Al-Arabiya | US-led coalition airstrikes pound ISIS stronghold in Syria Fox News The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Syria pounded the militant group's de facto capital with as many as 30 airstrikes Sunday, activists told the Associated Press. The strikes targeted the group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, in their ... Airstrikes mark shift in coalition focus to ISIS 'capital' Bombs over Syria Thirty US-led strikes hit Islamic State in Syria's Raqqa: monitoring group Flesh-eating maggot disease surfaces in Syria |
Yahoo News | Canada 'aware' of reports that citizen kidnapped in Syria Yahoo News Washington (AFP) - Canada said Sunday it was "aware of reports" that one of its nationals may have been kidnapped in Syria, amid suggestions it could have been a woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Kobane. The US-based monitoring group SITE ... Gill Rosenberg, Canadian citizen, reportedly captured by ISIS in Syria Canadian citizen may have been captured in Syria |
Aljazeera.com | Fighters in Syria recruited 'for a cause' Aljazeera.com French authorities have accused a Senegal-born French national of being the main recruiter of fighters from the country to Syria's civil war, which he claims to have done using online platforms. In a tape obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera, 39-year-old ... |
Aljazeera.com | ISIL suffers heavy losses in Syria's Kobane Aljazeera.com ISIL had hoped to quickly seize the small border town and secure its grip on a large stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border, but Kurdish Syrian fighters, backed by US-led air strikes and an influx of Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces, have held back the group. |
At least 50 ISIS fighters killed in Syria's Kobane Al-Arabiya Meanwhile, a U.S.-led coalition on Saturday carried out at least 30 air strikes in Syria against ISIS in the northern province of Raqqa, the Observatory reported. The air strikes hit ISIS positions in the northern outskirts of Raqqa city, a major ... |
BBC News | What if the Syria crisis were happening in the UK? BBC News Understanding the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Syria can be difficult. So imagine this: what if Syria were the UK? Say you are one of the 2.5m people who live in the huge conurbation of Greater Manchester. And then you leave, all of you, exit ... |
At least 40 fighters killed in Syrian city of Kobani CNN (CNN) -- At least 40 fighters on both sides were killed as Syrian Kurdish fighters and ISIS militants clashed in the northern Syrian city of Kobani, a monitoring group said Saturday. Kurdish fighters belonging to the People's Protection Units, known as ... |
ISIS Launches Attack On Syria's Kobani From Turkey: Activists Huffington Post The assault began when a suicide bomber driving an armored vehicle detonated his explosives on the border crossing between Kobani and Turkey, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria's ... |
New York Times | Palestinian Refuge for 6 Decades, Now Flooded From Syria New York Times Now, a new wave of refugees, this time from Syria, has roughly doubled the population of Shatila and the neighboring camp, Sabra, to 40,000, aid workers say. The newcomers, pouring into narrow streets and cramped concrete-block apartments, are among ... Inside the deluge of Syrian refugees Syria crisis: Britain's response to humanitarian disaster 'woefully inadequate ... |
Syria to press ahead with fighting terrorism: Officials Press TV “The Syrian government continues fighting terrorism wherever it may be present on Syrian soil, and provide all needed support to the Syrian armed forces,” al-Halqi said, adding, “The government will also continue working to reach a comprehensive ... |