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Syria
A female Kurdish YPG commander carried out a suicide bombing against an Islamic State position outside Kobane. Another female Kurdish fighter near Kobane killed herself with her last bullet to avoid being taken captive by the IS. Turkey has closed the border crossing at Kobane, while clashes continue and IS is using heavy weapons. Coalition […]
Islamic State
Drones spot ISIS slayer ‘Jihadi John’ in Syria
Free Syrian Army continues to cooperate with the Al Nusrah Front, Islamic Front in southern Syria
Syrian rebels supplied by the United States continue to conduct joint operations with al Qaeda and their allies in Syria.
Germany
Germany plans expanded engagement against Islamic State in Iraq
Islamic State
Air strikes against Islamic State are not working, say Syrian Kurds
Al Nusrah Front
In Golan, Imagined Risks Become All Too Real
Pakistani Taliban group urges jihadists in Iraq and Syria ‘to reconcile’
Omar Khalid al Khorasani, a top leader in Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, offered to help mediate the dispute between the Islamic State and the Al Nusrah Front and other jihadist rivals.
Syria
Coalition warplanes struck at targets in Deir Izzour, where the Islamic State is reportedly paying children to publicize the group; in Aleppo; in Hama near Morek, where regime forces are fighting the Islamic Front; in Hasakah, where 30 non-Syrian IS fighters were killed; in Idlib, reattacking Salma; in Latakia; and in Reef Dimashq. The Al […]
Iraq
Kurds issue desperate call to arms as Islamic State closes in
Al Nusrah Front
Opinion over jihadists divides hajj pilgrims
Islamic State
Islamic State backs up force in Syria with threats
Islamic State
New US raids hit extremists outside Syria Kurdish town
Iraq
Vatican seeks Mideast Christians’ right of return
Al Nusrah Front
Free Syrian Army set to unite rebels in southern Syria: official
Iraq
UK Army chiefs tell Government: stop Gulf states funding terrorism
Islamic State
US air strikes hit Islamic State near Syrian border town as fighting intensifies
Iraq
Islamic State reportedly on Baghdad’s outskirts after week of victories
Free Syrian Army
A Chronicler of Syria’s Conflict Returns to the Spotlight, Minus a Disguise
Iraq
The US acted to save Iraq’s Kurds. Why not Syria’s?
Islamic State beheads another Brit, threatens American aid worker
The Islamic State carried through on its threat to execute British aid worker Alan Henning, and said former US Army Ranger Peter Edward Kassig is next.
Islamic State
PKK leader Ocalan threatens to end peace talks with Turkey if Islamic State massacres Kurds
Iraq
In war on Islamic State, what would victory look like?
Islamic State
Iraqi Kurds fight ISIS with aged weapons
Syria
A suicide bomber killed at least 53 people, including 47 young children, in an attack on a school in an Alawite neighborhood in Homs city. Clashes been the Kurdish YPG and the Islamic state continued around Kobane in Aleppo. Over 300,000 Kurds have been displaced by the Islamic State from Kobane and its environs, and […]
Iraq
Pope Convenes Mideast Envoys Amid Islamic State Threat
Iraq
Pamphlet argues Baghdadi’s legitimacy as head of caliphate
Christians
Inside Islamic State: Sex slaves, child fighters, mass executions
Chechen unit from Islamic State reportedly fighting at Kobane
Omar al Shishani’s Al Aqsa Brigade is often spearheading the Islamic State’s advance in key areas of Syria.
Al Nusrah Front propaganda focuses on Iranian influence in Lebanon, Syria
The Al Nusrah Front continues to use its Lebanese hostages in its propaganda campaign against Iran and Hezbollah.