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WASHINGTON (Reuters): The United States and Saudi Arabia launched eight airstrikes Sunday and Monday against ISIS targets in Syria, including seven near Kobani, the U.S. military's Central Command said. Four strikes southwest of Kobani hit ISIS units and destroyed a...
(Reuters) - An Islamic State suicide bomber detonated a truck laden with explosives on Monday in the besieged Kurdish town of Kobani, near the Turkish border crossing with Syria , a monitoring group and Kurdish sources said. The attack took place in a northern district of...
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(Reuters) - Kurdish defenders held off Islamic State militants in Syria's border town of Kobani on Sunday, but the fighters struck with deadly bombings in Iraq , killing dozens of Kurds in the north and assassinating a provincial police commander in the west. The top U.S....
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(Reuters) - The surge in child migration from Central America is receding but the United States is aggressively pushing ahead with plans to expand detentions, a little-publicized part of a broader campaign to deter illegal migrants. Under pressure from opposition Republicans to...
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Kurdish fighters have been able to halt the advance of the Islamic State extremist group in the Syrian border town of Kobani, where the U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes for more than two weeks, activists said Sunday. The coalition,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of al-Bukamal town on the border with Iraq said fighters of the Islamic Sate of Iraq and Sham have confiscated properties of Syrian expatriates who work in Gulf Arab states in respond to the participation of Gulf fighter jets in...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime president has sacked two officers in the Military Intelligence in Homs, in response to the school bombing fallout days ago, activists said. Brigadier Abdul Karim al-Salloum, head the military Intelligence with the head...
ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said the head of caretaker government will lead the new interim government due to Turkish-Qatari consensus. The ongoing meetings of key opposition group National Coalition since three days...
Reporting by Orwa Sousi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists of the coastal city of Jeblah reported daily arresting and brutal abuses for Sunni sect by National Defense militia. The Phoenician city...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighters of key rebel group Islamic Front have stormed barracks of regime army near Safira Defence Factories south Aleppo, killing at least 15 troops, activists and Twitter feeds reported. Activists said rebels have taken...
(Al Arabiya News)- Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime took hostage 500 residents – mostly women and children – from a northern Aleppo village last week amid reports of mass rape, the opposition National Coalition has said. In a press statement, the...
(Reuters) - Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday. A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces...
(Reuters) - Turkey has agreed to support the training and equipping of moderate opposition groups in Syria , the U.S. State Department said on Friday, saying a U.S. military planning team would visit Ankara next week to further talks on the matter. " Turkey has agreed...
(Reuters) - The effectiveness of the U.S.-led coalition effort in Syria is under scrutiny as Islamic State fighters try to overrun a strategic Syrian town on Turkey's border. The United States and its allies, including Gulf states, have conducted more than 130 airstrikes in Syria...
By Omar Al Dimashqi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- As the Syrian revolution enters the fourth year, field hospitals, medical centers and medics have been a clear target for Syrian regime shelling. Dr. Nada Mahroos, from...
The Turkish government has sent 634 vehicles of humanitarian aid to the Syrian town of Kobani since September 19, the prime ministrery said Friday. "The total amount of aid, including food, medicine, tents, clothes and cleaning supplies delivered to...
