Iraq and the Levant

A US court on Jan. 23 jailed a "radicalized" Colorado teenager intercepted by the FBI when she attempted to join her fiance in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group to fight in Syria.
  

At least 43 civilians were killed and 150 wounded in a Syrian regime air raid targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northeast, a monitoring group said on Jan. 21, updating an earlier toll.
      

The passage of foreign fighters through Turkish territory aiming to join the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is the ?greatest threat to Turkey,? Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has said.

Balkans deal with threat of terrorists travelling across the region

ISIL fighters crossing through Balkan countries are a serious threat because they are able to commit terrorist attacks anywhere, experts say.

Terrorists reach ISIL battlefields by travelling through Balkan countries. [AFP]

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group praised the gunmen behind this week's killings at the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper as "heroic jihadists", a monitoring group said on Jan. 9.

Kurdish fighters have seized the security and government district of Syria's Kobane from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and now control 80 percent of the border town, a monitoring group said Jan. 5.
     

Violence in Iraq in 2014 killed at least 12,282 civilians, making it the deadliest year since the sectarian bloodshed of 2006-07, the United Nations said in a statement.

The Turkish Red Crescent distributed aid to at least 500 Turkmen families fleeing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk on Dec. 29, 2014.  The aid packages were distributed at the Turkmen Civilian Society Center and the Turkmen Women Association Center in the province.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has published in its monthly English-language magazine an interview with the Jordanian pilot captured last week after his plane crashed in northern Syria.

Women and girls from Iraq's Yazidi minority endured horrors at the hands of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants after they were taken as slaves last summer, leaving them deeply traumatized, an international watchdog group said in a report issued on Dec. 23.