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The French military released on Sunday (September 27) footage showing its first air strikes in Syria, which it says destroyed an Islamic State training camp in the east of the country to prevent the group from carrying out attacks against the France’s interests and to protect Syrian civilians. France had until now only struck Islamic State targets in neighbouring Iraq, carrying out just 3 percent of air strikes in an offensive on the group by […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (September 23) – Food and water shortage, bombings, and wrecked homes; these are just some of the problems that the citizens of Syria are facing right now. Since the war began in 2011, thousands of refugees had fled the land to search for a place that will provide them food and shelter. It is alarming that their number is increasing considering that many host countries are incapable of catering to their needs. From […]
QUEZON City (September 11) – Syria’s civil war is an ongoing armed conflict and is said to be the worst humanitarian disaster of our time. The civil war in Syria started in 2011 because of the massive anti-government opposition demonstrations against the Ba’athist government of Bashar al-Assad and eventually escalated into a full-scale conflict. The civil war has left hundreds and thousands of casualties, with many more wounded. The plight of the citizens of Syria has […]
BELGIUM, Europe, September 10 (Eagle News) — The European Union announced that it has completed a comprehensive plan regarding the refugee situation that the continent is facing, with the 140, 000 refugees being divided among the member-states. Most of the refugees are asylum-seekers from Syria. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/_olwlJAIGhg
ENGLAND, September 8 (Reuters) — Britain has killed two of its own nationals who had been fighting for Islamic State (IS) and plotting attacks on British soil, in its first air strike in Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday (September 7). “In recent weeks, it’s been reported that two ISIL fighters of British nationality, who had been plotting attacks against the UK and other countries have been killed in air strikes. Both Junaid […]
SEPTEMBER 7 (Reuters) — Several hundred migrants woke up in a Hungarian field near the border with Serbia on Monday (September 7) morning, after spending a cold night in the open air. After walking across the border on Sunday (September 6) afternoon, some 500 people, mostly Syrians, were forced to camp out in an open field at temperatures of 8 degrees Celsius, as nearby transit camps were overcrowded with migrants. The field, designated as a […]
(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) The number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries has passed 4 million, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday (July 9). UNHCR said that the total was on course to reach 4.27 million by the end of 2015. Some 630,000 Syrians are now living in Jordan, according to the UNHCR figures. But having escaped their war-torn homes, many of the refugees have found their new lives a struggle. According to the UNHCR […]
(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 […]
JUNE 24 (Reuters) — Islamic State militants have blown up two ancient shrines they consider sacrilegious in Palmyra, a 2,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site in central Syria, the ultra hardline Sunni Muslim group said on Tuesday (June 23). The report was the first of any damage being done by the militants to buildings in Palmyra since they seized control of the city, also known as Tadmur, in May. Syrian forces have bombed the city, and […]
(REUTERS) Islamic State has planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of the central Syrian city of Palmyra, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday (June 21). Video released by the group in May appeared to show the ancient Roman-era ruins in Palmyra still intact, despite fears that it would be destroyed after the Sunni militant group seized the city from government control. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not […]
Armed Islamic State militants dispersed a large number of Syrians waiting to cross into Turkey at the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad on Saturday (June 13). The would-be refugees were made to pick up their belongings and move away from the border. Fighting near the border has already forced more than 13,000 people to cross into Turkey from Syria. Some 1,500 more are waiting to cross. A security source said Turkish soldiers sprayed water […]
