NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and NBC Chief Pentagon Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski reported that the Iraqi Army has been worse at fighting ISIS than the US military previously thought on Tuesday’s “Daily Rundown” on MSNBC. “One of the most
MAQLUBA, Iraq (AP) — The young Yazidi girl rocked apprehensively as she described the ordeal that took her from her family, snatched from her home by militants in Iraq, then sold as a slave in Syria before finally escaping to
On Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer offered his thoughts on why the nation of Turkey has been reluctant to join the fight against ISIS, despite the mixed messages coming from the Obama
Claudia Roth, deputy speaker of Germany’s Parliament, says Turkey must end its support for ISIS, and NATO must pressure it to do so if necessary. According to Rudaw, Roth alleges that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is purposely pursuing a
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a Kurdish woman is leading the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Kobane, Syria. “Mayssa Abdo, known by the nom-de-guerre of Narin Afrin, is commanding the YPG
A new agreement has been struck within the 20-member alliance of nations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, meaning for the first time coalition forces will be able to strike at ISIS from close range by flying from
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — A suicide bomber from the Islamic State extremist group detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in Kobani on Monday, as fierce fighting with Kurdish militiamen resumed in the northern Syrian town near the Turkish border. The sound of
(AFP) Turkey agreed to let Washington use its air bases for the campaign against Islamic State jihadists as Kurdish fighters kept up their battle Monday to defend the flashpoint town of Kobane. Under a deal announced by US officials, Turkey
Terrified Kobane residents have spoken of the horror inflicted on them by jihadist fighters belonging to the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Some of the atrocities include beheadings, amputations, eye gouging and the complete destruction of livestock, with refugees now flooding across
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Kurdish fighters have been able to halt the advance of the Islamic State extremist group in the Syrian border town of Kobani, where the U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes for more than two weeks,
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the British Army has deployed a “small specialist team” to help train the Kurdish Peshmerga trying to hold back ISIS. The team is the latest initiative in the desperate effort to stop Kobane on
Most assume that Black Death quickly ravaged the fourteenth century western world was a bacterial bubonic plague epidemic caused by flea bites and spread by rats. But the Black Death killed a high proportion of Scandinavians — and where they lived
This analysis by Riyadh Mohammed was originally published in The Fiscal Times. We reprint in part here. As ISIS continues to advance on the Syrian town of Kobani and close in on Turkey’s border, experts in Islamic radical movements think
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The daily needs of a single Ebola patient U.N. envoy makes highly emotional appeal to Turkey to save Kobani Renewed violence in Central African Republic despite peacekeepers The daily needs of a single Ebola
(Reuters) – Thousands of people most likely will be massacred if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N. envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that
A UN envoy warned thousands could be massacred in the Syrian border town of Kobane if Islamic State jihadists capture it from Kurdish fighters. Outgunned Kurdish militia were struggling to prevent the jihadists closing off the last escape route for
Thousands of Yazidis in Iraq escaped the genocidal wrath of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) but remain in miserable conditions at refugee camps. One shelter in Khanke, Iraq, took in over 70,000 people in August. The conditions there have not improved.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Turkey and America play a game of ‘chicken’ over ISIS and Kobani Russia makes farcical demand for Security Council resolution on Kobani Iran blames Pakistan for terrorist attacks The continuing realignment of the Mideast
Turkish, British, and Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria, all key United States allies in the military campaign against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS and ISIL), have indicated that airstrikes alone will not defeat the jihadist group.
After an 800-man brawl outside a mosque in Hamburg on Tuesday German police deployed 1,300 officers on Wednesday night, but were still unable to separate warring Islamic fundamentalists and Yazidi Kurds in violence which again led to a hospitalisation for
(AFP) Jihadists captured the headquarters of Kurdish fighters defending the battleground Syrian town of Kobane Friday as a UN envoy warned of a looming “massacre” by the Islamic State group. Outgunned Kurdish militia were struggling to prevent the jihadists closing
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition intensified its aerial bombardment of Islamic State positions Thursday in the Syrian border town of Kobani as the extremist group fought street battles with Kurdish forces and reportedly rushed in reinforcements. The battle
As forces loyal to the Islamic State reach the Turkish border, the British defence secretary has called for the parliamentary mandate for military action to be extended from Iraq to Syria, and for Turkish forces to cross the border and
The world is watching the Islamic State’s terrorist army close in on the Syrian Kurdish town Kobani in real time and HD from TV cameras set up only hundreds of yards away on the Turkish side of the border. Panning
