Iraqi security forces have entered the country’s largest refinery for the first time after months of battling fighters who had surrounded it, according to an Iraqi police colonel and state television. If confirmed, the recovery of the Beiji facility from ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,[…]
A video has been circulated online purporting to show members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group beheading several Syrian soldiers and a US aid worker. The footage, released on Sunday, showed the beheading of at least 12 people whom ISIL said were pilots and officers[…]
Iraqi government forces have reached within a kilometre of the country’s biggest oil refinery, two army officers and a witness have said. It is the closest they have come to breaking an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) siege of the facility during months of fighting, Reuters news[…]
France’s foreign minister has called for the US-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to help rebels in Syria’s second city Aleppo hold out against the Damascus regime. Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday that the coalition should not battle ISIL to the exclusion of supporting[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has killed at least 200 people from the Albu Nimr tribe, which had taken up arms against the fighters, police officers cited by news agencies said. Women and children were said to be among those executed over the past 10 days[…]
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have shelled the border crossing between Syria and Turkey in their latest attempt to stop an expected arrival of Kurdish troops from Iraq to help defend Kobane. Friday’s bombardment of the Mursitpinar post came a day after a first contingent[…]
US and allied aircraft have flown nearly 6,600 sorties in the air war against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and dropped more than 1,700 bombs, the American military said. The flights for “Operation Inherent Resolve” include thousands of mid-air fueling runs, surveillance sorties and 632[…]
Kurdish fighters in the battle for the Syrian town of Kobane weathered a fresh onslaught by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they awaited promised reinforcements from Iraq. The Kurdish militia faced fierce attacks on Tuesday, fresh from heavy battles on Monday evening in which[…]
Turkey has said it is helping Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to cross its borders to join Syrian Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group for the Syrian town of Kobane. “We are assisting Peshmerga forces to cross into Kobane,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told[…]
The Syrian border town of Kobane has been hit by the fiercest fighting in days as Kurdish forces repelled advancing fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group monitoring the violence has said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 48 mortars[…]
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