Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Head of the US Africa Command General David Rodriguez reported on Wednesday that Islamic State (IS) has set up training camps in eastern Libya.

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The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which overran large areas of Iraq and Syria, has set up training camps in eastern Libya and the American military is closely monitoring, a top U.S. general said Dec. 3.

A human rights watchdog urged Turkey on Dec. 3 to remove from its border with Syria landmines which have killed three people and wounded nine among more than 2,000 Syrian refugees camped in a minefield.

A stigma relating to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has attached itself to Turkey and refuses to go away. The belief around the world, including part of the Middle East, as well as among Turkish opposition parties, is that Ankara is somehow complicit in the rise of this group and continues to support it.

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Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, on Wednesday met with his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, on the sidelines of the international informal conference on ISIL taking place in Brussels, reads a release of MAE to AGERPRES.

BRUSSELS - Serbia has listed its citizens who joined the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and it is ready to contribute to the global fight against terrorism, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated in Brussels on Wednesday.

Authorities "know identity of those fighting for ISIL"

BRUSSELS -- Serbia has a list of its citizens who joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and is ready to contribute to the global fight against terrorism.

This is what Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said in Brussels on Wednesday.

The US revealed that Iran has carried out air strikes against targets of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in the recent days.

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The United States has indications that Iran has carried out air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Iraq in recent days, U.S. officials said on Dec. 3, while a senior Iranian official denied that Iran had launched any such air strikes.