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ISIL most accute challenge in Iraq and Syria: US envoy
The jihadist threat is the key issue facing the US and Turkey, John Bass says, stressing the importance of the relations between Ankara and Washington The United States regards the threat posed by the extremist jihadists in both Iraq and Syria as the most âacuteâ challenge and is focusing much of its efforts to defeat them, the new American envoy has said, underlining that they will contin
Obama seeks review of Syria strategy, sees Assad removal as necessary: Report
President Barack Obama wants his advisers to review the administration's Syria policy after determining it may not be possible to defeat militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) without removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, CNN reported on Nov. 13.
US-led strikes have killed 865 people in Syria, 50 civilians: monitor
Air strikes by U.S.-led forces in Syria have killed 865 people, including 50 civilians, since the start of the campaign in late September against Islamic State militants, a group monitoring the war said on Nov. 12.
13-year-old ISIL supporter ‘ready to attack Turkey’: BBC
A 13-year-old Syrian in Turkey is training to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the BBC reported on Nov. 6. âIf they ask me to attack Turkey and give me a holy order, I would do it,â the boy was quoted as saying in the report.
US-led air strikes hit al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria: Monitor
Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targeted the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, an organisation that tracks violence in the Syrian civil war reported on Nov. 5.
Iraq blast targeting Shiites kills at least 13
A car bomb blast targeting Shiites in Baghdad ahead of the major Ashura religious commemorations killed at least 13 people on Nov. 2, security and medical officials said.
The blast struck near a tent from which they were distributing tea and water in the Al-Ilam area in southwest Baghdad, also wounding at least 29 people, the sources said.
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Qaeda group takes Syria town from US-backed rebels: monitor
Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front seized a town and several villages in Syria's Idlib province overnight, in another blow to Western-backed rebel fighters in the northwestern region, a monitor said Nov. 2.
Syria rebels attack last regime-held northwest city: monitor
Syrian rebels led by Al-Qaeda loyalists launched a major assault on the government-held city of Idlib on Oct. 27 in a bid to consolidate their control over the northwest, a monitoring group said.
Rebels seized control of most of Idlib province early in the three and a half year old civil war but troops have held out in the provincial capital, resupplied by air.