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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters gesture atop a military vehicle armed with a heavy infantry weapon as they ride towards the Syrian town of Kobani from the border town of Suruc, in the Turkish southeastern Sanliurfa province, on October 31, 2014. (AFP)

Kurdish Peshmerga forces enter Syria’s Kobani after further air strikes

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 1, 2014 | Middle East

Suruc, Turkey and Baghdad, Reuters—A convoy of Iraqi Kurdish forces in Turkey rolled late on Friday across the border into Syria to help Syrian Kurds defend the besieged town of Kobani that has become the focus of a Western-backed war against Islamic State of Iraq and...

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An image made available by Jihadist media outlet Welayat Raqa on July 25, 2014, shows allegedly shows members of the IS (Islamic state) militant group raising their black and white flag over a building belonging to a Syrian army base in the northern rebel-held Syrian city of Raqa. Islamic State fighters have seized Division 17 […]

Opinion: All roads lead to Syria

by Tariq Alhomayed | Aug 24, 2014 | Opinion

The execution of US journalist James Foley by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has refocused international attention on the Syrian crisis and the debate now is about the necessity of dealing with this. As for the US administration, it finds itself occupying...