DENVER (AP) — Three teenage girls from suburban Denver may have been trying to join Islamic State militants in Syria after stealing their parents’ money and flying to Germany, authorities said Tuesday. The girls — two sisters, ages 17 and
Turkey has finally caved in to American pressure and announced it will allow Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to cross over its territory from Iraq to Syria to join the battle against ISIS. But anyone who imagines this grudging concession represents a
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Tensions grow with China over Indonesia’s Natuna Islands Reversing policies, Turkey and U.S. escalate involvement in Kobani Tensions grow with China over Indonesia’s Natuna Islands Senoa Island, in the Natuna island chain Indonesia has
Turkey is allowing Iraqi Kurds to cross into Kobane in order to take part in the fight against ISIS militants there. This will allow Iraqi Kurds to come alongside Syrian Kurds in an effort to drive ISIS out of the
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — In a significant shift, Turkey’s top diplomat announced on Monday that his country is helping Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross into Syria to “give support” to fellow Kurds defending the border town of Kobani from Islamic State
A Danish citizen accused of trying to assassinate Lars Hedegaard, an outspoken critic of Islam and defender of free speech, has been released from jail by Turkey, although it is not clear why. There are suspicions that the 27-year-old man,
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — A U.S.-led coalition airstrike on a gas distribution facility in a stronghold of the Islamic State group set off a series of secondary explosions and killed at least eight people in eastern Syria, activists said Saturday.
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 20 (UPI) –On Sunday night, the U.S. military airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters in Syria who are defending the border town of Kobane from Islamic State control. According to U.S. Central Command, the
An apparent attempt by Islamic State militants to kidnap a Syrian rebel leader within Turkey has been foiled, raising questions about Turkey’s ability to stop militants operating within its borders. The Telegraph reports that Abu Issa, who leads rebel group
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On October 16, Joint Chiefs of Staff Special Assistant for Public Affairs John Kirby said the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) tactic of centering its “forces and combat power” around the city of Kobane provided an opportunity for more U.S. airstrikes against the
Turkey is turning a deaf ear to insistent pressure to take a more pro-active stance in the fight against Islamic State (IS) jihadists, adding to existing strains with the West under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Western diplomats have repeatedly made
A counter-terrorism expert has identified a large West-London mosque as being the key common factor between the young British Muslims who go to fight for the Islamic State, a number of whom grew up just streets away from each other
(AFP) Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela won coveted seats at the UN Security Council on Thursday, but Turkey suffered a humbling defeat in its bid to join the world’s “top table.” The five countries garnered the required two-thirds
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BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Egypt deepened its involvement in the fight against Islamist militias who have taken over key parts of Libya on Wednesday, with officials saying Egyptian warplanes have bombed their positions in the eastern city of Benghazi. The
(Reuters) – The advance of Islamic State fighters on Kobani stalled on Thursday according to a monitoring group, after U.S.-led coalition warplanes launched their heaviest bombardment yet on the militants, who have been assaulting the Syrian border town for nearly
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has done nothing to stop the advances of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadi group rampaging through Iraq and Syria while killing scores of innocents. Instead of helping desperate Kurdish and Syrian refugees of the Islamic State’s offensive
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(AFP) President Barack Obama attempted to rally allied commanders around his emerging strategy to defeat Islamic State jihadists on Tuesday, as the US-led air armada stepped up its raids in Syria. Coalition jets carried out two dozen strikes to relieve
ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul University student Aysegul Korkut is outraged by the images coming out of Syria. But these days the Islamic State group’s horrors seem closer to home: She recently faced off against masked supporters of the brutal militants
The reports from inside Kobane, the Syrian border town considered a potential watershed capture for the terrorist group the Islamic State, are ever more dire as American-led airstrikes appear to do little to stop the massacre of Kurds in a
On Tuesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer weighed in on what appears to be another misstatement from National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who on Sunday made the claim that Turkish officials had agreed to allow U.S. forces
In yet another event of what appears to be an unending string of Obama administration missteps, misstatements, and misrepresentations, the White House has been forced to back away from statements initially made on Sunday by National Security Advisor Susan Rice
Kurdish fighters in Syria told the BBC that they have retaken a strategic hilltop from the Islamic State militants in the Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane. U.S.-led air strikes reportedly assisted the Kurdish fighters in recapturing the hill known as
