Today's Zaman | Obama rules out alliance with Syria's Assad against ISIS Al-Arabiya Obama has built an international coalition against IS as it rampages across both Syria and Iraq. The coalition in September launched its first air strikes against the militants, using Syrian air space, and Obama is deploying up to 1,500 more U.S ... PM says received strong signals from US over changing Syria policy Obama rules out alliance with Syria's Assad against Islamic State Obama's Syria zigzag |
Aljazeera.com | UN: ISIL committing war crimes in Syria Aljazeera.com In its first report focused squarely on acts by ISIL, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria presented on Friday a horrifying picture of what life was like in areas controlled by the group, including massacres, beheadings, torture, sexual enslavement ... UN says Islamic State imposing rule of terror in Syria Military Airstrikes Continue Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq Obama seeks review of Syria strategy, sees Assad removal as necessary: CNN |
Fox News | ISIS beheading, stoning and crucifying Syrian residents, UN report says Fox News ISIS is beheading and stoning men, women and children in Syria, leaving crucified bodies in public squares for days and engaging in rape and torture, according to a new U.N. report released Friday. The report, entitled the “Rule of Terror: Living under ... Obama, Khamenei and the making of Syrian tragedy November 14th, 2014 · 2 min read Syria: The Executive Summary, 11/14 'Americans do not have any coherent policy in Syria' |
Aljazeera.com | Peter Kassig killed by ISIS, Obama confirms CBS News BEIRUT - The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, or ISIL) released a graphic video on Sunday in which a black-clad militant claimed to have beheaded U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, who was captured last year and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman while ... ISIL beheads Syria troops and US aid worker He found his calling in Syria Peter Kassig's aid work in Syria, in his own words |
Reuters | US weighs expanded CIA training, arming of Syrian allies struggling against Assad Washington Post The Obama administration has been weighing plans to escalate the CIA's role in arming and training fighters in Syria, a move aimed at accelerating covert U.S. support to moderate rebel factions while the Pentagon is preparing to establish its own ... What are al-Nusra Front's plans in Syria? Syria rebels in south emerge as West's last hope as moderates crushed elsewhere Western-backed Syrian rebels hemorrhaging on multiple fronts: assassinations ... |
Christian Science Monitor | Lebanon's Druze, unhappily, are being dragged into Syria's war Christian Science Monitor The minority Druze are split over whom to support in Syria - with some community leaders backing Assad as the best chance for their own survival. But others, like Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, disagree. Druze leaders debate Jumblatt's approach to Syria Lebanon's Druze Are Being Dragged Into Syria's War |
The Daily Star | New US-led strikes on Syria's Kobani: monitor The Daily Star He said the explosions could be heard 20 kilometers from Kobani, and shook the cars of people with him on the border between Turkey and Syria. In southern Kobani, meanwhile, the Britain-based Observatory said fierce clashes underway for the past three ... New US-led strikes on Syria's Kobane Child soldiers fight against Islamic State in Syria Syria: Some 1200 killed in Kobane |
Wall Street Journal | Qatari Official Warns on US-Led Airstrikes in Syria Wall Street Journal DOHA, Qatar—Airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria are strengthening President Bashar al-Assad and risk further stoking tensions between the Middle East's Sunni and Shiite communities, said the foreign minister of Qatar, an Arab member of ... |
The Guardian | Sydney brothers are 'simple boys' who missed flight to join Islamic State in ... Sydney Morning Herald Four Sydney brothers who are believed to have joined Islamic State jihadists in Syria are "simple boys" who were so disorganised they missed their original flight out of Australia and had to rebook tickets for the following day, according to their ... Four Sydney brothers suspected of travelling to Syria to fight with Isis Four Australian brothers believed to join ISIS in Syria, family devastated Islamic State: Four Sydney brothers believed to have joined IS fighters in Syria |
'Jihadi John' and British extremists in Syria and Iraq face a violent death ... Telegraph.co.uk He declined to comment on the reports that he had been wounded, but said: “I think the point is clear that if people travel to Syria or Iraq in order to conduct terror operations against British people,. British citizens or people back here in Britain ... |