Greater Middle East
FAIR serves up more lies on Syria
The poorly named Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (sic) continues to propagate the bogus conspiracy theory of a CIA effort to overthrow the Bashar Assad dictatorship.
Tag: ISIS
North Africa
Libya: ISIS gains as rival regimes fight each other
ISIS launched an audacious attack on Tripoli, as Libya's two rival governments continue to wage war on each other, with new air-strikes on the contested city of Benghazi.
Iraq
Sectarian massacres continue in Syria and Iraq
The Nusra Front fired hundreds of missiles into beseiged Alwaite villages in Syria, while ISIS claimed responsibility for suicide blasts that targeted Shi'ite areas of Baghdad.
North Africa
ISIS complains about jihadist rivals in Libya
The latest edition of the English-language ISIS magazine Dabiq includes a tirade against Qaeda-aligned forces in Libya, amid an internecine war of jihadist factions.
Greater Middle East
Syrian rebels pledge to defeat Russian ‘occupation’
Amid signs of an escalating Russian intervention in Syria, the opposition government-in-exile issued a statement pledging to "defeat any foreign occupation."
Greater Middle East
ISIS seizes last oil-field from Assad regime
ISIS fighters seized the last oil-field still under the control of the Assad regime after several days of fighting. The Jazal field has a production capacity of 2,500 barrels per day.
Greater Middle East
UN rights expert: ‘no end in sight’ for Syria conflict
Syrian civilians are facing war crimes and crimes against humanity with "no end in sight," the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the war finds in its latest report.
Iraq
Iraq: Kakai militia prepares to fight ISIS
The Kakai religious minority, targeted for extermination by ISIS, has formed a battalion to defend their villages on the frontline in northern Iraq—and are desperately in need of guns.
Iraq
Russia launches Syria intervention
Russian fighter pilots are arriving in Syria, to begin sorties against ISIS and rebel forces—amid reports that Moscow's elite units are already fighting on the ground for the regime.
Iraq
ISIS named in new Syria chemical attack
Aid workers in Aleppo governorate report treating patients for symptoms of a mustard-gas attack in a rebel-held town that had come under mortar fire by ISIS.
North Africa
Libya’s ‘official’ regime calls for air-strikes on ISIS
Libya's "recognized" government, now exiled to the country's east, called for international air-strikes against ISIS positions in the country—a call rejected by the "rebel" regime in Tripoli.
Greater Middle East
Erdogan-ISIS pincer against Kurds
The Turkish army is shelling and burning Kurdish villages in the country's east, while just across the Syrian border ISIS continues to harass Kurdish towns with suicide attacks.