Islamic State kills 500 Yazidis who would not convert; 20000.
Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added. ���We have striking evidence. Shawkat Barbahari, an official from the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, said 30,000 people had escaped to Syria and then been escorted back into Iraqi Kurdistan by Kurdish forces. A spokesman for the. Last January, President Obama dismissed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a mere junior varsity terrorist outfit compared to al Qaeda. ���The analogy we use��.
Obama: There Is No American Military Solution To The.
Correspondent for Britains The Sunday Times Hala Jaber reports that Kurdish and Yazidi officials say the death toll from the Islamic States attack on the Iraq village of Kocho on Friday is higher than previously estimated... The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution that aims to weaken the Islamic State - an al Qaeda splinter group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate - and al Qaedas Syrian wing Nusra Front.
ISIS Kidnaps 90 Assyrian Christians From Villages in Syria.
Kurdish forces battled Islamic State fighters outside Kobani on Tuesday, a monitoring group said, a day after Kurds said they had taken full control of the northern Syrian town following a four-month battle. Known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic, the mainly Kurdish town close to the Turkish border has become a focal point in the international fight against Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has spread across Syria and Iraq... 300 x 100 1506433_70116639_owsrx3rm.
Battle for Kobani: Isis bears down despite US air strikes and.
Updated 7 Oct 2014. Syria near Damascus. A civilian carries his belongings recovered from his home as he walks past damaged buildings and vehicles in al-Dukhaneya neighbourhood near Damascus. Photograph: Omar Sanadiki/Reuters. 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��.
Obama Authorizes Targeted Airstrikes, Humanitarian Aid In.
Correspondent for Britains The Sunday Times Hala Jaber reports that Kurdish and Yazidi officials say the death toll from the Islamic States attack on the Iraq village of Kocho on Friday is higher than previously estimated... The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution that aims to weaken the Islamic State - an al Qaeda splinter group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate - and al Qaedas Syrian wing Nusra Front.
The True Story Of What Happened To The Assyrian Christians
Kurdish and Assyrian militia have pressed an offensive against Islamic State in northeast Syria, cutting one of its supply lines from Iraq, as fears mounted for dozens of Christians abducted by ISIS.. they are held, we learned from informed sources that they were transferred to the village of Umm Al-Masamir where on the following day they were taken to Shaddadi, an area under the control of ISIS adding that the estimated number of abducted around 300 Christians.
Number of Christians kidnapped in ISIS offensive up to 220.
Kurdish fighters in front of a church in the village of Tel Jumaa on Wednesday. Credit Reuters Activists monitoring the conflict in Syria said Thursday that the number of Christians kidnapped by ISIS terrorists in their most recent offensive has risen to at least 220.. The Syriac National Council, a Syrian Christian group, told Reuters that hundreds of Christians have fled to the provinces two main cities, Al-Hassakeh and Al-Qamishli, which are held by the Kurds. Younan��.
Iraq: Situation of Christians in the north, the Kurdistan region.
The Toronto Star estimates that there are approximately 160,000 Christians living in Kurdistan (2 Feb. 2013).. Article 2 of the Constitution of Iraq establishes Islam as the official religion of the State and the foundation of Iraqi law (Iraq 2005, Art. 2).. 2011, 42; Reuters 1 Nov. 2010; The Majalla 24 Sept. 2013). Sources indicate that the Islamic State of Iraq, an extremist group affiliated with al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility (New York Times 30 Dec. 2010; UN 4 Nov.
US carries out new air strikes in Iraq, sees erosion of Isis.
Follow live updates on the US-led battle against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.. Kurdish fighters called for US air strikes around the border town of Kobani, which has come under assault from Isis militants. About 140,000 Kurdish.. The Kurds asked for US air strikes. Iraqi security forces. In his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, President Obama said ���those journalists should be released,��� according to White House officials. Obama and��.
US Forces Evacuate Yemen After Al Qaeda Takes Over City.
Al Qaeda is on the run. Obama said so.. They took over the main security barracks, the governors office, and the intelligence headquarters, which houses prisons with al Qaeda detainees, the officials said. This is a... Libya, Egypt ask U.N. to lift arms embargo to fight Islamic State ��� Al Reuters.. Obama administration officials announced today that they are sending arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq to bolster their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
UPDATE 2-Al Qaeda kidnaps 300 Syrian Kurds, Kurdish official says
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT, April 6 (Reuters) - Al Qaedas official Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, kidnapped 300 Kurdish men in the countrys north, a Kurdish official in Syria said on Monday. Idris Nassan, an official in the Kobani canton, said the men were taken.
Syrian Kurds Form Enclave to Protect Against Assad, al-Qaida
While the three-year-old civil war rages in Syria, creating one of the biggest humanitarian crises since World War II, the Kurdish people are forging their own solution to the conflict. In November, Kurds installed a��.
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Tens of thousands of people have fled months of fighting in Kobane between IS forces and Syrian Kurd defenders. 2. Turkey says it helps Kurdish fighters enter Syria 20 October 2014 / Guardian Turkey said it was helping Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross into Syria to. 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.
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2 Apr. The death toll in the attack by al-Shabab Islamist militants on a university in north-eastern Kenya has risen to 147, Kenyan government officials say. They added that the operation to secure the the Garissa University College campus was now over,... Malis desert north, where French forces wrested control of territory from separatist rebels and al Qaeda-linked fighters, is plagued by frequent political violence - but this is the first militant attack for years in Bamako, in the south.
UN Declares Highest Level Emergency In Iraq As Militants.
Correspondent for Britains The Sunday Times Hala Jaber reports that Kurdish and Yazidi officials say the death toll from the Islamic States attack on the Iraq village of Kocho on Friday is higher than previously estimated... The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution that aims to weaken the Islamic State - an al Qaeda splinter group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate - and al Qaedas Syrian wing Nusra Front.
Obama Administration May Announce More Troops To Iraq.
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The Obama administration may announce on Tuesday a decision to send more military advisers to Iraq, U.S. officials said, as the United States helps confront radical Islamist militants who. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution that aims to weaken the Islamic State - an al Qaeda splinter group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate - and al Qaedas Syrian wing Nusra Front.
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.[1][2][3] Starting in April 2013, ISIL made rapid military gains in northern Syria,.. [74][not in citation given][75] However, the Kurds���who are mostly Sunnis���were unwilling to be drawn into the conflict, and there were clashes in the area between ISIL and the Kurdish Peshmerga.