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FILE: Islamic militants have now declared a caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria. Picture: Screenshot.

Israel downs syrian warplane after violating its airspace

Islamic State yields little ground despite air strikes

By Reuters

ISIS have surrendered little despite the broad sweep of forces arrayed against them.

  • Turkish Gendarmerie clash with Kurdish demonstrators during a protest against Islamic State (IS) militants near Sanliurfa, Turkey, 07 October 2014. Picture: EPA/SEDAT SUNA.

    'Only Syrian opposition and peshmerga can save Kobani'

    Turkey has rebuffed criticism over their reluctance to do more to help Kobani’s Kurdish defenders.

    2367 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke rises during armed clashes between Syrian Kurdish fighters and militants from the Islamic State (IS) in and around the town of Kobani, Syria, as seen from the Turkish side of the border. Picture: EPA.

    No direct combat for Iraqi Kurds in Kobani

    The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has confirmed 815 people have been killed.

    2368 days ago
  • FILE:Smoke rises during armed clashes between Syrian Kurdish fighters and militants from the Islamic State (IS) in and around the town of Kobane, Syria, as seen from the Turkish side of the border.

    Turkey to let Iraqi Kurds reinforce Kobani

    Turkey said it would allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to reinforce fellow Kurds in the Syrian town of Kobani.

    2374 days ago
  • FILE: Turkish and US officials said IS were on the verge of taking Kobani from its outgunned Kurdish defenders.  Picture: AFP.

    Ramped up air strikes stall IS advance on Syrian town

    Turkish and US officials said IS were on the verge of taking Kobani from its outgunned Kurdish defenders.

    2379 days ago
  • FILE: IS fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday. Picture: AFP

    Isis seizes large areas of Syrian town

    The fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said.

    2386 days ago
  • Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on 25 September, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Canada lawmakers approve air strikes against Islamic State

    Legislators approved government plans to send fighter jets to Iraq to help US-led airstrikes in the region.

    2387 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on 3 October, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Street fighting rages in Syrian town as Islamic State moves in

    The Islamic State wants to take Kobani to consolidate a dramatic sweep across northern Iraq and Syria.

    2388 days ago
  • FILE: Syrians check a damaged house, reportedly hit by US-led coalition air strikes, in the village of Kfar Derian in the western Aleppo province on 23 September, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Report: Air strikes in Syria hit ISIS-held areas near Turkey

    Rami Abdulrahman said it wasn't clear which countries carried out the strikes.

    2401 days ago
  • FILE: Rebels stand on the back of a pick-up truck driving through the eastern Syrian town of Deir Ezzor on 10 March, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Israel downs Syrian warplane after violating its airspace

    Israel said the aircraft crossed the battle lines of Syria’s civil war.

    2402 days ago
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