NPR (blog) | Have The Islamist Militants Overreached In Iraq And Syria? NPR (blog) The Islamist radicals who have declared an Islamic caliphate on land they control straddling Iraq and Syria are waging an audacious publicity stunt, according to some analysts. While it may bring them even greater attention, it's also likely to be an ... Islamic State Militants Seize Syria's Al-Tanak Oil Field Syria Rebel Chief Warns of "Disaster" Without Aid Islamic State: Undermining Syrian revolution? |
Al-Arabiya | ISIS militants seize another oil field in Syria's Deir el-Zour Al-Arabiya Islamic militants seized an eastern Syrian oil field near Iraq and inched closer to the Turkish border on Friday as they try to consolidate their control of an area along the length of the Euphrates river stretching through Syria and Iraq. The Britain ... |
Islamic Militants Seize Syria Oil Field ABC News Islamic militants seized an eastern Syrian oil field early Friday as they try to consolidate their control of an area along the length of the Euphrates river stretching through Syria and Iraq. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ... |
The Daily Star | A Rogue State Along Two Rivers New York Times The militant group called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria seemed to surprise many American and Iraqi officials with the recent gains it made in its violent campaign to create a new religious state. But the victories achieved in the past few weeks ... ISIS Captures Syrian Towns, Key Oil Field ISIS seizes key Syria oil field near Iraq New video shows Isis fighters in control of Syria's biggest oil field |
CBS News | ISIS bombed in Iraq, but advances in Syria CBS News Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremist group, who have overrun much of northern and western Iraq, have been trying for weeks to capture the Beiji facility, located some 155 miles north of Baghdad. The group appeared on the ... |
WalesOnline | Isis, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraq and Syria: Everything you need to know WalesOnline Al-Baghdadi is not recruiting forces to fight for the creation of a democracy in Syria and an end to human rights abuses. He has a Napoleonic vision of world domination, as you can see from this recent statement: “Rush O Muslims to your state. It is ... Nusra Front weakened in Syria by ISIS Islamic State: Analysts ISIS losing ground in Iraq, gaining it in Syria Militant Leader in Rare Appearance in Iraq |
Yahoo News | Eight members of one family killed in Syria raid: NGO Yahoo News Elsewhere, the Observatory said 15 Syrian Kurdish fighters had been killed since Friday in clashes with the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group in the Zur Maghar area of Aleppo province in north Syria. The IS seized Zur Maghar and nearby Bayada on Friday ... |
BBC News | Syria conflict: UK planned to train and equip 100000 rebels BBC News The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army to defeat President Bashar al-Assad, BBC Newsnight can reveal. The secret initiative, put forward two years ago, was the brainchild of the then most senior UK military officer, ... UK military's secret plan to train Syrian rebels to topple Bashar al-Assad Syria conflict: Britain 'planned to train 100000-strong rebel army to take on ... Secret UK plan to 'train 100000 Syria rebels' exposed |
BBC News | NI man 'may have joined Syria fight' U.TV "Ireland has no embassy in Syria and, if the consulate has to close at short notice, it's extremely unlikely that we'll be able to provide any consular assistance to Irish citizens who decide to remain in Syria." By all accounts, Eamon was a fairly ... PSNI investigates reports of Derry man in Syria |
CNN | Group: ISIS takes major Syrian oil field CNN (CNN) -- The extremist Sunni militant group that recently declared a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq wrested control of a major Syrian oil field in a sweeping land grab Thursday, a UK-based monitoring group said. A string of villages and towns ... |