By: Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief 08/08/2014 ( 4:40pm) The Islamic State, formally the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has yet to publish an official response to the US’s military strikes against it in Iraq, but sources close to the IS… Read More ›
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Turkey vows to protect Ottoman tomb in northern Syria from rebels
Source: Reuters – Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:37 PM Author: Reuters * Ankara says Ottoman tomb in Syria is Turkish territory * Islamist militants hold area where tomb is located ISTANBUL, March 14 (Reuters) – Turkey threatened on Friday… Read More ›
Turkey attacks Al Qaeda ‘rebels’ in Syria
Wednesday, 29 January 2014 Turkey’s armed forces have attacked a convoy of al-Qaeda-linked rebel vehicles in Syria, Turkish media reported. The attack on Tuesday evening was in retaliation for cross-border fire earlier in the day, when a mortar shell… Read More ›
Exclusive: Iraq still using bogus bomb detectors – and thousands pay the price
More than 4,500 people have been killed since the conviction of UK businessman, James McCormick, in April Kim Sengupta Wednesday, 2 October 2013 Bogus bomb detectors are still being used in Iraq five months after a British businessman who supplied… Read More ›
Turkey shuts Syria crossing after Qaeda group storms border town
Source: Reuters – Thu, 19 Sep 2013 02:17 PM Author: Reuters * Official says gate closed amid confusion on Syrian side * Clashes now stopped, mediation under way * Fighting shows deep divisions between rebel factions (Adds comments from… Read More ›
Syria: nearly half rebel fighters are jihadists or hardline Islamists, says IHS Jane’s report
Nearly half the rebel fighters in Syria are now aligned to jihadist or hardline Islamist groups according to a new analysis of factions in the country’s civil war. Opposition forces have fragmented into as many as 1,000 bands Photo: Rex Features… Read More ›
Syrian “rebels” executed 450 women and children
Photo: EPA Terrorists and militants of the extremist groups “Dzhebhat-en-Nusra” and “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” who are fighting against the Syrain army attempting to overthrow the president have committed a new massacre in the north of Syria…. Read More ›
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