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(Reuters) - Turkey's president said Kobani was "about to fall" after Islamic State fighters advanced into the south west of the Syrian Kurdish town, pressing home a three-week assault has cost a reported 400 lives. The prospect that the town on the Turkish border could be...
(Reuters) - After months in which the United States and European countries issued warnings about their citizens traveling to Syria fight on behalf of Islamic State, there are new reports of Westerners going to fight on the other side, against the militants. A man who said he is...
(Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied reports at the weekend that it had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement fighting in Syria and Iraq , saying that its statement to the media had been misinterpreted. The group's spokesman Shahid Shahidullah said...
(Reuters) - Dozens of Kurds stormed the national parliament building in The Hague on Monday night in a protest against Islamic State fighters who are attacking a Kurdish town in northern Syria , Kurdish officials in the Netherlands said. Riot squads and hundreds of officers...
(Reuters) - Tokyo police are investigating the possibility that a Japanese student tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday, as the United States carries out air strikes on militant targets. Suga did not...
(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters advanced into the south west of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani overnight, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, taking several buildings to gain attacking positions from two sides of the city. Two Islamic State flags were still visible over...
Macedonian Interior Ministry discovered an organized criminal group in the country that is part of an international organized criminal network involved in activities with migrant smuggling. Nine people were detained during the police action, during which searches were...
(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...
(Al Arabiya News)- A blonde Texan woman found herself the center of unwanted attention after she recounted the story of her conversion to Islam on Twitter, receiving marriage proposals from suspected extremists that have since gone viral. The saga started when Jennifer...
Two weeks after US warplanes began bombing Islamic State (Isis) positions in Syria, the Pentagon leadership has yet to make critical decisions about building the proxy rebel force central to its plan for taking territory away from the jihadist army. US...
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BAALBEK, Lebanon ( The Daily Star ): Calm returned to Lebanon's eastern border Monday following fierce fighting between Hezbollah and Nusra Front extremists that left nearly two dozen combatants killed, according to security sources. Hezbollah acknowledged the deaths of...
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A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against jihadists from the Islamic State group outside the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane on Sunday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the woman blew herself up at an ISIS position...
(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 ,...
(Reuters) - Islamist militants attacking a Syrian border town fought some of their heaviest battles so far with Kurdish forces on Sunday, a local official said, and five people were wounded inside Turkey by a projectile fired across the frontier. Islamic State, an al Qaeda...
( Middle East Bulletin )- At least 5,396 people were tortured under the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a human rights group has reported, since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, a non-partisan...
