Fox News | Al Qaeda-linked Syria fighters release video purporting to show American ... Fox News BEIRUT – An Al Qaeda-linked group fighting in Syria has released video of the first American to carry out a suicide attack in the country's civil war, showing him smiling and saying he looked forward to going to heaven. The Nusra Front released the new ... Video shows American suicide bomber in Syria Al-Qaeda group releases video of first American suicide bomber in Syria Video Purportedly Shows American Suicide Bomber In Syria |
The Daily Star | Syria Records One of Its Deadliest Weeks Ever ABC News Last week, 700 people died in two days in Syria, in what has been described as the deadliest 48-hour period in the country since its conflict began more than four years ago. And 1,700 are reported to have died in the last seven days, in one of the ... Syria regime retakes gas field from ISIS ISIS 'beheads scores of Syrian soldiers' after daring assault on army base ... 85 Syria troops killed in jihadist takeover: Monitor |
ABC News | Threat From Syria Will Last a Decade, Top Lawmaker Warns ABC News The growing chaos in Iraq and Syria, where thousands of Western recruits have joined terrorist groups to train and fight, is cultivating a global threat that the United States is "going to be dealing with for the next decade," the head of the House ... |
Wall Street Journal | 10000 Bodies: Inside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Crackdown Wall Street Journal A forensic photographer working for Syria's military police walked the rows and took pictures of the emaciated and disfigured corpses, most believed to be anti-Assad activists. Numbers written on the bodies and on white cards, the photographer said ... State Media: Car Bomb in Central Syria Kills 7 The Most Violent 48 Hours Of The Entire Syrian War Centered Around Gas Fields |
New York Daily News | Australian jihadist poses with decapitated heads from Syria on Twitter New York Daily News An Australian jihadist chillingly smiled while holding up several decapitated heads in front of a camera in Syria before spearing them to an iron fence for viewers on Twitter Thursday. Mohamed Elomar, formerly of Sydney, grins in one shot while holding ... 'Bucket full of heads any1 in aus want some organs please dont be shy to ask ... |
Syria's raging civil war and the west's inertia Open Democracy Yet, the Syrian battlefields of this zero-sum game are stalemated. The armed opposition—estimated to comprise more than 5,000 groups—seems strong enough to ensure any further losses it faced would be hard-won. But the power of the regime, controlling ... |
The Daily Star | Jihadists make fresh Syria advance: activists The Daily Star BEIRUT: Islamic State jihadists, building on vast land grabs in Iraq, have seized an army position in the Syrian city of Hasakeh, an activist group said Sunday. On another front in Syria's complex civil war, rebels seeking President Bashar Assad's ... |
Middle East Eye | IS militants make fresh Syria advance Middle East Eye The Islamic State (IS) on Sunday seized an army position in the northeast Syrian city of Hasakeh, amid a major escalation in the militant offensive, a monitor said. On another front in Syria's complex civil war, rebels seeking President Bashar al-Assad ... |
ABC News | How Israel's Ground Offensive in Gaza Could Impact Syria ABC News As the civilian death toll in the Gaza strip climbed past 800 on Friday, the global spotlight shifted from Syria to the Israeli ground offensive in Palestine. The reverberations are being felt in Syria, with which Israel shares a border – and a ... |
Islamic State fighters capture military base in Syria, behead soldiers Los Angeles Times Militants with the Al Qaeda breakaway group Islamic State seized control of a military base in northern Syria late Thursday night, beheading dozens of soldiers and displaying their headless bodies, activists said. It is only the latest victory for the ... |