Washington Times | US Strikes in Iraq Against Jihadists, Moving West Toward Syria TIME The U.S. military took a unilateral giant step toward bombing targets inside Syria over the weekend as it swung its crosshairs west and began bombing Islamic militants in the western Iraq province that borders Bashar al-Assad's war-ravaged country. Returning Lawmakers to Weigh Funds for Syria Andrea Mitchell Criticizes Obama on Attempt to Avoid Fighting ISIS in Syria ... Top Democrats want Obama's ISIS strategy to address Syria |
ABC News | With US Considering Strikes Against Syria, Reflections and Realities from Iraq ABC News As the Obama administration debates expanding its air offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from Iraqi Kurdistan into eastern Syria, its main challenge remains finding a reliable military partner on the ground. We asked Douglas ... |
VICE News | US and Syrian Airstrikes Hit Islamic State Targets in Iraq and Syria VICE News At least 25 people are dead after Syrian forces launched a series of air attacks on an Islamic State-run bakery and other militant targets in the northeastern city of Raqqa on Saturday. At least three children and eight members of a single family were ... Syrian conflict: Assad forces 'hit IS-run bakery' Obama Doesn't Trust America's Best Allies In Syria Why Airstrikes in Syria Won't Work |
Irish Independent | Foreign Affairs Minister: 'I don't want Irish troops sucked into Syrian civil war' Irish Independent In a statement on Friday, al-Nusra, which has carried out atrocities in Syria, said it was going to try the Fijian soldiers before a Sharia court. The Filipinos refused to surrender and after a gun battle with the Islamists, and supported by the Irish ... Report: Israeli troops saved Irish peacekeepers on Syria border Syria rebels advance near Israeli-occupied Golan Heights 43 killed in clashes between Syria forces, militants |
BBC News | Hostage Says Suspect in Jewish Museum Killings Was One of His Captors New York Times PARIS — A French journalist held hostage for months by extremists in Syria identified one of his captors Saturday as a Frenchman suspected of later killing four at the Brussels Jewish Museum, saying the militant had taken sadistic delight in ... Jewish Museum gun suspect 'was captor in Syria' French Ex-Hostage Identifies ISIS Captor as Suspect in Brussels Attack Syria Hostage Names Brussels Suspect As Captor |
Johnson: Troops may have to enter Syria to wipe out ISIS Herald Times Reporter But when a member of the chamber posed the question of how the United States should handle the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which has beheaded two American journalists and wreaked havoc in the region, Johnson, who sits on the Committee on ... |
Al-Arabiya | 'Severing the link': Lawmakers, experts call for coordinated attack on ISIS ... Fox News As President Obama and U.S. allies weigh the next steps in the fight against the Islamic State, lawmakers and military analysts say the strategy for uprooting the terror network must involve striking at its headquarters in Raqqa, Syria – using ... MAP: Islamic State's brutal massacres in Syria and Iraq To fight the Islamic State, end the war in Syria ISIS builds government in northeast Syria |
Newsweek | Underground Journalism Is Keeping the Fight Against Assad Alive in Syria Newsweek The show is about what we civilians are suffering in Syria—water problems, no food, how to deal with the issues—but it's funny,” explains Khaleel Agha, the 43-year-old manager of Halab Today TV, a satellite-TV channel of Syria's opposition forces ... |
Wall Street Journal | Intelligence Gaps Crippled Mission in Syria to Rescue Hostages James Foley ... Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—On a moonless night in early July, several dozen Army Delta Force commandos touched down at an oil-storage facility in eastern Syria. The plan: Neutralize the terrorist guards, search a makeshift prison, find American journalists James ... Report: US attempted rescue mission for Sotloff and Foley in Syria Security Council condemns 'cowardly' murder of journalist in Syria, demands ... US intelligence gaps crippled mission to rescue hostages held by ISIS, report says |
Reuters India | After Syria and Iraq, Islamic State makes inroads in South Asia Reuters India A splinter group of Pakistan's Taliban insurgents, Jamat-ul Ahrar, has already declared its support for the well-funded and ruthless Islamic State fighters, who have captured large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in a drive to set up a self ... |