Tag: Syria
Al-Qaeda seizes key army base in Syria
Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate on Monday seized the key army base of Wadi al-Deif in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib…
IS jihadists suffer heavy losses in Syria’s Kobane
Islamic State group jihadists battling for control of the Syrian town of Kobane suffered some of their heaviest losses yet…
British doctor ‘unlawfully killed’ in Syrian jail
Abbas Khan, the British doctor who died in a Syrian jail last year, was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury in…
IS attack on Kobane stalls amid US air assault
A bid by Islamic State fighters to seize the flashpoint Syrian border town of Kobane has stalled, American officials said,…
IS jihadists ‘seize parts of key Syrian town’
Islamic State jihadists pushed into the key Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border Monday, seizing three districts in…
Australian jets fly first mission against IS in Iraq
Australian fighter jets have flown their first armed combat mission in Iraq against the Islamic State group but did not…
IS Jihadists murder Briton, battle for Kurdish town
Islamic State jihadists mounted brutal offensives on both the Syrian battlefield and in their online propaganda war Friday, murdering a…
Ex-Guantanamo detainee walks free after UK drops terror charges
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, walked free from a British prison on Wednesday after prosecutors dropped seven terror…
School bombing kills 30 children in Syria
At least 30 Syrian children aged under 12 were killed Wednesday in a double bombing by a lone assailant at…
US-led strikes hit IS outside Syria’s Ain al-Arab
United States-led forces carried out at least five air strikes on Wednesday against Islamic State group fighters attacking the Syrian…
10 dead as Kurds battle IS for Syria border town
Fierce fighting between Kurdish militia and Islamic State jihadists for a strategic Syrian border town killed at least 10 people…
Britain carries out first air strikes against IS in Iraq
British fighter jets on Tuesday bombed an artillery post and an armed truck used by the Islamic State group in…
Man arrested in Australia over funding US fighter in Syria
A man was arrested in counterterror raids in Australia on Tuesday, with police alleging he was sending money to a…
US-led strikes hit Syria’s Raqa, Aleppo provinces
Fresh US-led strikes hit Islamic State group targets in Syria overnight, both in its Raqa province stronghold and in Aleppo…
US-led strikes hit jihadists attacking Syria
The US-led coalition hit Islamic State group targets around a Syrian town on the Turkish border Saturday where tens of…
Qatar emir denies funding Syria extremists
The emir of Qatar has denied accusations that his country funds extremist groups in Syria, while stressing the Gulf state’s…
Syria refugees disembark from cruise liner in Cyprus
Hundreds of mostly Syrian refugees rescued by a cruise liner in the Mediterranean disembarked in Cyprus on Friday, after hours…
Refugees rescued by cruise ship refuse to disembark
More than 300 mostly Syrian refugees rescued by a cruise liner on Thursday refused to disembark in Cyprus’s southern port…
18 IS jihadists killed fighting Syria Kurds
At least 18 jihadists from the Islamic State group were killed in overnight clashes with Kurdish fighters in northern Syria…
Israel urges global spies to pool resources on IS
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon on Tuesday called for world intelligence agencies to work together against the Islamic State jihadist…
Top Saudi cleric urges Muslims to fight IS jihadists
Saudi Arabia’s top cleric has urged Muslims to confront the “oppressive” Islamic State jihadist group if it fights Muslims after…
Body of Lebanon man kidnapped by jihadists handed to family
The body of a Lebanese civilian kidnapped and killed by jihadists has been handed over to his family in Arsal,…
Britain ready to commit 3,500 troops to new NATO force
Britain could contribute 3,500 troops to a NATO rapid response force designed to meet new threats highlighted by the Ukraine…
American among 18 jihadists killed in Syria raid
The death toll from a Syrian government raid on an Islamic State stronghold in eastern Syria has risen to 18,…
Sotloff family remembers gentle, compassionate soul
The family of murdered US journalist Steven Sotloff paid moving tribute to the reporter on Wednesday, remembering a gentle soul…
Obama to lead Security Council session September 25
President Barack Obama will lead a UN Security Council session on the threat of foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria…
Saudi Arabia beheads 3 Syrian drug traffickers
Three Syrians convicted of drug trafficking were executed by the sword in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the interior ministry announced.…
Britain raises terror threat level on Iraq, Syria fears
Britain raised its terror threat risk level to “severe” on Friday because of fears over the situation in Iraq and…
Obama says ‘no strategy yet’ as IS executes Syrian troops
United States President Barack Obama admitted Thursday that he still does not have a strategy to fight Islamic State jihadists…
UN confirms 43 peacekeepers seized in Syria
The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights…