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A lone Kurdish flag flutters in the wind next to YPG Kurdish fighters standing on the hill after they took over from ISIS militants near Kobani, Syria. (EPA/Sedat Suna)
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Demonstrators at a rally supporting Kurdistan hold placards protesting against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in front of the White House on August 16, 2014 in Washington, DC. Jihadists carried out a “massacre” in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members of the Yazidi religious […]
Opinion: To Defeat ISIS, Save Syria
Given the media’s focus on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), some “experts” claim that the crisis in Syria, now heading into its fourth year, has become a sideshow. The truth, however, is that Syria remains at the center of the crisis shaking the political...Caption:
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on July 16, 2014, shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad being sworn in for a new seven-year term, during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / HO / SANA)
Opinion: Will ISIS prolong Assad’s rule?
The welcome extended by Syrian state media to the US airstrikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its subsequent remarks about Washington being in one trench with the Syrian government forces may seem a ridiculous and embarrassing joke to Washington....Caption:
Thick smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border, on October 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Activists: Syria airstrikes toll over 500
Beirut, AP—US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria have killed more than 500 people, mainly Islamic militants, since they began last month, activists said Thursday, as warplanes targeted an oil field in the eastern Deir Ezzor province near Iraq. The Britain-based Syrian...Caption:
People gesturing as smoke rises in the sky following an attack by jet aircraft on the Syrian town of Kobani, on October 22, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC)