27/01/2015

Kurdish fighters have reportedly expelled the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists from the Syrian border town of Kobane after more than four months of fighting, while Iraqi forces announced landmark gains in the eastern…

Staff Writer, Al Arabiya News Monday, 26 January 2015 Kurdish forces were in complete control of the Syrian town of Kobane near the Turkish border on Monday after months of fighting with the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria…

Kurdish forces took back control of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, almost entirely driving out the Islamic State fighters after nearly four months of bloodshed. The Syrian Kurdish forces have been backed by near daily…

(CNN) - Kurdish fighters have taken the Syrian city of Kobani from ISIS' grip after 112 days of fighting with the Sunni extremist group, multiple sources said Monday. The announcement comes a day after an Iraqi official declared that…

The siege of Kobane appears to be over, after Kurdish fighters in the Syrian border town claimed victory over militants from the Islamic State group. With the backing of US-led air strikes and support from Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces,…

BEIRUT // Kurdish fighters have expelled all ISIL militants from inside the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitor group said on Monday, dealing a key symbolic blow to the extremist group’s ambitions. Meanwhile, Iraqi forces declared they…

NICOSIA — Islamic rebels have conducted one of their biggest rocket attacks in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Islamic militia attacks on at least three major Syrian cities. The British-based opposition group said…

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Monday the battle for control of the Syrian town of Kobane was continuing, despite claims by Kurdish leaders that their forces have recaptured the area from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)…

(Reuters) - Turkey opened its biggest refugee camp on Sunday to house 35,000 people fleeing fighting between Kurdish forces and Islamist militants in Syria's Kobani, national disaster management agency AFAD said. Located in the…

By Anna Malpas Syrian opposition figures have met in Moscow as part of a new Russia-coordinated bid to wind down the war in Syria, but there is little hope of a breakthrough. The main opposition group, the exiled National Coalition, has…