CNN | Pentagon: US to begin to train and equip moderate Syria rebels CNN "Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar have agreed to host training sites, and we anticipate the program to train and equip the moderate Syrian opposition will take approximately 400 U.S. trainers, with the caveat that this number could fluctuate based on ... US sending 400 troops to train Syria rebels this spring 400 US troops will deploy to train Syrian opposition US To Deploy 400 Troops To Train Syrian Opposition To Defeat ISIS |
www.worldbulletin.net | Islamic State conflict: Militants execute 15 people in Syria BBC News The Islamic State (IS) militant group is reported to have executed 15 people over the past 24 hours in Syria. Some of the victims were shot and crucified, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Horrifying images have also ... Islamic State kills 17 in Syria after hit-and-run attacks ISIL kills 17 in Syria after hit-and-run attacks ISIS behead and shoot dead 17 people in desperate bid to maintain control of ... |
Fox News | Getting serious: US troops headed to train Syrian rebels Hot Air The White House was dragged kicking and screaming into the war against ISIS. Politically and materially, the Obama administration saw few upsides to engaging in the fight against the brutish Islamist militants despite their rapid advance across Syria ... About 1600 Dead in Syria's Kobani as Islamic State Loses Ground Eleven more air strikes hit Islamic State in Syria, Iraq: US military ISIS control of Syria reportedly expands since start of US-led airstrikes |
New York Times | Two Italian Aid Workers Held Hostage in Syria Are Released New York Times ROME — Two Italian women abducted by Islamist militants while doing aid work in northern Syria last year have been freed and are en route home, Italy's government announced Thursday. The women, Greta Ramelli and Vanessa Marzullo, believed to have ... Italian aid workers held hostage in Syria are freed Syria conflict: Italian aid worker hostages freed Two Italian Hostages Held in Syria by Al Qaeda's Nusra Front Are Freed |
Reuters | Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is planning to send more than 400 soldiers to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State along with hundreds of U.S. support personnel, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday. The training mission is expected to ... |
UN News Centre | End Syria's war, UN pleads, as Russia steps up diplomacy Washington Post BEIRUT — A top U.N. official warned Thursday of the consequences of allowing Syria's war to rage unchecked for yet another year as Russia intensified the first diplomatic push in a year to end to the devastating conflict. Expectations that the Russian ... UN to Renew Syria Talks, Seeking Aleppo Cease-Fire UN envoy says Syria set back 40 years by war, calls for renewed push towards ... Kerry: US hopes Russian effort on Syria will succeed |
Daily Mail | Towie fan who travelled to Syria with her toddler son escapes from ISIS ... Daily Mail A Towie fan who who ran away to Syria with her toddler son has escaped from the clutches of ISIS and fled to Turkey after begging border guards not to shoot her. Tareena Shakil from Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire, crossed into Syria last year after ... British mother who travelled to Isis-controlled Syria with toddler son 'flees ... |
Irish Independent | Three young men killed in Syria war were from Ireland Irish Independent It is not known if they knew each other, but they all lived in Leinster - in Navan, Drogheda and Dublin - before they travelled to Syria. The youngest victim was Libyan-born Shamseddin Gaidan (16), from Navan, who was killed in February 2013 after ... Three young men killed in Syria conflict from Ireland |
The Daily Star | ISIS in fierce new attack on Kobani, Syria: activists The Daily Star BEIRUT: ISIS launched a fierce new attack against Syrian Kurdish fighters in Kobani Friday, four months into a battle for the flashpoint town on Turkey's border, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the jihadis tried to ... |
ABC News | How 400 US Troops Will Train Syria's Moderate Opposition to Fight ISIS ABC News Up to 400 American military trainers will begin this spring the next phase in the U.S. strategy against ISIS, training Syrian moderate rebels to fight the militant group inside Syria, Pentagon officials said today. But which rebels will be trained by ... |