The Guardian | US-led air strikes against Isis in Syria 'killed 10 civilians' The Guardian The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said seven civilians were killed when an air strike hit a gas plant near the town of al-Khasham is the eastern Deir al-Zor province on Friday, and three civilians were killed in an air strike on Thursday ... Airstrikes target Islamic State oil facilities in Syria 10 civilians killed in US-led airstrikes in Syria – watchdog US-led strike kills 8 in IS-held Syria town |
The Economist | Bashar Assad may be weaker than he thinks The Economist The Syrian Observatory, a British-based monitoring group, reckons the regime carried out 40 air strikes (from both jets and helicopters dropping barrel-bombs) in the provinces of Hama and Idleb on October 13th, double the usual daily number of 13-20 ... Fareed Zakaria: Obama needs to dial back his Syria strategy Syria: The Danger of Fighting Both Sides At Once |
New York Times | ISIS Militants in Syrian Border Town Begin to Retreat After a Monthlong Battle New York Times SURUC, Turkey — The advance of Islamic State forces on the Syrian city of Kobani has stalled as the militants have been forced to retreat on several fronts, shifting the monthlong battle increasingly in favor of the Kurdish fighters defending the city ... |
Islamic State Militants Have Been Flying 3 Captured Warplanes Over Syrian ... Huffington Post BEIRUT, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time the militant group had taken ... |
NPR (blog) | Syria's 'Moderate Rebels' Say They Are Willing, But Need Weapons NPR (blog) At a park in the shadow of the Urfa fortress, Ahmed Askar, a 29-year-old commander recounts his battle experience in Syria. Above him are cliffs that contain the ruins of the palace where legend has it that the pagan king Nimrod ordered the burning of ... |
Fox News | Old rivalries keeping Turkey on sidelines of Syria fight, analysts say Fox News Old geopolitical rivalries are throwing a wrench into U.S. efforts to bring Turkey on board with the mission to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State in a Syrian border town. The country's bigger enemy, some analysts say, is still Bashar al-Assad. So ... |
The Times of Israel | Russian spying from Syria: Why and for whom? The Times of Israel The Free Syrian Army revealed in an October 5 video that the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate's OSNAC unit – its signals intelligence unit, much like the American NSA or Unit 8200 in Israel – had been operating from within a Syrian regime base ... |
US airstrikes in Syria are now dwarfing those in Iraq, thanks to the fight for ... Washington Post The Syrian border town of Kobane is still in danger of falling to the Islamic State, more than a week after the U.S. military began launching airstrikes on militants there regularly. Hundreds of fighters have been killed, the Pentagon's press secretary ... |
Airstrikes hit ISIS targets in Syria, Iraq CNN (CNN) -- Airstrikes like those that have helped slow the advance of ISIS fighters in the Syrian town of Kobani rocked the city again Saturday. A huge plume of smoke rose over the city's center in the aftermath of an apparent airstrike that hit the area ... |
Fight for Syrian City Strains Jihadists Wall Street Journal Islamic State's protracted battle for the Syrian city of Kobani against an expanding U.S.-led military campaign and Kurdish militia is straining the insurgency, Syrian opposition activists, Kurdish politicians and U.S. officials said. The militant ... |