BBC News | Consider Syria IS strikes, MPs urged BBC News MPs should consider allowing Britain to bomb Islamic State targets in Syria, the defence secretary is to say. The RAF has been carrying out strikes in Iraq since September but Michael Fallon will say Parliament should look at the case for missions in ... UK strategy of not attacking Isis in Syria is illogical, says defence secretary Tunisia attack: Parliament may authorise air strikes against Isis targets in ... Britain could start bombing Syria, admits Defence Secretary Michael Fallon |
Reuters | Syrian Kurds say thwart big Islamic State attack on border town Reuters BEIRUT A Syrian Kurdish militia said it had recovered full control of the border town of Tel Abyad on Wednesday after Islamic State fighters raided its outskirts the day before in preparation for a larger assault. Backed by U.S.-led air strikes, the ... Are Jordan and Turkey Invading Syria? Syria's Kurds warn Turkey not to intervene militarily Turkey prepares Syria invasion to break ISIL … and the Kurds |
The Guardian | Luton family of 12 feared to have gone to Syria The Guardian Police are investigating suggestions that 12 members of one British family, including a baby, have travelled to regions in Syria controlled by Islamic State after going missing in Turkey. The family from Luton, Bedfordshire, ranging from small ... Family Of 12 Feared To Have Gone To Syria Luton family of 12 'may have gone to Syria' Family of 12 feared to have travelled to Syria |
BBC News | Syrian rebels filmed shooting Islamic State militants BBC News A hardline Islamist rebel group in Syria has released a video showing its fighters shooting dead a group of alleged Islamic State (IS) militants. Reversing the imagery of beheadings by the jihadist group, Jaysh al-Islam members wearing orange outfits ... Islamic State: Video shows Syrian rebel group Jaysh al-Islam executing 18 ... Taste of their own medicine: Syrian rebels execute ISIS terrorists, mimicking ... Video shows Syria rebel group executing 18 IS fighters |
Newsweek | Ambulance lynching reveals Israel's secret war in Syria Newsweek On 22 June, the tension on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, a mountainous plateau that the country shares with Syria after occupying most of it in 1967, boiled over into violence. First an Israeli military ambulance was stopped in the village of ... Druze Loyalties To Israel, and Relatives In Syria, Complicate Life In The Golan |
Sydney Morning Herald | Queensland surfie Reece Harding dies fighting with Kurds in Syria Sydney Morning Herald His parents believed it was the rapes and beheadings by Islamic State fighters that prompted Reece Harding to die fighting for the Kurdish peshmerga in Syria. But his mates think it was also the Queenslander's unselfish nature that would have been his ... Australian dies fighting against ISIS in Syria Australian man Reece Harding killed helping Kurds fight Isis in Syria – reports Australian Reece Harding 'killed in Syria fighting against ISIL' |
AirForceTimes.com | Air Force: Lost Predator was shot down in Syria AirForceTimes.com The Air Force has acknowledged that an MQ-1B Predator, lost March 17 during an intelligence flight over Syria, was shot down. While Syria's official news agency at the time claimed the remotely piloted aircraft was shot down, U.S. Defense Department ... |
Washington Times | Islamic State nears Syria's chemical weapons stockpile; U.S. unprepared for attack Washington Times The U.S. government is unprepared for a chemical attack against the homeland, a new report shows, even as the Islamic State takes responsibility for more terror attacks around the world and inches closer to gaining access to Syria's chemical weapons ... |
Daily Times | Child Labor Rises Sharply in Syria, Upended by War and Mayhem New York Times Save the Children and the United Nations Children's Fund, which collaborated on the report released Wednesday, said that children were working in more than 75 percent of households surveyed inside Syria. Among the Syrian war refugees surveyed in ... Short of cash, UN cuts Syria refugees' rations again |
Business Insider | Israeli defense official: 'Syria is gone' Business Insider A senior Israeli defense official said President Bashar Assad controlled just a fifth of Syria and may end up in charge of a rump state dominated by his minority Alawite sect. Israel and its neighbor Syria are long-term enemies, but the remarks by Amos ... Assad Goes on Spinning as Syria Burns Top Israeli security official: Syria is dying, funeral on the way |