row.

Another mortar shell from Syria struck Turkish territory today, prompting a fourth straight day of retaliatory artillery fire, and reviving fears that the crisis in Syria could spiral into a regional conflict.

Turkish troops have returned fire after a mortar shell from Syria again landed on their territory, Turkey’s state-run news agency said tonight.

Dozens of Syria’s military have defected to Turkey with their families as tensions between the two countries grow over the shooting down of a Turkish jet fighter.

Syria said it shot down a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian air space, while Turkey vowed to “determinedly take necessary steps” in response.

A Turkish air force jet went down in Syrian waters today, but Turkey’s prime minister said he could not confirm media reports that it had been shot down by Syrian forces.

A Turkish military jet disappeared today while flying over the Mediterranean near Syria.

Syrian troops are clashing with rebels near the border with Turkey, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.

Syrian forces fired across the border yesterday into a refugee camp in Turkey, wounding at least five people as a UN-brokered plan to end more than a year of violence this week all but collapsed, authorities said.

UN envoy Angelina Jolie travelled to Turkey’s border with Syria today, sharing fruit and desserts with some of the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled their government’s bloody crackdown.

Angelina Jolie has arrived at Turkey’s border with Syria to meet some of the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled their government’s bloody crackdown on dissent.

SYRIANS fearful of reprisals poured out of a northern town at the centre of anti-government protests as pressure on President Bashar al-Assad grew at the UN Security Council.

A Catholic bishop was stabbed to death in Turkey today, a day before he was due to meet the pope.

A moderate earthquake shook east of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus and was also felt on the south-eastern Turkish coast early today.