US legislators have voted to authorise training and arming of vetted Syrian rebels to combat fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which controls large parts of Iraq and Syria. The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 273 to 156 to approve President Barack Obama’s train-and-equip[…]
At least 48 people have been killed in Syrian government air bombardment around a town in the central province of Homs, a monitoring group says. Two days of air strikes left women, children and men including rebels among the dead, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which[…]
Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the rebel-held northern Iraqi city of Tikrit after a new push to retake the city met heavy resistance, soldiers involved in the operation said. Government troops and allied Shia volunteer fighters were forced to retreat just before sunset on Tuesday to a base 4km south[…]
Joining a chorus of Muslim condemnations, Balkans Muslims have dismissed the declaration of the establishment of a so-called Islamic “caliphate” by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). “It has no relation to religion affairs, they are lying to people,” Osman Mucollari, an Albanian taxi driver in Tirana,[…]
The Iraqi military has launched air raids against armed groups trying to capture the country’s largest oil refinery, killing as many as 30 fighters, authorities said. News of the latest attack on Friday came as government forces claimed to have recaptured the village of the late dictator Saddam Hussein, and[…]
The declaration of a new Islamic “Caliphate” by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been criticized by wide circles of Syrian and Iraqi Sunni scholars and Islamic groups, saying the terms of a true Islamic Caliphate have been realized at present time. “Those who announced it[…]
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