Kurdish fighters killed 41 Islamic State militants in a clash near Kobane, according to SOHR. Islamic State fighters reportedly beheaded a street magician in Raqqa for un-Islamic behavior. A senior Islamic State policeman responsible for many executions and beheadings was himself found beheaded in al-Mayadeen city in Deir-al-Zor province. The US-backed plan to train moderate […]
Kurdish Fighters Capture Key District of Kobane
US Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says
The US-led coalition conducted six airstrikes near Kobane on Jan. 4. At least 12 regime soldiers were killed during an attack on their camp in Aleppo. The Western-backed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces has elected a new presidential committee. Lebanon has begun restricting the flow of refugees from Syria. A Turkish soldier […]
Syrian Journalists Say Islamic State Changed The Rules In Aleppo
Veteran Chechen IS Militant Reported Killed In Kobane
Al Qaeda’s Syrian branch targeted Hezbollah positions near the Lebanese border in the Qalamoun region of Syria. Lebanese and Syrian sources say the positions have not fallen, and the fighting still rages, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Syrian troops foil IS attack in Deir al-Zour province
European Union to set up expert cell to fight jihadi propaganda: report
Islamic State seeking bases inside Lebanon: Lebanon security chief
Vanguard of Syria’s Uprising, Now on the Run From ISIS, Weighs a Bleak Future
New Zealander thought to be fighting in Syria accidentally tweets locations
Obama Envoy John Allen: No ‘Short-Term Solutions’ for Stopping Islamic State
Monitor: over 76,000 killed in Syria in 2014
How the Air Campaign Against ISIS Grew
Video purports to show 2 Italian women held by Syria captors
Rustam Asilderov, the former head of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate’s Dagestan province, swore allegiance to the Islamic State’s Abu Bakr al Baghdadi earlier this month. The move by Asilderov and other jihadists drew harsh criticism from their former superiors.
The al Qaeda leader known as Sanafi al Nasr praised al Qaeda’s “martyrs” on Twitter. Among them is Adnan al Shukrijumah, an al Qaeda operative charged with attacking the West. Nasr’s tweets also shed additional light on the identity of another terrorist reportedly killed earlier this month.
New alleged ISIS demands impossible: Lebanese security source
Lebanon hostage ‘mediator’ says ISIS relayed 3 demands
Norway ‘too slow’ to tackle extremism: report
In images released from the Damascus countryside, the Islamic State showcases its use of an American-made antitank missile on elements of the US-backed Free Syrian Army.
Residents of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley Demand to Take Up Arms against Gunmen
Coalition strike targets ISIS meeting in Aleppo province
Kurdish Sinjar offensive too late for some Yazidis
Islamic State executed nearly 2,000 people in six months: monitor
New camps belonging to the Islamic State, the Al Nusrah Front, the Chechen Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar, the Syrian Harakat Fajr al Sham al Islamiya, the Uzbek group Imam Bukhari Jamaat, and Jaish al Islam have been identified.
The Child Soldiers Who Escaped Islamic State
Girls tried to commit suicide: Former ISIS captive
Islamic State tests Jordan defenses with clashes along borders with Iraq, Syria