New York Times | ISIS Attacks Two Towns in Northern Syria New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — The militants of the Islamic State carried out two new offensives in northern Syria on Thursday, entering a provincial capital and detonating large bombs in the border town of Kobani, where intensive airstrikes by a United States-led ... Islamic State kills at least 145 civilians in Syria's Kobani Syria crisis: Islamic State 'kills 120 civilians' in Kobane Islamic State leaves dozens dead in Syria |
CNN | 'Malala of Syria': The inspiring story of one girl's fight to educate refugees CNN Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan (CNN) It's 10:00 a.m. on a Tuesday in this part of the vast, rust-colored expanse of the Jordanian desert, and Mazoun Almellehan doesn't have time to think about all the things she's lost. She's thinking about what comes next. 'Malala of Syria': The inspiring story of one refugee girl fighting to educate ... |
The Guardian | Friends encouraged teenager to follow brother to Syria and join Isis, court hears The Guardian Three young men helped or encouraged a teenager who followed his older brother from Cardiff to Syria to join Islamic State fighters, the Old Bailey has heard. The men, from three different UK towns and cities, were involved in arranging Aseel Muthana's ... Sutton man denied helping teenager flee to Syria to fight with terror group Cardiff man accused of helping Welsh teenager join terrorists in Syria: Video ... Nottinghamshire man denies helping teen fight for Islamic State in Syria |
The Guardian | Syrians respond to 'summer in Syria' tweet with photographic realities of war The Guardian Pictures of colourful Damascus markets, squad photos at pool parties, or panoramas of festival crowds holding glow sticks were not what Syria's state news agency got when it tweeted asking for Syrians to share their summer snaps. Instead, users have ... Syria's Alawites: The People Behind Assad Twitter Users Hijack Syria's #SummerInSyria Campaign With Grisly War Images Syria's pro-Assad 'Summer in Syria' Twitter campaign swamped with images of ... |
Wall Street Journal | Israel's Druse Minority Shows Unity With Its Syrian Kin Wall Street Journal HURFEISH, Israel—The men of this Druse village in the Galilee mountains proudly don shirts from their days in elite Israeli combat units. But now they fear the same military is helping Islamist rebels in neighboring Syria who fight the pro-regime ... Tensions high after Druze attack Israeli medical workers out of fear jihadists ... Druze protests spark Syria war spillover |
CNN | From Syria to solitary: Jordanian teen's journey to jihad and back CNN But instead he used the money to fly to Turkey -- and called his family from Ankara to tell them he was on his way to Syria. "It was a surprise to all of us, especially his mother," his father, Zaid Khader, says. "She was devastated, we were really ... |
NBC Chicago | A Family's Journey From War-Torn Syria To Chicago NBC Chicago Roughly 2,000 Syrian refugees may be relocated to the states this year, with Chicago being among the major cities that will receive them, a recent State Department report indicates. That number is a big jump from the fraction of families who make it to ... |
Open Democracy | Syria: UN special envoy continues consultations on ways to end an escalating ... UN News Centre 26 June 2015 – The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, continues his talks with the parties to the conflict in this country within the framework of the Geneva consultations, having yesterday met with leaders of the Syrian tribes ... The United Nations and a peace process strategy for Syria |
Fox News | ISIS blows up 2 mausoleums in Syria's Palmyra, raising fears that Roman ruins ... Fox News This undated photo released on June 22, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows one of two mausoleums blowing up by the Islamic State militants, in the historic central town of Palmyra, Syria. Syria: ISIS destroys ancient Muslim shrines in Palmyra Islamic State destroys ancient shrines in Syria's Palmyra city Isis destroys Palmyra shrines in Syria |
Deprived of 'checkbook diplomacy' in Yemen and Syria, Saudi Arabia flounders Reuters Blogs (blog) Successive Saudi monarchs have relied on this indirect strategy for decades, as it has delivered domestic political stability and maintained Riyadh's status as a major regional power. However, the recent examples of Syria and Yemen, where Riyadh has ... |