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 […]
Pope Convenes Mideast Envoys Amid Islamic State Threat
Pamphlet argues Baghdadi’s legitimacy as head of caliphate
Inside Islamic State: Sex slaves, child fighters, mass executions
Omar al Shishani’s Al Aqsa Brigade is often spearheading the Islamic State’s advance in key areas of Syria.
The Al Nusrah Front continues to use its Lebanese hostages in its propaganda campaign against Iran and Hezbollah.
Syrian rebels unhappy with coalition airstrikes
Are Turkish troops trapped at Syrian tomb?
US civilian casualty standard eased in Iraq, Syria
The two-week-old offensive is reaching closer to the Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria.
EU antiterrorism chief Gilles de Kerchove on IS threat
Nasser bin Ali al Ansi, an AQAP leader, is featured in a new video calling on rival jihadists in Iraq and Syria to unite against their common enemies. Al Ansi says the jihadists should form a “coalition” to strike America.
Will Lebanon swap prisoners with Islamic State, Al Nusrah?
Jordan on high alert for possible IS retaliation
The Islamic State has seized 325 Kurdish villages around Ayn al Arab. The Islamic State beheaded four YPG fighters, three of whom were female, and displayed their heads in Jarabulus. The leader of Kurdish PYD forces called for weapons for Kurdish fighters outgunned by the Islamic State in Kobani. Turkey claimed that the Islamic State […]
‘One and the same’? Officials give conflicting statements on al Qaeda ties to ‘Khorasan’
Special Report: Islamic State uses grain to tighten grip in Iraq
Schoolgirl jihadis: the female Islamists leaving home to join Islamic State fighters
What’s in a name: Obama’s anonymous war against the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria
Abu Muhammad al Julani seeks to undermine public support for airstrikes in Syria by arguing that citizens in the West, and not just their rulers, will pay the price for the war. Julani also discusses Al Nusrah’s fight against Hezbollah and urges jihadists not to join the West in the fight against the Islamic State.
US-led Raids Hit Jihadist Oil, Command Posts in Syria
Coalition airstrikes hit the large Koniko gas plant in Deir Izzour, which also houses an Islamic State prison; granaries in the IS-held city of Manbej in Aleppo; three local oil refineries and a plastics factory in Raqqah; and in Markadah in Hasakah. About 1,500 Kurdish fighters have joined the YPG in recent days to battle […]
Islamic State targeted air strikes could be extended to Syria, Britain’s PM hints
Syria’s Qaeda chief warns West against continued strikes
Al Qaeda Leader Warns of Revenge for Airstrikes
Obama: US underestimated rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Obama Says US Underestimated the Rise of ISIS
Al Qaeda figure killed by US strike in Syria: monitoring group
PKK commander threatens to resume war
U.S. struggles to blunt Syria rebel anger at strikes