Syrian Defense Minister Ali Habib said his country is to stage a second round of joint military exercises with Turkey, in comments published Wednesday.
"Syria and Turkey held manoeuvres in the spring and will hold more exercises to develop our actions on the border," Habib said, quoted in Al-Watan newspaper, but without specifying dates.
The defense minister was speaking at a strategic coordination meeting Tuesday in Aleppo, northern Syria, of several ministers from the two Muslim neighbors.
The Syrian and Turkish militaries held joint exercises in late April, stirring criticism in Israel.
Habib's announcement came less than a week after Turkey's ties with Israel took a turn for the worse when the Jewish state announced that Ankara had excluded it from joint air force exercises with North Atlantic Treaty Organization members.
Turkish-Syrian relations, meanwhile, have improved after decades of mistrust based on Ankara's accusations that Damascus supported Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party.
Syria and Turkey signed an agreement in Istanbul last month to establish a cooperation council as part of efforts to forge closer links.
On Tuesday, the foreign ministers of the two countries signed a deal in Aleppo on scrapping visa requirements for each other's nationals.