(Anadolu News Agency)- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants tightened their grip on the Kurdish-populated city of Kobani in Syria, just a few kilometers from the Turkish border, closing in on the city center Monday amid fierce street battles, according...

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(Reuters) - Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, has seized a third of Syria and large areas of Iraq and this year proclaimed a caliphate across the two countries in the heart of the Middle East. The group, which U.S-led forces are bombing in Iraq and Syria ,...