Iraqi insurgency
Turkey fears influx of 2-3 million more Syrian refugees
Turkey could face an influx of 2-3 million more Syrian refugees if President Bashar al-Assad's forces or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents advance around Aleppo, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt ÃavuÅoÄlu said on Nov. 18.
UN targets oil trucks to cut off Islamist revenues
A UN report is recommending the seizure of all oil tanker trucks leaving Islamist-controlled territory in Iraq and Syria to cut off millions of dollars from crude sales now bankrolling the jihadists.
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Balkans conduct joint military training against extremists
Balkans conduct joint military training against extremists
Paris says 'strong possibility' Frenchman in ISIL execution video
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Nov. 17 there was a "strong possibility" one of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists seen unmasked in a video claiming the execution of a US aid worker and Syrian soldiers was a French citizen.
Serbia works to improve its anti-terrorism capabilities
Serbia works to improve its anti-terrorism capabilities
ISIL claims beheading of US aid worker, 18 Syrians
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Nov. 16 claimed to have executed Peter Kassig, a US aid worker kidnapped in Syria, as a warning to the United States.
The same video showed the gruesome simultaneous beheadings of at least 18 men described as Syrian military personnel, the latest in a series of mass executions and other atrocities carried out by IS.
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No quick change in Washington’s Syria policy
On the same day that the front pages of a number of Turkish newspapers were suggesting that, at long last, U.S. President Barack Obama had got closer to the Turkish leadershipâs line that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go first, the Hürriyet Daily Newsâ headline quoted the new U.S.
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ISIL committing 'crimes against humanity' in Syria: UN probe
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity on a large scale in areas under its control in war-ravaged Syria, UN investigators said Nov. 14.
Iraq needs 80,000 good troops to retake lost territory: US general
Iraq will need about 80,000 effective military troops to retake the terrain it lost to militants of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and restore its border with Syria, the top U.S. general said on Nov. 13.
ISIL most acute 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 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 its efforts on defeating them, the new American envoy to Ankara has told the Hürriyet Daily News, stressi