October 2014

TALLINN, Estonia — Turkey’s president said Friday that Ankara would allow hundreds of Syrian rebels to travel to the embattled border town of Kobani to help Kurdish fighters there fend off an Islamic State…

BEIRUT (AFP) - Ten children and five women have been killed in Syrian government air strikes in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Friday.   The children, aged from four to 10, and women…

BEIRUT – Activists and a Kurdish official say fighters from the Islamic State group are shelling the northern Syrian town of Kobani, where they continue to fight Kurdish troops. Idriss Nassan, a senior official in…

Regime warplanes went in no less than 27 air strikes today on areas in Damascus, Reef Dimashq, Der-Ezzor, Dar'a, Quneitra, Hama and Idlib. the warplanes went in no less than 265 air strikes targeted areas around Syria since Monday's…

the dead :  47 civilians, 21 rebels, 14 Non-Syrian Islamic fighters, 19 NDF, 27  Regular forces, 10 unknown rebels, 26 ISIS, 8 YPG, 7 non-Syrian fighters allied to regime forces. By province : Aleppo ( 13 rebels, 7 civilians ), Reef…

The Northern Syrian city of Kobane is no longer on the brink of falling to the control of Islamist State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Kurdish fighters there likely will be able to hold out indefinitely, U.S. officials said on Thursday.…

Lebanon announced on Thursday it will not accept any more refugees from neighboring war-torn Syria, except in what authorities deem to be "exceptional" cases - a move that could prevent tens of thousands of Syrians from escaping the civil…

A former American soldier from Wisconsin who has become the face of the YPG Kurdish military force in Syria, told UPI Wednesday in an exclusive interview that civilians have been burned in an Islamic State attack, with injuries consistent…

Turkey’s president says a deal has been agreed to send 200 Peshmerga fighters from Iraq to the Syrian border town via Turkish territory. Kurdish political leaders say they originally asked for Turkey to help Syrian Kurdish forces …

An American journalist has been killed in a car crash in Turkey just days after claiming she claimed the Turkish intelligence services had threatened her over her reporting of the siege of Kobane. Serena Shim, who worked for Iran's…