Wall Street Journal | Losses to ISIS in Iraq Spur US to Rethink Syria Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—The Sunni militant advance in Iraq has reignited a debate in the Obama administration over its policy toward Syria, increasing pressure on the president to act more aggressively against a growing regional threat, according to current and ... Syrian warplanes strike in Iraq, killing 57 civilians, official says Syrian aircraft bomb Sunni militant targets inside Iraq Kerry issues warning after Syria bombs Iraq |
Fox News | 'Flashpoint'? US officials concerned about Iran, Syria intervention in Iraq Fox News Indications that Iran and Syria are providing military support to Iraq's Shiite government are raising red flags in the Obama administration, with top officials voicing concern that their involvement could create a "flashpoint" that only deepens ... Kerry warns Mideast nations after Syria bombs Iraq Syrian warplanes cross into Iraq to attack ISIS strongholds as Assad tries to ... Al-Qaeda merges with Isis at Syria-Iraq border town |
West Hawaii Today | Crisis in Syria: Civil War, Global Threat Huffington Post The horrific war in Syria continues to worsen and bleed beyond its borders. A cold calculation seems to be taking hold: that little can be done except to arm the parties and watch the conflict rage. The international community must not abandon the ... Syria may still have hidden chemical weapons, OPCW admits Muscular diplomacy [Editorial] Syria's Chemical Weapons: What Happens Next? June 24th, 2014 · 2 min read |
New York Times | Global watchdog: Syria has shipped out its last 'declared' chemical weapons CNN (CNN) -- The final stockpile of Syria's chemical weapons has been shipped out of the country, according to the OPCW, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Ahmet Uzumcu, the chief of the international watchdog organization, said the ... Last of Syria's Known Chemical Arms Are Shipped Abroad for Destruction Last of Syria's chemical weapons handed over for destruction, international ... Removal of Chemical Weapons From Syria Is Completed |
New York Daily News | Father who traveled to Syria to track down jihadist son among Al Qaeda ... New York Daily News Dimitri Bontinck, of Antwerp, traveled to the most treacherous regions in Syria last year to track down his son, Jejoen, after the boy took up arms alongside radical Sunni militias fighting to topple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, CNN ... From hip-hop dancer to jihadist: How dad tracked down son in Syria |
TheBlaze.com | The Savage Way an Islamist Group Purportedly Punished Two Thieves in Syria ... TheBlaze.com Rebels with the Al-Nusra Front in Syria have posted a video of the harsh punishment they purportedly meted out to two accused thieves recently: cutting off their hands. In the video, the radical Islamist group's Shariah Committee in Al-Bukamal, in ... |
Western-born jihadists rally to ISIS's fight in Iraq and Syria CNN (CNN) -- The extremist Sunni militants sweeping across Iraq may have a singular goal, but there's a broad coalition of recruits from outside of the Middle East willing to help them achieve it. The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS ... |
Fox News | Syria: 4 killed, 9 wounded in Israeli airstrikes Fox News June 22, 2014: Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka ... Israel Strikes Syria After Youth Is Killed Israeli rockets strike targets in Syria in retaliation for killing of teen in ... Israeli airstrikes hit Syria targets |
Did Syria ignore ISIS threat on its own territory? CBS News Email; More +. The radical group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, whose fighters recently swept through central Iraq, had first dug in in Eastern Syria, yet their forces did not seem to be targeted by the Syrian army the way other rebel ... |
BBC News | Father: Teenager fighting in Syria was 'radicalised by imam' BBC News The father of a British teenager who travelled to Syria to join jihadists believes his son was radicalised by an imam at a UK mosque. Rahim Kalantar told the BBC his son Ali, 18, travelled to Syria with two friends from Coventry in March and believed ... Jihadists in UK deterred by Syria and Iraq war images, says Cressida Dick Families of two more British teenagers fighting in Syria speak of 'limitless ... Worried father says two more Coventry teenagers are fighting in Syria with ... |