The UN said the Syrian conflict has now claimed over 100,000 lives, and US Secretary of State Kerry said there is no military solution to the conflict. Rebels disillusioned by infighting with Islamist fighters are said to have begun accepting reconciliation offers from the Assad regime. A car bomb blamed on “terrorists” exploded in Reef […]
Maulana Asim Umar, a Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda propagandist, is featured in a new message disseminated by As Sahab. Umar calls on Indian Muslims to take part in the “global jihad” and emphasizes the importance of the fight in Syria.
Syrian refugees stranded along Jordanian border; humanitarian crisis feared
Syria: disillusioned rebels drift back to take Assad amnesty
The UN Security Council will hold an informal meeting on Syria this week; Middle East envoy Robert Serry said Syria was “increasingly turning into a regional, if not a global, battleground.” The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called again for the release of two bishops kidnapped near Aleppo by “rebel fighters from the Caucasus.” The […]
Syrian Sunnis fear Assad regime wants to ‘ethnically cleanse’ Alawite heartland
Iraq jailbreak highlights al-Qaeda affiliate’s ascendancy
American and Egyptian passports belonging to Amiir Farouk Ibrahim, who was born in Pennsylvania, were among a number of travel documents found after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant abandoned a base in northern Syria.
A top UN official said both sides in the conflict risk prosecution as war criminals for atrocities against children. A reporter for the pro-rebel Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was killed in Aleppo. Al Nusrah Front fighters targeted a military branch and a checkpoint with two suicide car bombs in Homs. Among a number of […]
UK ‘terror’ airport stops under new scrutiny
EU Terrorist Group Designation to Have Little Impact on Hezbollah
Kurdish rebels reportedly freed Abu Musaab, the local commander of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in exchange for the return of 300 Kurdish civilians taken hostage by ISIL. Kurdish fighters have been trying to expel ISIL and Al Nusrah Front militants in Hasakah province over the past week; over […]
Enlisting Damascus Residents to Answer Assad’s Call
Kurds free Qaeda-linked rebel commander in Syria after clashes
The Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and reportedly the Free Syrian Army are fighting the PKK-linked YPG in northern Syria.
The video was released by the Muhajireen Army, but is credited to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.
Libyan weapons fuel Syria bloodshed
Kurdish and jihadist fighters clashed in Hasakah province after a convoy of female Kurdish fighters was attacked; at least 19 Al Nusrah Front fighters and 10 Kurdish fighters are said to have been killed. The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said President Obama has asked him to determine whether the US “could” […]
Momentum Shifts in Syria, Bolstering Assad’s Position
Aid workers ‘targetted by jihadists in Syria’
Kurdish-Islamist fighting spreads to Syrian oil fields
Ruins in a Center of Syria’s Uprising
Britain Said to Step Back From Push to Arm Syrian Rebels
A aide to Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan emir Hakeemullah Mehsud said that al Qaeda’s operational commander in Syria requested that the Taliban send fighters to wage jihad.
A leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed the Free Syrian Army is selling weapons to the terror group.
In Syria, infighting between al-Qaida groups and mainstream rebels undermining revolt
Israel scratching its head after US officials (again) leak Syria strike
Satellite imagery of the recent purported Israeli strike in Latakia reveals that a number of storage warehouses were struck. At least one of the facilities appears to have been completely destroyed.
No Quick Impact in US Arms Plan for Syria Rebels
Government forces attacked rebel-held areas on the outskirts of Damascus. The al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claims to be buying weapons from the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo. A senior FSA commander said he welcomes ISIL as long as it doesn’t impose sharia. “Hundreds” of Pakistani jihadists are said to […]