UK lawmakers vote to launch airstrikes on ISIS in Syria
British lawmakers voted by a wide margin Wednesday to join the international campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, after Prime Minister David Cameron asserted that bombing...
View ArticleAirstrikes hurt, but don't halt, IS oil smuggling operations
The United States and Russia are going after the Islamic State group's oil industry, destroying refineries and hundreds of tanker trucks transporting oil from eastern Syria in a heavy bombardment in...
View ArticleWorld split as British join fight against Islamic State in Syria
Britain joined U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, but demonstrating the limits to international solidarity, Vladimir Putin issued bitter new denunciations of Turkey for...
View ArticleA Serious War Calls for a Serious Strategy
On the very day that President Obama declared ISIS to be “contained,” it reached hundreds of miles outside the borders of its so-called caliphate and struck the heart of Paris. The dead and wounded are...
View ArticleObama’s best choice: Put boots on the ground and snuff the Islamic State
President Obama has no choice now. If he wants to defeat the Islamic State, he’ll have to become a real war leader. He may not like it, but putting troops on the ground is the surest way to win this...
View ArticleSyria no breeding ground for IS: Assad
ROME: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday his country was not a breeding ground for the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group, blaming the creation of the jihadist organisation on the West....
View ArticleSyria air strikes: Who is fighting who?
Control is now almost exclusively confined to territory in the west of the country, but has regained ground under cover of Russian air strikes. Friends: Iran, Hezbollah, Iranian-backed Shi'ite...
View ArticleFrom Iraqi Jails to the Paris Carnage: Islamic State Timeline
Attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 claimed by Islamic State left at least 129 people dead and scores more wounded in the worst terrorist assault in Europe for a decade. Below is a timeline of seminal events...
View ArticleAirstrikes hurt, but don't halt, IS oil smuggling operations
The United States and Russia are going after the Islamic State group's oil industry, destroying refineries and hundreds of tanker trucks transporting oil from eastern Syria in a heavy bombardment in...
View ArticlePat Buchanan: Is Putin our ally in Syria?
Among the presidential candidates of the Republican Party and their foreign policy leaders on Capitol Hill, the cry is almost universal: Barack Obama has no strategy for winning the war on Islamic...
View ArticleRecord Bombing of Islamic State Targets Tallied by U.S. Military
The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State last month dropped the most bombs in its 16-month campaign in Iraq and Syria, according to new Air Force data. The 3,271 munitions used in November were...
View ArticleIslamic State under pressure as Kurds take Syrian town
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish forces dealt a blow to Islamic State by capturing an important town on Friday in the latest stage of a powerful offensive in northeast Syria, a Kurdish militia spokesman...
View ArticleAP ANALYSIS: US-led airstrikes have hardly dented Islamic State's gains in...
Published October 07, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Email Print FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2014 file photo, smoke rises after a shell lands in Kobani in Syria as fighting intensifies between...
View ArticleUS airdrops ammunition to Syrian Arab rebels
BEIRUT/WASHINGTON: US forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running civil war by intervening on...
View ArticleSyria A Strategic Blunder By United States
By Manish Rai Despite years of diplomacy and a CIA operation to equip and train moderate rebels, the US finds itself without a credible partner on the ground in Syria as it bombs the Islamic State....
View ArticleThreat posed by Islamic State is overstated
The United States has a tradition of misinterpreting the Middle East. President George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 with misplaced certainty, misconstrued assumptions and poor foresight. After the Arab...
View ArticleKurds fight the IS group while being bombed by Turkey
Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq Friday and Saturday in what were the first strikes since a peace deal was announced in 2013. The strikes in Iraq targeted the...
View ArticleQ&A: Kurds fight Islamic State and endure attacks
Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq Friday and Saturday in what were the first strikes since a peace deal was announced in 2013. The strikes in Iraq targeted the...
View ArticleRejecting an Alliance with Syria to Counter the Islamic State is Madness
The rapid military advances made in recent months by the Islamic State, the radical jihadist organization that declared a caliphate over territories belonging to Iraq and Syria in June, has yet again...
View ArticleKurds drive Islamic State fighters from strategic border crossing
ARBIL, IRAQ / MURSITPINAR, TURKEY— Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe, in one...
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