U.S. troops deploy around Manbij in Syria in an attempt to keep tensions between Turkish and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State at a minimum.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan announce the "normalisation" of ties between the two countries, damaged by Ankara downing one of Moscow's warplanes in 2015.

Germany's foreign minister visits his Turkish counterpart in Berlin, hoping to smooth over an escalating feud between the NATO allies.

Video uploaded to social media website purports to show a military plane that crashed close to the Turkish border in the Syrian northern countryside of Idlib province.

Turkish air strikes hit 33 Islamic State targets in Syria's Al-Bab - Army