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SEPT.1 (Reuters) — The hard-line Islamic State group has destroyed part of an ancient temple in Syria’s Palmyra city, a group monitoring the conflict said on Sunday (August 30). The militants targeted the Temple of Bel, a Roman-era structure in the central desert city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It is the second temple Islamic State has targeted in Palmyra this month. The group detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple on […]
AUGUST 30 (CCTV) — Turkish fighter jets on Friday night joined the U.S.-led coalition air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militant group targets in Syria for the first time, according to a written statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday. The joint air strikes were conducted as part of a technical agreement between Turkey and the United States signed last week after months of talks. Turkey was previously reluctant to take part in […]
Islamic State militants on Sunday (August 23) blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country’s antiquities chief. The temple bombing would be the first time the insurgents, who control swathes of Syria and Iraq and captured Palmyra in May, damaged monumental Roman-era ruins. A week ago, the militants beheaded Khaled Asaad, an 82-year-old scholar who worked for more […]
AUGUST 12 (Reuters) — Islamic State has released 22 of the dozens of Assyrian Christians it abducted from villages in north-eastern Syria earlier this year, a monitoring group said on Tuesday (August 11). The elderly people were taken to Khabur where they were looked after in the local church. It was not clear how many Assyrians remain in the hands of the ultra-hardline Islamist militants, but the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they […]
(Reuters) — The U.S. military released a video on Sunday (August 2) of what it says are successful coalition air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq. In a statement, the military said the strikes “successfully destroyed a Da’esh (ISIL) vehicle-borne improvised explosive device facility August 1, 2015 near Makhmur” in coordination with the Iraqi government. The United States and its allies carried out 18 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and six in […]
(Reuters) — The head of one of Iraq’s fiercest Shi’ite militias called the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State ineffective on Tuesday (July 28). Qais al-Khazali, leader of Iranian-backed paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, also accused Washington of lacking the will to uproot the radical Sunni Jihadis controlling large swathes of Iraq and Syria. The 41-year-old Iraqi said the campaign against Islamic State had failed because of an American agenda to redraw the map of the […]
(Reuters) — Turkey will seek moral support for its campaign against militants in Syria and in Iraq at an emergency meeting on Tuesday (July 28) with its military allies, NATO said, playing down any idea that Ankara would call for help from the alliance. Turkey asked for urgent consultations with its 27 NATO partners in Brussels after Ankara intensified its role in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State, also striking Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps […]
JULY 14 (Reuters) — U.S.-led forces stepped up air operations in Iraq against Islamic State positions, with 29 of 39 air strikes in the country on Sunday (July 13) coming near the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, the Combined Joint Task Force and White House said on Monday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the increased air strikes are a sign of the growth of the Iraq security forces and the ongoing coordination between the Iraq […]
(Reuters) Tunisia President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday following an Islamic militant gun attack on a Sousse beach hotel, where 38 foreign tourists, mostly Britons, were killed, TAP news agency said, citing the president’s office. A state of emergency temporarily gives the government more flexibility and the army and police more authority, and restricts the right of public assembly. Tunisia last had a state of emergency during the 2011 uprising […]
JULY 3 (Reuters) — Egypt launched air strikes on Islamist militant targets in the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday (July 2), killing 23 fighters a day after the deadliest clashes in the region in years, security sources said. The sources said those killed had taken part in Wednesday’s (July 1) fighting in which 100 militants and 17 soldiers, including four officers, were killed, according to the army spokesman. Sinai-based insurgents, affiliates of Islamic State, have […]
(REUTERS) Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as one of the worst massacres carried out by the hardline group in Syria. Islamic State pressed a separate assault to capture government-held parts of the northeastern city of Hasaka, blowing up a security building and triggering a government appeal for all residents to take […]
(REUTERS) A gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire at a Tunisian hotel on Friday with a weapon he had hidden in an umbrella, killing 28 people, including British, German and Belgian tourists, as they lounged at the beach and pool in a popular resort town. Terrified tourists ran for cover after the gunfire and an explosion erupted the Imperial Marhaba in Sousse resort town, 140 km south of the capital Tunis, before police shot […]
