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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
U.S. involved in seven air strikes on Islamic State targets
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U.S. military forces carried out four air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria on Monday and Tuesday and were joined by partner nations in three attacks in Iraq, the U.S. Central Command said.
Fighter, bomber and attack aircraft were used in the raids and all returned...
Read moreSunday, 19 October 2014
Fiercest fighting in days hits Syrian border town
(Reuters) - The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight as Islamic State fighters attacked Kurdish defenders with mortars and car bombs, sources in the town and a monitoring group said on Sunday.
Islamic State, which controls much of Syria and Iraq,...
Read moreThursday, 16 October 2014
Ramped up air strikes stall Islamic State advance on Syrian town
(Reuters) - Two days of heavy air strikes by U.S. warplanes have slowed an advance by Islamic State militants against Kurdish forces defending the Syrian border town of Kobani.
Last week Turkish and U.S. officials said Islamic State were on the verge of taking Kobani from...
Read moreMonday, 13 October 2014
Turkey: No new deal with US on using air base
(AP) — NATO allies Turkey and the United States differed Monday on where they stand on the use of a key air base, with Turkish officials denying reports from the United States that there was a new agreement on its use for operations against Islamic State militants.
The impasse...
Read moreIslamic State forces 180,000 to flee in Iraq
(Reuters) - Fighting in Iraq's western Anbar province has forced up to 180,000 people to flee since the city of Hit fell to Islamic State earlier this month, the United Nations said on Monday.
Islamic State fighters extended that advance by overrunning a military base that the...
Read moreSunday, 12 October 2014
US used attack helicopters near Baghdad
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(AP) — The top U.S. military officer says the U.S. called in Apache helicopters to prevent Iraqi forces from being overrun by Islamic State militants in a recent fight near Baghdad's airport.
Gen. Martin Dempsey says the extremists were within about 15 miles and had they overrun...
Read moreKurds urge more air strikes in Kobani; monitor warns of defeat
(Reuters) - Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday.
A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces faced inevitable...
Read moreThursday, 9 October 2014
Turkey, Kurd tensions worry US in fight for Kobani
(AP) — Even as it prods Turkey to step up in the global fight against Islamic State militants, the United States is worried that Ankara might use military action to target Kurdish fighters who are the last line of defense against extremists trying to take over the Syrian border...
Read moreIslamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes
(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as U.S.-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces looked on without intervening.
With Washington ruling out a ground operation...
Read moreWednesday, 8 October 2014
Riots in Turkey kill 21 over failure to aid besieged Syrian Kurds
(Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed in riots across Turkey, the deadliest street unrest in years, after the Kurdish minority rose up in fury at the government's refusal to protect a besieged Syrian town from Islamic State.
Street battles raged between Kurdish protesters...
Read moreMonday, 6 October 2014
Islamic State raises flag in eastern Kobani, Kurds say town has not fallen
(Reuters) - Islamic State raised its flag on a building on the outskirts of the Syrian frontier town of Kobani on Monday after an assault of almost three weeks, but the town's Kurdish defenders said its fighters had not reached the city centre.
A black flag belonging to Islamic...
Read moreSaturday, 4 October 2014
Parents of American held by Islamic State appeal for his release
(Reuters) - The parents of an American humanitarian worker held hostage by Islamic State militants appealed for his release on Saturday, speaking in a statement and a video message that highlighted his aid work and mentioned his conversion to Islam.
Ed and Paula Kassig, of Indianapolis,...
Read moreUK leader: British hostage's killers must be found
(AP) — The Islamic State extremists who have beheaded another Western hostage are deaf to reason and must be destroyed, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday as Muslims worldwide were urged to pray for the victim on one of Islam's holiest days.
Cameron, speaking...
Read moreObama envoy sees long road ahead in war with Islamic State
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(Reuters) - The U.S. envoy charged by President Barack Obama with building a coalition to fight the militant group Islamic State warned on Friday that the war against the jihadists was in its early stages.
"The fight will not be easy. There will be ebb and flow on the battlefield,"...
Read moreFriday, 3 October 2014
Islamic State beheads British hostage Henning in new video
(Reuters) - Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Friday that purported to show the beheading of a man it identified as British citizen Alan Henning.
The footage on YouTube, which was linked to on pro-Islamic State Twitter feeds, showed a man...
Read moreKurds call to arms as Islamic State closes in on Syrian town
(Reuters) - The main Kurdish armed group in Syria called on its kinsmen across the region to help it stop a massacre in the Syrian town of Kobani as Islamic State militants armed with tanks edged closer on its outskirts and pummelled it with artillery fire.
Islamic State's battlefield...
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