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'SO HAPPY AND SO PLEASED': SCHOOL DUX FOR SYRIAN TEEN REFUGEE


Two years ago Saad Al-Kassab couldn't speak English, but he had a novel way of teaching himself the new tongue... READ MORE

12th December, 2016 27082

AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST


The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE

29th August, 2015 10992

BRENDAN ONEILL THE WEST IS BETRAYING THE KURDS AND ALLOWING THEM TO BE MASSACRED


The PKK has close links with the YPG, the Kurdish People's Protection Units in Syria, who have been among the bravest battlers against Isil... READ MORE

29th July, 2015 7523

HOW TWO U.S. MARXISTS WOUND UP ON THE FRONT LINES AGAINST ISIS


A florist and an American University graduate didn't intend to fight, but they were sent into battle against the Islamic State in Syria... READ MORE

2nd April, 2017 3958

US REVAMPING REBEL FORCE FIGHTING ISIS IN SYRIA


Chris Connolly, a spokesman for the American military task force training the Syrian rebels, said in an email... READ MORE

7th September, 2015 2806

ISIS DESTROYS MORE ARTIFACTS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ


But Thursday was the first time that the Islamic State said it had destroyed Palmyra statues... READ MORE

3rd July, 2015 2771

REVEALED: UK MERCENARIES FIGHTING ISLAMIC STATE TERRORIST FORCES IN SYRIA


Former infantryman James Hughes, from Reading, and Jamie Read, from Lanarkshire, understood to be in Rojava, northern Syria... READ MORE

23rd November, 2014 2746

TURKEY CALLS DEADLY BLAST NEAR SYRIA BORDER TERRORISM


When Turkish authorities blocked access to several Islamic news websites last week, Islamic State sympathizers in Turkey threatened to carry out an unspecified retaliation... READ MORE

20th July, 2015 2039

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SAVE SYRIAN CHILDREN, SAVE SYRIA


There have, though, been plenty of equally horrific images of dead Syrian children in the media in recent years... READ MORE

3rd September, 2015 1983

IS THIS AMERICA'S WORST ERROR IN THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE THE IRAQ WAR?


Turkey conflict with Kurds Was approving air strikes against the PKK America's worst error in the Middle East since the Iraq War?... READ MORE

26th July, 2015 1894

GOALS DIVERGE AND PERILS REMAIN AS US AND TURKEY TAKE ON ISIS


Militias that have lately been the United States' main partners in fighting the Islamic State in Syria, but whom Turkey considers enemies... READ MORE

28th July, 2015 1823

OFFERING SERVICES ISIS DIGS IN DEEPER IN SEIZED TERRITORIES


ERBIL Iraq In northern Syria the jihadists of the Islamic State have fixed power lines dug sewage systems and painted sidewalks... READ MORE

16th June, 2015 1805

US PROBES 'STRAY SYRIA AIR DROP'


The new fighting came as Turkey said it would allow Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to cross into Syria to fight IS... READ MORE

22nd October, 2014 1459

RUSSIAN HACKERS HARASSED JOURNALISTS WHO WERE INVESTIGATING THE MALAYSIA AIRLINES PLANE CRASH


Then in February, Cyber Berkut, which describes itself as a group of pro-Russian Ukrainian hacktivists, defaced Bellingcat's web site... READ MORE

28th September, 2016 1353

'JIHADI JOHN' JOINS LIST OF TOP TERRORISTS KILLED BY U.S.


Age at death 40 Terrorist affiliation Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula How he was killed By U.S. drone strike in Yemen on Sept... READ MORE

13th November, 2015 1313

IF WE DO NOTHING ABOUT SYRIA, THEN THE REFUGEES WILL KEEP ON COMING


A few years ago I went to Palmyra, and other places in Syria, and realised that it was a place of unbelievable cultural richness... READ MORE

31st August, 2015 1221

RIOT POLICE CLASH WITH REFUGEES IN LESBOS


Meawwhile a newborn boy was found dead after his migrant parents reached the shores of another Greek island in a boat from Turkey on Saturday... READ MORE

6th September, 2015 1171

FIRST U.S.-TRAINED SYRIA REBEL BELIEVED KILLED IN FIGHTING


Defending the U.S.-trained fighters could become a growing job for United States, which has been waging air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria... READ MORE

3rd August, 2015 1111

QAEDA LEADER IN SYRIA IS KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE US SAYS


Officials fear that the Khorasan militants could provide these sophisticated explosives to their Western recruits, who could sneak them onto United States-bound flights... READ MORE

22nd July, 2015 1010

ISLAMIC STATE SHOWS IMAGES OF ANCIENT SYRIAN TEMPLE DESTRUCTION


Islamic State has proclaimed a caliphate to rule over all Muslims from territory it holds in both Syria and Iraq... READ MORE

25th August, 2015 1004

ISIL LAY MINES IN SYRIA'S ANCIENT PALMYRA RUINS


Palmyra has been looted by government forces damaged in fighting and last week a section of its north defensive wall was hit by a regime airstrike... READ MORE

21st June, 2015 1000

AT LEAST 800 ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS ARE READY TO LAUNCH ATTACKS IN EUROPE


At least 800 islamist extremists are ready to launch attacks in europe after returning from iraq and syria intelligence services warn... READ MORE

25th August, 2015 971

ISISS DESTRUCTION OF PALMYRA: THE HEART HAS BEEN RIPPED OUT OF THE CITY'


Isiss destruction of Palmyra The heart has been ripped out of the city'... READ MORE

3rd September, 2015 971

ICELANDERS OPEN THEIR HEARTS AND HOMES TO SYRIAN REFUGEES


Around 13,000 people from Iceland's population of little over 300,000 joined a Facebook page, Syria is Calling, asking the government to take in more Syrian refugees... READ MORE

2nd September, 2015 962

CANADIAN/ISRAELI BECOMES FIRST FEMALE FOREIGN FIGHTER TO JOIN KURDS


A Facebook page registered to Rosenberg showed photographs of her in settings marked as Kurdish areas of Iraq and Syria... READ MORE

12th November, 2014 911

IRAQI KURDISH PESHMERGA FORCES 'CROSS INTO KOBANE'


Syria is iraqi kurdish peshmerga forces cross into kobane... READ MORE

1st November, 2014 745

EUROPE ON HIGH ALERT AFTER FRENCH TRAIN ATTACK BY HEAVILY ARMED GUNMAN


Train gunman named as 25-year-old Moroccan who was known to intelligence services as a radical Islamist who fought in Syria last year... READ MORE

22nd August, 2015 718

THOUSANDS FLEE SYRIA AS KURDS GAIN ON ISIS


But Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the observatory, said Islamic State fighters still controlled the road from the Turkish border to Raqqa... READ MORE

15th June, 2015 625

AL-QAEDA LEADER KILLED IN SYRIAN AIRSTRIKE


Sanafi al-Nasr the highest ranking leader of the network of veteran al-Qaeda operatives sometimes called the Khorasan Group was killed Thursday the Pentagon said... READ MORE

18th October, 2015 585

TURKEY LAUNCHES ITS FIRST AIRSTRIKES OF ISIS CAMPAIGN


Turkish fighter jets carried out joint operations against Islamic State targets in Syria late Friday which posed a threat to Turkey's national security the statement said... READ MORE

29th August, 2015 577


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