Iraq
Jordanian jets return after striking at Islamic State targets in Syria: sources
Tag Archives: Syria
Iraq
Jordan considers expanding role in Coalition to hit Islamic State in Iraq
Syria
Rebel shelling rocks Syrian capital
Syria
At least eight people were wounded and possibly five killed after the Islam Army, a Syrian rebel group, attacked Damascus with a barrage of rockets and mortar rounds. At least 54 rebels may have been killed after regime troops attacked their positions in the Damascus suburb of Douma, according to Xinhua via Syrian National TV. […]
Iraq
United Arab Emirates, key US ally in Islamic State effort, disengaged in December
Iraq
Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot’s death
Islamic State
Islamic State kills 50 captives in Syria this year
Analysis: DIA head warns al Qaeda in Syria may gain ground in 2015
Lieutenant General Vincent R. Stewart, the director of the DIA, testified before the House Armed Services Committee yesterday. Stewart warned that al Qaeda in Syria may gain ground in 2015, the Islamic State remains capable of launching offensive operations despite the coalition’s air campaign, and the Taliban-led insurgency has fought its opposition to a stalemate in Afghanistan.
Iraq
Jordan to execute jailed would-be bomber, jihadists
Islamic State burns captured Jordanian pilot alive
First Lieutenant Mu’adh Yusuf al Kasasibah was burned alive in a cage by Islamic State fighters.
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front claimed responsibility for bombing a bus of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims visiting a Syrian shrine in Damascus on Feb. 1, killing six people. The Western-backed rebel Hazzm movement has reportedly joined the Levantine Front, a coalition of other Syrian rebel groups, in a bid to strengthen itself against Al Nusrah. The Islamic […]
Islamic State admits its forces withdrew from Kobane
Two fighters featured in an Islamic State video credited the air campaign by the US-led Coalition with forcing their retreat.
Hezbollah
Israel, Hezbollah signal their flare-up is over
Iraq
Islamic State purportedly sets new deadline for hostage swap
Syria
A UN official said the organization’s aid effort is having trouble delivering supplies to 40% of the population in need. Talks between various opposition factions and the regime began in Moscow on Jan. 25. The US State Department denied assertions it has abandoned moderate rebels. Journalists entering Kobane have said the city is “a mass […]
Hezbollah kills 2 Israeli soldiers in anti-tank missile attack
Hezbollah fired five anti-tank missiles at an IDF unit patrolling near Mt Dov.
Iraq
Jordan proposes prisoner swap, fate of Japanese Islamic State hostage unclear
Analysis: Islamic State sleeper cells a threat to Turkey
Turkey’s lax border policies backfire as the Islamic State threatens to bite the hand that feeds.
Islamic State
Kurdish defenders say Islamic State has retreated from Syrian border town of Kobane
Al Nusrah Front, Western-backed rebels overrun key regime base south of Damascus
The Al Nusrah Front and Ahrar al Sham fought side-by-side with Western-backed rebels in a battle to take a key Assad regime base in southern Syria.
Iraq
Japan condemns IS execution, demands remaining hostage release
Lebanon
Lebanese army says three more soldiers killed in Friday’s attack
Iranian political and military leaders laud Qods Force general killed in Syria
Political and Military elites of the Islamic Republic weigh-in on the death of Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali Allah-Dadi, the IRGC-QF member killed in Syria by an Israeli helicopter attack.Their commentary indicates a desire to establish deterrence, at least rhetorically, and tout their globalist message pertaining to the Islamic Revolution.
Syria
A report in a Kuwaiti newspaper alleges that despite claims by an Israeli security source to the contrary, Israel was aware of the presence of an Iranian general in a convoy targeted in southern Syria on Jan. 18. UN aid shipments to Syria have provided food to about 600,000 people since July. The US provided […]
Islamic State
Local Islamic State commander arrested in Lahore, Pakistan
Syria
Airstrikes reported to have been conducted by the Syrian regime killed at least 39 people in the village of Khansaa, and the town of Saraqeb and the village of Sheikh Mustafa in Idlib province; some reports speculated that the strike in Khansaa might have been executed by the US-led coalition. An Israeli airstrike on Jan. […]
Senior Qods Force general killed in suspected Israeli airstrike
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps confirmed that Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Allah-Dadi was killed in an airstrike in Syria. He was assigned to help Hezbollah and Syria battle jihadist groups.
Syria
Five Hezbollah fighters and one commander were killed by an Israeli airstrike in southern Syria. The Assad regime has started destruction of its chemical weapons facilities. Kurdish forces have captured a key hilltop in the ongoing fight with the Islamic State for Kobane. Kurdish and Syrian regime troops clashed near the city of Hasakeh in […]
Hezbollah commanders killed in suspected Israeli airstrike
Jihad Imad Mughniyah, the son of the notorious founder and military and intelligence commander of Hezbollah up until his assassination in 2008, was among six Hezbollah operatives killed in a suspected airstrike in Quneitra, Syria.
Australia
Malaysian man who ‘used Australia as step-off point for sending fighters to join ISIS terrorists in Syria’ arrested after being deported