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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 moreSunday, 12 October 2014
Kurds 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
Islamic 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
U.S. military says air power may not save Syrian town of Kobani
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(Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday said air power alone may not save the Syrian town of Kobani from Islamic State militants as U.S. officials appeared to brace for the town's fall.
Although the U.S. military carried out six air strikes to try to keep the town from IS...
Read moreRiots 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 moreTuesday, 7 October 2014
Turkey: Syrian town poised to fall to militants
(AP) — Islamic State fighters were poised to capture a strategic Syrian town on the Turkish border, Turkey's president warned Tuesday, even as Kurdish forces battled to expel the extremists from their footholds on the outskirts.
The outgunned Kurdish fighters struggling to defend...
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 moreSunday, 5 October 2014
Biden calls UAE prince to clarify remarks on Syria
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(AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday called the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates to clarify that he did not mean to imply in his remarks last week that the Gulf ally was supporting al-Qaida fighters in Syria.
Biden spoke with Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, the crown...
Read moreSaturday, 4 October 2014
Obama 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
Kurds 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...
Read moreSunday, 28 September 2014
Obama: U.S. intelligence underestimated militants in Syria - CBS
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(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria, which has become "ground zero" for jihadists worldwide, President Barack Obama said in a CBS television interview broadcast on Sunday.
Conversely, the United States overestimated the ability...
Read moreKhorasan leader killed by U.S. strike in Syria
(Reuters) - A Twitter account run by an Qaeda member said the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan group was killed in a U.S. air strike in Syria, SITE monitoring service said on Sunday, following several days of uncertainty over whether he survived the raid.
A U.S. official...
Read moreSaturday, 27 September 2014
British fighter jets fly over Iraq, no air strikes yet
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(Reuters) - Two British fighter jets flew over Iraq on Saturday on their first mission since the UK parliament authorised bombing missions against Islamic State militants, but they did not carry out any air strikes, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) said.
The Tornado jets left the...
Read moreIslamic State defies air strikes by shelling Syrian Kurdish town
(Reuters) - New U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters failed to stop them from pressing their assault on a strategic Syrian town near the Turkish border on Saturday, hitting it with shell fire for the first time.
The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said the air...
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