Daily Mail | Syrian Rebels Shell City of Aleppo, Killing at Least 13 ABC News Syrian rebels fired mortar rounds into government-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo during rush hour Monday, killing 13 people and wounding dozens, state-run TV and an activist group said. The violence was the latest in the flare-up in Aleppo ... Al Qaeda militants in Syria parade captured regime helicopter airman on video Syria helicopter crashes in rebel-held Idlib Islamists capture Syria regime helicopter crew |
Reuters | Islamic State moves west to attack Syrian army in Homs: monitor Reuters Around 200,000 people have been killed since 2011 in Syria's civil war, which pits Assad against a range of rebels including jihadist groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda's Nusra Front. A U.S-led coalition is bombarding Islamic State in both Syria ... Syria has long been a country divided South Syria rebels given more arms IS attacks military airport in Syria |
CNN | 'Brainwashed' foreign medical students went to Syria, Turkish lawmaker says CNN Ediboglu, an opposition lawmaker, told The Observer that he had spoken with the students' families, who were convinced their loved ones wanted to work for ISIS, and were asking him for help tracking them down in neighboring Syria. "They have been ... Medical Students From Britain Are Sought in Syria Nine British medics feared to have crossed into Syria Turkish MP: US, Canadian Med Students Among Group in Syria |
Wall Street Journal | Turkey Tightens Border With Syria Amid Terrorism Fears Wall Street Journal Turkey partially closed its last two border gates into Syria this month amid fears of an impending terror attack, highlighting Ankara's difficulties in coping with a humanitarian crisis on its doorstep while trying to stop the flow of foreign jihadists ... Ismail Hamdoun of Toronto among medical students in ISIS-controlled Syria Canadian believed to be providing aid in IS-controlled region Canadian among group of medical students that travelled to ISIS-controlled ... |
Sydney Morning Herald | Khaled Sharrouf's daughter, 14, marries Mohamed Elomar in Syria: claim Sydney Morning Herald Australian Islamic State member Khaled Sharrouf's 14-year-old daughter has apparently boasted about marrying her father's best friend, Mohamed Elomar, in Syria. Sharrouf and Elomar are fighting with the terrorist group and horrified the world last year ... |
Huffington Post | A Time for Action as Syrian Crisis Enters Its Fifth Year Huffington Post Three and a half years ago, Duha was living in Damascus, Syria, and attending college. She was studying business economics and planning for her future. However, conflict broke out in Syria, interrupting Duha's plans and turning her life upside down ... |
Ottawa Citizen | Eric Morse: Canada's mission should expand to Syria Ottawa Citizen Canada is not now conducting airstrikes in Syria because the Syria of Bashar Assad is still a sovereign member of the UN and Canada will not go there without an invitation (nor, be it said, will several other coalition members). But on the ground, that ... Feds mum whether ISIS military mission expanding into Syria Canada to Extend Anti-IS Mission, Strike Targets in Syria Iraq mission: Stephen Harper to present motion to expand mission into Syria |
The Daily Star | Planet Syria campaign demands peace talks The Daily Star BEIRUT: Civil society groups from across Syria have come together to urge all-inclusive peace talks as the only way to simultaneously end barrel bomb attacks on civilians and the spread of ISIS. The campaign – called Planet Syria – brings together 85 ... How to stop extremism, ISIS? End Syria's civil war, says rights groups |
Military.com | Syria Kurds Yet to be Fully Embraced by US in Anti-ISIS Fight Military.com BEIRUT — For four months, Syrian Kurdish fighters battled the Islamic State group in the rubble-strewn streets of Kobani as U.S. aircraft pounded the extremists from the skies, a joint effort that ultimately expelled the militants from the town and ... Syria Kurds yet to be fully embraced by US in anti-IS fight |
Wall Street Journal | UK to Help Train Syrian Opposition Against ISIS; Stops Short of Airstrikes Wall Street Journal LONDON—Britain plans to participate in a U.S.-led effort to train Syrian opposition troops, according to people familiar with the matter, but it will stop short of joining its closest ally in conducting airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria. The U ... Coalition Continues Airstrikes Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq |