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...but the truth is that all the Iraqi resistance factions have taken part in the revolution including Islamic factions. There is.. I was in hospital today to check on my friend who was wounded yesterday in a fight between rebels in Hawija and the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Syria Pro-regime Militia Kill 13 Members of A Family.
Syrian government forces shell the town of Ariha in the north-western Idlib province, killing at least 18 people, with video shootage posted by activists appearing to show numerous mutilated bodies; Syrias state news agency Sana. Activists say 28 rebels and one Republican Guard officer died; Kurdish forces in northern Raqqa province release the local commander of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, in return for 300 kidnapped Kurdish civilians.
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[76] Earlier, ���Al-Qaeda linked Islamists have kidnapped at least 120 Kurdish civilians from a village in Aleppo province near the border with Turkey������[77]. The same rebels/jihadists are training children���as young as 10 years��.
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���The exercise could transform Nusra from a weakened militia group into a force capable of taking on Islamic State at a time when it is under pressure from bombing raids and advances by Kurdish and Iraqi military forces,��� Reuters reports. One of the.
Wednesday 24 July 2013 : Support Kurds in Syria
Since 18 July 2013, the Salafist armed groups, Jabhat al-Nusa and Islamic State of Iraq and al-Alsham affiliated to Al-Qaida, have launched brutal attacks on Kurdish neighbourhoods in the Tel-Abeyd Area, killing, kidnapping��.
UN Envoy Says Assad Must Be Part Of ���Political Solution��� In Syria
However, sources told Reuters the explosives were placed under a car and detonated by remote control near the town of Suruc, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) north of the Syrian town of Kobane, where Kurdish fighters forced out Islamic State of Iraq and.
Seemorerocks: The US war on ISIS
At least one bundle of U.S. weapons airdropped in Syria appears to have fallen into the hands of ISIS, a dangerous misfire in the American mission to speed aid to Kurdish forces making their stand in Kobani. An ISIS-associated YouTube account posted a new video online Tuesdayentitled, ���Weapons and munitions dropped by American planes and landed in the areas controlled by the Islamic State in Kobani.��� The video was also... On return, they were abducted.
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NEWS 1. Islamic State: Turkey to let Iraq Kurds join Kobane fight 2. Turkey says it helps Kurdish fighters enter Syria 3. PYD leader says no deal yet on passage of FSA fighters to Kobani 4. Watch The Harrowing Story Of A Yazidi Woman Fighting Back Against. 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.
Desperate, angry, fighting for their lives ��� Syrias refugees must not be.
She told me that they were afraid that what had happened to the people of Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan would happen to them. That her sisters and friends would be sold into slavery or raped, that her three young sons would be kidnapped and her husband .
Iraq crisis: Islamic State accused of ethnic cleansing
Latest reports say angry relatives of soldiers abducted by IS have forced their way into the parliament building in the capital, Baghdad.. They include the mass murder of hundreds of Shia soldiers or militia captured in Tikrit, the similar fate.
ISIS losing ground in symbolic Kobani battle
Turkish Kurds watch over the Syrian town of Kobani as they stand on top of a hill near Mursitpinar border crossing in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province. (File photo: Reuters) .
Iraq crisis: US strikes aid Kurdish bid to retake dam
Kurdish forces supported by US air strikes are battling to retake Mosul dam from Islamic State (IS) fighters in northern Iraq. The operation to recapture the countrys largest dam began early on Saturday with raids by F-18 fighters and drones, US.
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Saturday 7 June 2014 : Support Kurds in Syria
PYD: Battalions of ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) which are affiliated to Al Qaeda have committed brutal massacres on 29th May, 2014, in the villages of Telilia, Thumad and Qonjac, west of SereKanye.. We must immediately, without delay, agree on a unified vision in order to find a way out of the Syrian crisis, urgently to stop the violence and fighting, and establish a settlement on the basis of a democratic solution, and to consider the self-management��.
Syrian warplanes kill 19 in Deraa province
Fighting also continued in the Kurdish town of Kobane, northwest of Raqqa on the border with Turkey, where Kurdish defenders have been holding off an assault by Islamic State fighters for more than two months, according to Reuters. At least 62 people.
Syria crisis: 300 Kurds kidnapped by Islamist rebels
Reports say the men were seized from buses travelling from the town of Afrin to the city of Aleppo. It is still not clear which rebel group is responsible but officials from the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have blamed Jaysh al-Islam (Army of.
Friday 18 January 2013 : Support Kurds in Syria
Four Kurds from one family were kidnapped by those fighting the Kurds. Six people were injured as a result of shelling by these groups, including a woman and children. Firat News reports that two children died due to the��.
