January 2015

Coalition forces struck six IS targets in Syria and another 12 in Iraq the US military said Thursday. In Syria, the airstrikes hit around Kobani while in Iraq they focused on Ayn Al Asad, Ar Rutbah, Mosul, Sinjar and Tal Afar. Kurdish…

Kurdish fighters killed 22 jihadists around Kobane Thursday, days after recapturing the Syrian town, but the Islamic State group still controls hundreds of villages in the area, a monitor said. "Nineteen IS members were killed in…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say government airstrikes have killed at least eight people in a northern town held by the Islamic State.   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the airstrikes targeted the city of…

BEIRUT: The Syrian arm of al Qaeda attacked a Western-backed rebel group near Aleppo on Thursday, the rebel group and an organization monitoring the civil war said, threatening one of the few remaining pockets of the non-jihadist…

The Daily Star   BEIRUT: The Syrian arm of Al-Qaeda attacked a Western-backed rebel group near Aleppo Thursday, the rebel group and an organization monitoring the civil war said, threatening one of the few remaining pockets of the…

World Bulletin / News Desk The European Union announced Thursday €136 in humanitarian assistance to Syria. The European Commission -- the 28-nation-bloc’s executive body – said in a statement that half of the package will provide for…

An estimated 30 Irish citizens had travelled to fight in Syria and Iraq by the end of last month — up 15% on last year. The figures — compiled by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation — show the number is up on…

BY ANDREW TABLER Washington's nascent policy of "uncoordinated deconfliction" with Bashar al-Assad's regime in the fight against the "Islamic State"/ISIS may not be a formal alliance, but it does have the potential to foster…

(Reuters) - Representatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and opposition figures agreed at talks on Thursday to hold another round in Moscow, moderator Vitaly Naumkin said on Thursday, but no date was set. The talks, a Russian…

Reliable sources reported to SOHR that IS militants stoned a woman in the city of al- Raqqa on charge of “adultery”. The sources confirmed to SOHR that IS militants stoned her in al- Ferdos Street until they thought that she died but she…