This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Egypt begins evacuating Sinai residents on Gaza border Iraqi Kurdish fighters to enter Kobani, Syria, from Turkey Turkey explains why they won’t send troops into Kobani Egypt begins evacuating Sinai residents on Gaza border
The Brookings Institution bills itself as “the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tank in the world,” but should it be? Brookings’ long-term relationship with the Qatari government – a notorious supporter of terror in the Middle East – casts
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — A small group of Syrian rebels entered the embattled border town of Kobani from Turkey on Wednesday on a mission to help Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State extremists in Syria, activists and Kurdish officials said. The
SANLIURFA Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iraqi peshmerga fighters arrived in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday en route for the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied U.S.-led air strikes. Kobani, nestled
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on Wednesday set to unveil his new presidential palace on the outskirts of Ankara, denounced by ecologists as an environmental blight and by the opposition as new evidence of his autocratic tendencies. Erdogan will
A prominent Chechen commander has been dispatched by the Islamic State to the fight in the strategic town of Kobani along the Syria-Turkey border where the jihadist group has suffered heavy fatalities, Kurdish media network Rudaw reported. An unnamed source
The Islamic State has released its seventh John Cantlie propaganda video, this time shot in the open air in the besieged city of Kobane, where he says the battle is now all but over, and ISIS are “mopping up” resistance.
Over 847,000 Syrians have fled to Turkey since the Syrian civil war started three years ago. The number grew in the last few months when the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) invaded border towns. Instead of providing help, some Turkish men are
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly beheaded a famous female Kurdish freedom fighter known only as “Rehana.” The Women Protection Units (YPG) soldier fought against the terrorist group in Kobane, a strategically important border town in Syria near Turkey. A picture of Rehana
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Sunni vs Shia sectarian clashes grow in northern Lebanon Lebanon won’t accept any more Syrian refugees One banker jumps to his death, another hangs himself this week Sunni vs Shia sectarian clashes grow in
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — A Syrian activist group said Sunday that the death toll in 40 days of fighting in and around the northern Syrian border town of Kobani has reached 815, as Kurdish fighters battled Muslim militants for a
(Reuters) – British troops ended their combat operations in Afghanistan on Sunday as they and U.S. Marines handed over two huge adjacent bases to the Afghan military, 13 years after a U.S.-led invasion launched the long and costly war against
The appearance in court today of the younger brother of a dead British jihadi on terrorism offences after the arrest of five members of the same family may further entrench the growing reputation of Portsmouth as a hotspot for radicalisation.
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian rebels have attacked a government-held city in the country’s northwest and that 19 men died on both sides in the clashes. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Nusra
Kurdish forces have thwarted a new attempt by Islamic State group fighters to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy. The pre-dawn assault marked the fourth straight day the
TORONTO (AP) — A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that police say shows he was driven by
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Just over a year ago, Afshin Kobani was a teacher. Now, the Kurdish Syrian woman has traded the classroom for the front lines in the battle for Kobani, a town besieged by fighters from the Islamic
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Just over a year ago, Afshin Kobani was a teacher. Now, the Kurdish Syrian woman has traded the classroom for the front lines in the battle for Kobani, a town besieged by fighters from the Islamic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State militants are raking in money at a remarkable rate, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a Treasury Department official said Thursday. David Cohen, who leads the department’s effort to
A Nigerian man collapsed in a shivering fit at Madrid airport earlier this month and was immediately quarantined by fearful staff, who had no idea several balloons of cocaine in his stomach he had carried illegally into the country had
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Canada in shock over Ottawa shootings Egypt supports the anti-ISIS coalition in principle only Turkey and Qatar officials meet to discuss Syria strategy Turkey’s military options in Syria are restricted by limited capability Canada
BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-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 el-Zour province near Iraq. The
DENVER (AP) — Three teenage girls from suburban Denver being investigated for possibly trying to join Islamic State militants in Syria aren’t radicalized jihadis but rather victims of an online predator, a school official said Wednesday. Tustin Amole, a spokesman
Pope Francis will travel to Turkey Nov. 28-30, the Vatican announced Tuesday, as friction grows between Cyprus and Turkey over Turkish incursions in areas of sea licensed to the Republic of Cyprus. On Monday morning, the Turkish vessel Barbados entered
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian air force has destroyed two of three jets seized and reportedly test flown over Aleppo by the Islamic State group last week, according to the country’s information minister. Omran al-Zoubi told Syrian TV late