Syrian Kurdish fighters halt advance by Islamic State fighters.
Syrian Kurdish fighters halt advance by Islamic State fighters east of Kobani, heavy clashes continue, Kurdish forces say - @Reuters.. Caliphate Soldiers purportedly kidnap French man. Sep 22, 2014, 10:01 PM GMT ( 6mo )��.
20,000 Iraqis besieged by Isis escape from mountain after.
Yazidi minority surrounded by Islamist militants on Mount Sinjar escorted back to Iraqi Kurdistan after fleeing via Syria.. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added. We have striking evidence obtained from. More news. Greek political unrest and deepening debt crisis fuel talk of snap election.. Utter B.S. The Americans ignored the Syrian Revolution and the secular rebels and stood by whilst 200,000 Syrians have been slaughtered. This is why��.
Isis leaders wife and child captured by Lebanon army
She was set again tonight to become a valuable bargaining chip, this time for the Lebanese government, which has been negotiating with Baghdadis group, also known as Islamic State, over the release of almost 30 kidnapped Lebanese soldiers and police.
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The court of the Islamic State (IS) militant group on Saturday exonerated 29 Christian Assyrians kidnapped earlier this week in northern Syria, a monitoring group reported. The IS court decided to... Both Ukraine and the rebels say they are withdrawing heavy weapons in line with the deal made in Minsk last month.....http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31688940 2/3/15. Reply.. 2015 at 7:28 AM. Australia to send 300 more troops to Iraq on training mission.
Timeline of events related to the Islamic State of Iraq and the.
On April 8, 2013, having expanded into Syria, the group Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) adopted the name Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.. 6 January: Syrian rebels managed to expel ISIL from the city of Ar-Raqqah, ISILs largest stronghold and the capital of Ar-Raqqah province.[29].. [110] Kurdish Peshmerga forces occupied the city of Kirkuk, abandoned by the retreating Iraqi Army in face of the ISIL offensive.
ISIS routing Syrian Kurds; another humanitarian crisis
While ISIS is launching this offensive against the Kurds, Assads forces are stepping up his offensive against the remaining moderate rebels. It appears both. At least 300 Kurdish fighters crossed from Turkey into Syria overnight to battle jihadists from the Islamic State group trying to seize a strategic border town, a monitor said Saturday.. So the hundreds (if not thousands) of Nigerians being subjected to kidnap, rape or murder by depraved terrorists dont matter?
Kurdish forces repel major ISIS attack
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have repelled a major attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group southwest of Iraqi Kurdistans capital Erbil, officials said Wednesday. ���The attack which was launched at 8:00 p.m. (1700 GMT on Tuesday.
UK lawmakers urge govt to step up ISIS fight
Britains Defense Select Committee urged the government on Thursday to step up the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and provide additional support to the Iraqi forces. The committee said it was shocked that British service.
At least 50 ISIS fighters killed in Syrias Kobane
In a related story, fighting between rebels and governments forces continued in Aleppo, Syrias second city and former industrial powerhouse. A Syrian woman and her three sons were killed overnight by rebel fire in the government-held side of Aleppo.
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BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition �� Hundreds of Syrian Kurds kidnapped - An Islamist rebel group is believed to have kidnapped some 300 Kurdish men in northwest Syria in return for the release of some of its��.
Iraq Arms Kurds Against ISIS
The official said Iraqi security forces flew a C-130 cargo plane loaded with mostly small-arms ammunition to Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, in a move that American officials hope will help the regions Peshmerga fighters keep militants from the.
Syria claims terror groups used chlorine as weapon
In October, Iraqi officials said militants from the Islamic State group used chlorine gas during fighting with security forces and Shiite militiamen north of Baghdad. The statements in Iraq came two days after Kurdish officials and doctors said they.
Bodies of 25 Yazidis found in Iraq mass grave
BBC mocked for spending thousands on staff emoji guide · British Arabs. Iraqi Kurdish forces have uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of about 25 members of the Yazidi minority believed to have been killed by the militants of the Islamic.
Isis declares caliphate in Iraq and Syria | World news | The.
They want to establish a state but they dont have the elements for it, said Abdel-Rahman al-Shami, a spokesman for the Army of Islam, an Islamist rebel group in Syria. You cannot establish a state through looting, sabotage��.
SAS quad bike squads kill up to 8 jihadis each day as allies prepare to wipe.
SAS troops with sniper rifles and heavy machine guns have killed hundreds of Islamic State extremists in a series of deadly quad-bike ambushes inside Iraq, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.. The plans could see up to 300 UK trainers leading a programme.