Iraq crisis: Baghdad requests US air strikes against Sunni.
Long lines formed at gas pumps in Irbil in Kurdistan as security threats at refineries and oil ministry policy produced new scarcity ��� and much higher prices ��� in the fuel market in the north. ��� Dozens of foreign workers from Turkey, India and China were feared abducted by militants, while other foreign workers, notably Europeans working for oil conglomerates, were evacuated.. Foreign Policy editor David Kenner picks out one chart of Syrias nervous neighbors:.
Syrian insurgents kidnap then release 300 Kurds: Kurdish official
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents have released 300 Kurdish men in the countrys north who were taken captive on Sunday, a Kurdish official said on Monday. Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for the Kurdish PYD party in Europe, told Reuters by phone that .
Prospect of US Attacks Captivates Syrians
Raqqa, the northeastern city that ISIS has ruled for more than a year, was abuzz with the news. Civilians fled areas near ISIS headquarters. Anti-ISIS insurgents pronounced themselves energized by the prospect of new American aid and said Turkish.
Turkeys Erdogan says he has discussed buffer zone on.
Turkeys Erdogan says he has discussed buffer zone on Syrian border with US and NATO allies - @Reuters.. Caliphate Soldiers purportedly kidnap French man. Sep 22, 2014, 07:11 PM GMT ( 5mo ). Top Iraqi Kurdish security official Helgurd Hikmet says his forces have begun receiving training to fight Islamic State militants from western allies including the US, France, Italy and Germany - @AP. End of alert. Alert my friends. 27 WHOA!
Iraq crisis: Isis gains strength near Baghdad as Kurdish.
Half a million people are believed to be fleeing to the far north of Iraq as insurgent forces take Tikrit, a day after 35000 Iraq soldiers reportedly fled an Isis force of 800 in Mosul.. At least 500,000 people displaced by the violence are believed to be heading to the autonomous region of Kurdistan, and Human Rights Watch says it fears civilians are at risk of atrocities in territories under Isis control. Updated at 10.03pm BST. Facebook Twitter Google plus. Share.
Iraq crisis: Obama announces increase in US military aid to.
President Obama said in a speech at the White House earlier today that the US would deploy up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, but he said American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq. ��� The president said Iraq risked falling. As Sunni insurgents fighting under the banner of Isis continue their offensive in northern Iraq, greater attention is being paid to the Kurdistan Regional Government and its peshmerga quasi-army. As Iraqi security forces capitulated in��.
60,000 Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey within 24 hours amid.
READ MORE: 46 Turkish hostages abducted by ISIS in Iraq released. Turkey opened a stretch of the border on Friday after Kurds fled their homes, fearing an attack on the border town of Ayn al-Arab, a Kurdish commander on��.
Sunnis in Iraq Often See Their Government as the Bigger Threat
It will be a ���mammoth task��� to stitch the country back together and assuage Sunni fears, said Dlawer AlaAldeen, president of the Middle East Research Institute, a think tank in Erbil in Kurdistan. ���Sunnis are deeply fragmented, and winning the trust.
Obama Administration Sending Weapons To Kurdish Forces In Iraq, Officials Say
Previously, the U.S. sold arms in Iraq only to the government in Baghdad, which has largely failed in recent years to transfer them to the Kurdish forces in the north, American officials have said. Baghdad made some transfers with American help in.
Iraq accuses Islamic State of vicious atrocities; US launches.
Human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani accused the Sunni Muslim insurgents ��� who have ordered the community they regard as ���devil worshippers��� to convert to Islam or die ��� of celebrating what he called a ���a vicious atrocity.��� No independent confirmation. from the insurgents. A spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency in Iraq said some 30,000 Iraqis had since Friday reached safety in Kurdistan after traveling on the Syrian side of the border from Sinjar.
Peshmergas blunt, dont break, ISIS siege of Syrias Kobane.
By Omer Berberoglu, Reuters | Turkey Friday. The arrival of the Iraqi Kurd peshmerga or ���those who face death���, with armoured vehicles and artillery, has enabled them to shell Islamic State positions around Kobane and take back some villages. But the front lines in the town itself are little changed, its eastern part still controlled by the insurgents, and the west still largely held by the main Syrian Kurdish armed group, the YPG, and allied fighters. ���There is no change��.
Suspected Boko Haram militants capture Nigerian city
Nigerias military repelled multiple attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants on Borno state capital Maiduguri in the northeast, security sources said on Sunday, but the insurgents captured another Borno town. The assault on Maiduguri, with a.
Jolie beats Malala in worlds Most Admirable title
The Afghan Taliban Sunday published a descriptive biography of their ���charismatic��� supreme leader Mullah Omar, in a surprise move apparently aimed at countering the creeping influence of the Islamic State group within insurgent ranks. The Taliban have.
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ISIS released more than 300 Yezidi from Tel Afar, now they are in Kirkuk checkpoint in their away to KRG Said Kurdish Media #TwitterKurds ��� Vager Saadullah (@Vagersedolla) January 17, 2015��.
ISIS Sells 300 Yazidi Girls for $1000 Each - Walid Shoebat
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has announced that Islamic State (IS) insurgents have sent 300 Yazidi girls to its members in Syria, claiming those girls are slaves and have been captured in battles against infidels.. many well-known Kurds and Arabs in Shadadiya areas located in Southern Hasakkah, Syrian Kurdistan have tried to negotiate with IS insurgents about buying these girls before releasing them to their own relatives and families, falsely telling��.
US carries out new air strikes in Iraq, sees erosion of Isis.
