Tag: Syria
Putin, Obama head for UN showdown over Syria
AFP – Russian President Vladimir Putin squared up for a clash Monday with his US counterpart Barack Obama at the…
US to take in 100,000 refugees – Kerry
The United States will take in more refugees worldwide in the next two years, US Secretary of State John Kerry…
ISIS terrorist group storms Ghana, begin recruitment
Global Risk Insights, a human right organisation, on Wednesday raised an alert that ISIS terrorist group has started recruiting youths…
France to prepare air strikes against IS in Syria – Hollande
AFP – France will launch surveillance flights over Syria from Tuesday with a view to conducting airstrikes on Islamic State…
“My children slipped through my hands”: father of drowned Syrian boy
Bodrum (Turkey) (AFP) – The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy, whose body was washed up on a Turkish beach…
Twelve Syrians drown heading from Turkey to Greek island
Reuters – An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey’s prime tourist resorts…
Ghana man joins Islamic State, family says
A 25-year-old Muslim from Ghana has travelled to an Islamic State (IS) training camp, becoming the first known recruit from…
70 dead in Syria regime raids near Damascus
At least 70 people were killed Sunday in a string of Syrian government air strikes on a marketplace in Douma,…
Turkey denies new deal with Saudi on supporting Syria rebels
Ankara (AFP) – Turkey on Friday denied it had struck a secret new pact with Saudi Arabia to back Islamist…
US drops 60,000 propaganda leaflets on IS in Syria
The US military dropped 60,000 leaflets on the Islamic State group’s de facto capital in Syria showing a grisly depiction…
US must talk to Assad to end Syria war – Kerry
The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end the civil war now entering its…
Jordan ‘reaping results of backing terror’: Syria media
The Islamic State group’s gruesome murder of a captured Jordanian pilot is the consequence of Amman’s support for Syrian rebels,…
US gives $6 million to Syria opposition government
Syria’s opposition interim government said Thursday it had received $6 million from the United States in the first direct US…
Five Canadians fighting for IS killed in Syria
Five Canadians have died fighting alongside Islamic State militants in Syria, including a man who called for lone wolf attacks…
Car bomb near Syria gas plant kills 8
A car bomb exploded near a gas plant in Syria’s Homs province on Monday killing eight people, including four soldiers,…