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 outspoken new U.N. envoy on Syria is briefing the Security Council for the first time after visiting key countries with influence on any possible solution to the deeply entrenched conflict. Staffan de Mistura is the third such envoy to try to bring the more than three-year civil war to[…]
The Al Imdaad Foundation is continuing its efforts to assist thousands of Syrians who have been left destitute due to the conflict between loyalists to President Bashar al Assad, rebels and now with the Islamic State’s territorial gain. While fighting continues, Syrian citizens are fleeing for survival and some thousands[…]
British police have taken a 25-year-old woman into custody on suspicion of radical offences related to the ongoing civil war in Syria, officials have said. Officers from London’s Counter Terrorism Command said on Wednesday that they had detained the woman in Bedfordshire, north of the capital, on suspicion of preparing[…]
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[…]
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[…]
British counter-terrorism police are struggling with “exceptionally high” numbers of investigations and discovering several plots a year, their chief said on Friday. “So far this year we have made 218 arrests and are running exceptionally high numbers of counter-terrorism investigations, the likes of which we have not seen for several[…]
OPINION by Shafiq Morton WHO exactly is ISIS or Da’ish – or to give it its latest acronym – the IS? The Islamic State in Syria (or the Levant), which governs a self-proclaimed Caliphate in the conflict-torn zones of Syria and Iraq, lays claim to a holy war against imperialism.[…]
Fighters from ISIL have penetrated the Syrian town Kobane for the first time, sparking street-to-street fighting and an order from its Kurdish defenders for all civilians to flee. Two black ISIL flags were seen flying on Kobane’s eastern side on Monday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, while[…]
Heavy clashes erupted on Friday between Kurdish militiamen and Islamic State fighters who have besieged a key Syrian town near the Turkish border, an AFP correspondent reported. IS militants in Syria have advanced to within just a few kilometres of the eastern and southeastern edges of Kobane, known as Ain[…]
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