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Columns of smoke rise after airstrikes hit the Idlib province, Syria, on Thursday. Nearly three dozen Turkish soldiers were killed during a Syrian airstrike causing a sharp escalation in a growing conflict between the two countries. (ASSOCIATED PRESS )

Dozens of Turkish soldiers reported killed in Syrian airstrike

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2020 file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Fayez Sarraj, the head of Libya's internationally-recognized government, prior to their meeting in Istanbul. Two Libyan militia commanders and a Syrian war monitor group say Turkey is deploying Syrian extremists to fight in Libya's civil war. These extremists are affiliated with groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State. They're fighting as mercenaries on behalf of the United Nations-supported government in Libya. The Libyan sources told The Associated Press that Turkey has airlifted more than 2,500 foreign fighters into Tripoli, and that “dozens” are extremist-affiliated. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool, File)

Turkey says 2 Turkish soldiers killed in Libya

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Workers remove the wreckage after investigators has finished their work at the Pegasus Airlines plane that skidded Wednesday off the runway at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen Airport, in Istanbul, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Foreign and local investigators has examined the plane before the removal of its wreckage. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Pilot in Istanbul airport crash earlier this month arrested

Associated Press

A public bus driver, right, and a commuter wear masks to help guard against the Coronavirus in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. On Sunday Iran's health ministry raised the death toll from the new virus to 8 people in the country, amid concerns that clusters there, as well as in Italy and South Korea, could signal a serious new stage in its global spread. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Turkey closes borders with Iran over coronavirus concerns

By ANDREW WILKS - Associated Press

Turkish backed rebel fighters fire heavy machine gun near the village of Neirab in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday by an airstrike in northwestern Syria, according to Turkey's Defense Ministry, following a large-scale attack by Ankara-backed opposition forces that targeted Syrian government troops. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Erdogan urges Putin to rein in Syria, end human crisis

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

A girl takes a picture near candles as she takes part in a vigil for the victims of a shooting in Hanau, Germany Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. A 43-year-old German man shot and killed nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb overnight in attacks that appear to have been motivated by far-right beliefs, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Germany’s immigrant community in Hanau reeling after attack

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses to his ruling party's legislator at parliament, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Erdogan said on Wednesday that time was running up for Syrian government forces to retreat from Syria's northwestern Idlib province and warned of an &quot;imminent&quot; Turkish intervention to force the retreat.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish soldiers killed in Syria amid threats of escalation

By SUZAN FRASER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Putin has traveled to Syria to meet with President Bashar Assad, a key Iranian ally. The rare visit Tuesday comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and the United States following the U.S. drone strike last week that killed a top Iranian general who led forces supporting Assad in Syria's civil war. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Symbolic Aleppo flight comes as civilians suffer in Syria

By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 2019 file photo, Tripoli government forces clash with forces led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, south of the capital Tripoli, Libya. Two Libyan militia commanders and a Syrian war monitor group say Turkey is deploying Syrian extremists to fight in Libya's civil war. These extremists are affiliated with groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State. They're fighting as mercenaries on behalf of the United Nations-supported government in Libya. The Libyan sources told The Associated Press that Turkey has airlifted more than 2,500 foreign fighters into Tripoli, and that “dozens” are extremist-affiliated. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

Erdogan criticizes EU move to enforce Libyan arms embargo

By SUZAN FRASER and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2020 file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Fayez Sarraj, the head of Libya's internationally-recognized government, prior to their meeting in Istanbul. Two Libyan militia commanders and a Syrian war monitor group say Turkey is deploying Syrian extremists to fight in Libya's civil war. These extremists are affiliated with groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State. They're fighting as mercenaries on behalf of the United Nations-supported government in Libya. The Libyan sources told The Associated Press that Turkey has airlifted more than 2,500 foreign fighters into Tripoli, and that “dozens” are extremist-affiliated. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool, File)

Ship captain arrested in probe of arms trafficking to Libya

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Turkish activist Feray Salman and international human rights activists speak to the media before the trial of the Amnesty International's former Turkey chairman and 10 other activists, in Istanbul, Wednesday, Feb. 19. 2020. A court in Istanbul will hand down verdicts for defendants in the closely-watched trial on charges of belonging to or aiding terror groups. The case against activists heightened concerns about Turkey's treatment of human rights defenders. (AP Photo)

Turkey probes judges who acquitted businessman, activists

By SUZAN FRASER and ROBERT BADENBIECK - Associated Press

Mucella Yapici, one of defendants, celebrates after a court acquitted nine leading Turkish civil society activists of terrorism-related charges related to anti-government protests, including an entrepreneur known for philanthropy who has been jailed for more than two years, in Silivri, outside Istanbul, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkish philanthropist detained in new case after acquittal

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Civilians flee from Idlib toward the north to find safety inside Syria near the border with Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. Syrian troops are waging an offensive in the last rebel stronghold. (AP Photo)

Russia and Turkey agree on more talks on Syria amid crisis

By SUZAN FRASER and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, right, meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. (Michael Dalder/Pool via AP)

Turkey, Russia to discuss grave situation in Syria’s Idlib

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

In this May 21, 2019 file photo, Tripoli government forces clash with forces led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, south of the capital Tripoli, Libya. Two Libyan militia commanders and a Syrian war monitor group say Turkey is deploying Syrian extremists to fight in Libya's civil war. These extremists are affiliated with groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State. They're fighting as mercenaries on behalf of the United Nations-supported government in Libya. The Libyan sources told The Associated Press that Turkey has airlifted more than 2,500 foreign fighters into Tripoli, and that dozens are extremist-affiliated. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File) **FILE**

U.S. inaction leaves others to fill vacuum, Libyan official says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Syrian civilians flee from Idlib in rain toward the north to find safety inside Syria near the border with Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. Syrian troops are waging an offensive in the last rebel stronghold according to news reports by a Turkish news agency.( AP Photo)

Freezing weather compounds crisis for displaced in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

The latest violence in Idlib, Syria, came as government forces came closer to capturing the last rebel-held part of a strategic highway linking southern and northern Syria, which would bring the road under Syrian President Bashar Assad's full control for the first time since 2012. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

Turkey, Syria edge closer to all-out war in disputed Idlib province

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Akar said as many as four observation posts and two military positions are now in Syrian-controlled territory as the Syrian forces continued their advance into northwestern Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold and warned Turkish soldiers were under orders to retaliate forcefully to attacks on the military posts.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

AP Interview: DM says Turkey won’t pull out amid Syria push

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Rebel fighters fire a missile towards Syrian government positions in the province of Idlib, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020.Syria's military vowed on Sunday to keep up its campaign to regain control of the whole country, days after capturing large chunks of territory from the last rebel holdout in northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Turkey says it has retaliated after deadly Syrian shelling

By SUZAN FRASER and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A man carries his belongings through a street destroyed in recent bombings by the Syrian government forces in the town of Sarmin, in Idblib province, Syria, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. The Syrian government, backed by its ally Russia, has kept up a military offensive in Idlib province, aimed at securing a strategic highway that runs along rebel-controlled territory. President Bashar Assad's forces have seized dozens of rebel-held towns and villages in the past two months, displacing hundreds of people in the process. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian army vows to keep up campaign against last rebel area

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press