Tag: Syria
IS executes ‘dozens’ of captured Syrian soldiers
Islamic State fighters have executed “dozens” of Syrian soldiers it captured during its storming of a key northern air base…
Syria’s Assad forms government, appoints 11 new ministers
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad formed a new government on Wednesday, two months after his reelection, leaving key ministries untouched as…
US to track jihadists in Syria with spy planes
The United States is poised to send spy planes into Syria to track Islamic State jihadists whose advances have sparked…
Syria army kills 32 rebels in Daraa ambush
Syrian troops killed 32 rebels in an ambush in the southern province of Daraa early on Sunday, a monitoring group…
Jihadists seize last Syrian army post in Raqa
Jihadists from the Islamic State group have seized the Tabqa military airport, the last remaining Syrian army base in northern…
Netanyahu: Gaza offensive to continue as long as necessary
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his ministers on Sunday that the military campaign against Gaza militants would continue until…
German kidnapped by jihadists released in Syria
A 27-year old German kidnapped in Syria by militants from the Islamic State around a year ago has been released,…
Morocco arrests two IS jihadists
Morocco said on Friday it had arrested two Islamic State jihadists who had been planning to leave for IS training…
Singapore, Australia to boost intelligence sharing on jihadis
Australia and Singapore vowed Friday to enhance intelligence sharing in the face of growing fears about the threat posed by…
UN chief slams ‘paralysis’ on Syria as death toll tops 191,000
More than 191,000 people have died in Syria, United Nations rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday, hitting out at “international…
Americans among 12,000 foreign fighters in Syria
Some 12,000 foreign jihadists from 50 countries, including Americans, have gone to fight in Syria since the conflict began, the…
UK voices ‘absolute horror’ at IS beheading
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Wednesday voiced his “absolute horror” at the apparent beheading of US journalist James Foley,…
Jihadists claim beheading of US journalist
Jihadist group the Islamic State on Tuesday claimed to have executed American journalist James Foley in revenge for US air…
Syria troops retake key town outside Damascus
Syrian government forces on Thursday retook a key town on the outskirts of the capital Damascus after a months-long battle…
Australian grandfather in tears at severed head photo
The grandfather of a boy pictured holding a severed head in Syria said the shocking image brought him to tears,…
Wounded Syrian baby saved from mother’s womb
Syrian regime air raids killed 12 people on Sunday and wounded 23, including a mother and a baby boy removed…
Jihadists seize Syria army base, behead soldiers
Islamic State fighters have seized a Syrian army base in the northern province of Raqa, killing scores of troops and…
85 Syria troops killed in jihadist takeover
At least 85 Syrian soldiers were killed, some of them beheaded, as the jihadist Islamic State took over a base…
Qaeda releases video of US suicide bomber in Syria
Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate has released a video of a US suicide bomber who blew himself up at an army post…
Jihadists kill at least 50 Syria troops in ambush
Jihadists from the Islamic State group killed at least 50 Syrian soldiers in an ambush on Friday, summarily executing most…
France nabs three suspected jihadists
Two men and a woman have been arrested in a dawn raid in southern France on suspicion of recruiting fighters…
IS jihadists kill 90 in Syria gas field takeover
Jihadists killed at least 90 Syrian regime fighters, civilian security guards and employees when they seized a gas field in…
Mother of rescued Syria baby appeals for help
The mother of a two-month-old Syrian baby rescued from the rubble of a bombed Aleppo building appealed on Saturday for…
Eight members of a family killed in Syria raid
Eight members of a single family were killed on Saturday when Syrian aircraft dropped explosive-packed barrel bombs on a town…
US teen charged with trying to help jihadists
A United States teenager who agreed to marry a fighter from the militant network that is threatening to overrun Iraq…
Obama set to hand Syrian rebels $500m aid
The United States President Barack Obama, is seeking approval from Congress for 500 million dollars aid to train moderate Syrian…
Israel accuses Assad forces of border attack
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that military forces loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad…
Syria air raids kill 16 in Deir Ezzor
Air raids killed 16 people in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province Saturday, most of them people gathered at a mourning tent…
Jihadists execute three Syria rebel officers
Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have executed three officers of the Western and Arab-backed…
Father of British jihadist shocked over online video
The father of a British man who left to fight in Syria said on Saturday he “wants to cry” after…