A cruise ship rescued 300 Syrian migrants crowded into a tiny fishing vessel in rough seas off the southern coast of Cyprus after coast guard officials picked up a distress signal, the Defence Ministry said. Photograph:.. Reuters reports: Raed Hamdoon is one of them. He fled the northern city of Mosul on foot in June with his four daughters as fighting intensified, and they have taken refuge in the relative safety of Kurdistan, along with more than 850,000 other Iraqis.
US Drone Strike Kills 4 al-Qaida Rebels in Yemen
Yemeni tribal and security officials say a U.S. drone strike Monday killed at least four suspected al-Qaida insurgents, the third American drone attack in a week. Authorities. The Houthis have demanded involvement in the countrys army and police.
ISIS Seizes 16 Kurdish Villages In Syria Near The Turkish Border As US Drones.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters captured villages and besieged a Kurdish city in northern Syria near the border with Turkey on Thursday in a major assault that prompted a commander to appeal for military aid from other Kurds in the region.
Free Syrian Army to send 1300 fighters to help Kurds defend.
Ankara has resisted supplying weapons to help Syrian Kurds, mainly because of their links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey that has left thousands of people dead.. According to a senior official in Iraqs Kurdistan region, quoted by Reuters, the peshmerga reinforcements would be armed with heavier equipment than is now used by Kurdish fighters in Kobani, who have appealed for more armor-piercing��.
Iraqi Police Use Detentions to Blunt Militants
The tactic of detaining female relatives of insurgents has been used repeatedly by Iraqi security forces, and it has drawn sharp criticism from Sunni leaders. A member of the security forces said the woman had been released because the forces do not.
Reinforcements Enter Besieged Syrian Town via Turkey, Raising Hopes
BEIRUT, Lebanon ��� As the first contingents of Iraqi Kurdish soldiers and Syrian rebel fighters crossed through Turkey to enter the beleaguered Syrian town of Kobani on Wednesday, officials in Kobani hailed their arrival, saying they hoped it heralded.
IS Attacks Send Thousands of Syrian Kurds Fleeing to Turkey
Also Saturday, Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 300 Kurdish fighters have crossed into Syria from Turkey to defend a Kurdish area from attack by Islamic State militants. The rights. ���Islamic State is killing any.
Obama Authorizes Airstrikes In Iraq Against Islamic Militants
Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, said the Kurds needed more than the humanitarian aid that Germany began sending on Friday to support people forced to flee their homes by the Sunni militant groups advance.. Reuters reports: Islamic State insurgents massacred some 80 members of Iraqs Yazidi minority in a village in the countrys north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday. They arrived in vehicles and they started their��.
US Is Carrying Out Vast Majority of Strikes on ISIS, Military Officials Say
WASHINGTON ��� The vast majority of airstrikes launched against Sunni militant targets in Syria have been carried out by American war planes and ship-based Tomahawk cruise missiles, military officials said Tuesday, in what they described as the.
Despite US Claims, Yazidis Say Crisis Is Not Over
American officials said that the assessment meant American airstrikes and humanitarian airdrops, along with efforts by Kurdish pesh merga militiamen, were working and ���an evacuation mission is far less likely,��� in the words of the Pentagon spokesman.
US military carries out airstrikes, aid drops to Iraqi town surrounded by ISIS
The United States says it has carried out airstrikes and dropped humanitarian aid in the Iraqi town of Amerli to protect an ethnic minority that one official says faces the threat of an imminent massacre. The town of Amerli, which has been besieged.
Nigeria election postponed: Orchestrated delay or much-needed strategy to halt.
The upcoming Nigerian presidential election, which was due to be held on 14 February, has been postponed by six weeks on the grounds that security could not be guaranteed throughout the country. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) .
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Turkeys Pivotal Role in Syrias Insurgency: PressTV Report from Inside Turkey 7. Death of American. A top Syrian rebel commander was shot and wounded in an apparent kidnapping attempt by the Islamic State in a Turkish city, raising questions about Ankaras readiness to stop jihadists operating on its soil. Abu Issa, the. A Danish court has released 10 men who were charged with fundraising for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The Copenhagen��.
Battle for Kobani: Isis bears down despite US air strikes and.
Reuters report: At least nine people were killed and dozens wounded in demonstrations across Turkey on Tuesday, local media reported, as Kurds demanded the government do more to protect the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from Islamic State militants. Police fired tear gas. Isis, Reuters reports: NATO member Turkey has not joined the U.S.-led coalition against the Sunni insurgents, saying the campaign should also remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Iraq crisis: US considers air assault on Isis as firefights reach.
Sunni insurgents traded fire with both Shia militia and the Iraqi army, while Kirkuk remains under Kurdish control. ��� The US is considering an air assault on Isis targets in Iraq and Syria. Barack Obama said he will consider a��.
Middle East Updates / Syrian Islamists exchange 25 prisoners for commander
The deal was between the militant Islamist Jaish al-Mujahideen and pro-government militia, it said, and mediated by Kurdish fighters known as Popular Protection Units (YPG). Syrian state media did not mention the exchange, and government officials were .
ISIS claims to seize gas field in Homs from Syr armyian.
(Reuters). 7:19 P.M. ISIS claims to seize Homs gas field from Syrian army. Islamic State fighters in Syria claimed on Thursday to have taken control of a gas field in the central province of Homs after battles with government forces. A series of photos posted.. Islamic State insurgents freed 25 Kurdish school children on Wednesday, the last of more than 150 children kidnapped in May to be released, a Kurdish official and a rights group said. The hardline Sunni Muslim��.