Turkey says it has received the body of a Russian pilot killed after his plane was shot down on the Syrian border.

Russia has announced a package of economic sanctions against Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian jet on the Syrian border on Tuesday.

Russia strengthens its anti-aircraft defences in Syria by moving a cruiser closer to the coast and deploying new missiles at an air base.

Russia rejects Turkey's claims that it did not know the plane it shot down on the Syria border was Russian.

In a move raising the potential threat of a Russia-NATO conflict, Russia said Wednesday it will deploy long-range air defense missiles to its base in Syria and destroy any target that may threaten its warplanes following the downing of a Russian military jet by Turkey.

The Turkish military has released an audio recording of what it says were warnings to a Russian warplane before it was shot down on the Syrian border.

Did the Turks overreact to a Russian incursion? Or was Ankara itching for an opportunity to send a robust message to Moscow?

The surviving pilot of a Russian plane shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border says no warning was given, and the plane was inside Syrian airspace.

President Putin condemns the downing of a Russian warplane on the Turkish-Syrian border, saying it is a “stab in the back” by “accomplices of terrorists”.

David Cameron is holding talks in Paris with French President Francois Hollande on co-operation in the fight against so-called Islamic State.

France's security services are once again facing a harsh spotlight after failing to prevent the brutal attacks in Paris carried out by the Islamic State group.

Barack Obama and other world leaders arrive in Turkey on Sunday for a summit after attacks in Paris pushed the fight against IS to the top of the agenda.

Turkish soldiers killed four Islamic State fighters on Saturday after they came under fire from the militants along Turkey's Syria border, local media reported.

The Bulgarian authorities are accused of brutality towards migrants in a new report sponsored by the British charity Oxfam.

Turkey, with strong institutions, became a model of democracy in the region when AKP won in a landslide victory in 2002. Many see Erdogan as a master politician for effectively purging the military of its meddling in politics.

Polling stations opened in eastern Turkey for one of the most crucial elections in years, as the deeply divided country confronts a bloody wave of jihadist attacks and a renewed Kurdish conflict.

At least 22 migrants - many of them children - drown trying to reach Kalymnos and Rhodes from Turkey, in the second major boat tragedy off Greek islands this week.

Two Turkish fishermen rescued and resuscitated a Syrian toddler they luckily found floating unconscious in the Aegean Sea.

EU states have approved an action plan for Turkey that it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe.

European leaders are to discuss measures to ease the region's migration crisis, with Turkey the focus of their efforts in Brussels.