Reports: US-trained rebels enter Syria from Turkey
A batch of 75 rebels newly trained by US and coalition forces in Turkey to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have entered northern Syria, according to a monitoring group. The...
View Article75 US-trained rebels enter Syria from Turkey
Seventy-five Syrian rebels trained to fight jihadists under a beleaguered US programme have crossed from Turkey into northern Syria, a US-backed rebel faction and a monitoring group said Sunday....
View ArticleSyria conflict: New US-backed rebels cross from Turkey
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The US launched the training programme for moderate Syrian rebels in May A group of 75 US-backed rebels has crossed into northern Syria from Turkey to fight...
View Article75 US-trained rebels enter Syria from Turkey: Monitor
Beirut: A batch of 75 rebels newly trained by US and coalition forces in Turkey to fight jihadists have entered northern Syria, a monitoring group said on Sunday. "Seventy-five...
View ArticleSyrian monitor: 75 U.S.-trained Syrian rebels enter Syria
Seventy five Syrian rebels trained by the United States and its allies to fight Islamic State have entered northern Syria since...
View ArticleSyrian monitor: 75 U.S.-trained Syrian rebels enter Syria from Turkey
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Seventy five Syrian rebels trained by the United States and its allies to fight Islamic State have entered northern...
View ArticleSyria rebels kill 34 foreign fighters in northwest: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels have killed 34 foreign fighters from al Qaeda-linked groups in the northwest of the country over the last three days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on...
View ArticleScores dead in intensified fighting in southern Syria: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Intense clashes in southern Syria have killed scores of pro-government and insurgent fighters in the past week, a group monitoring Syria's war said on Sunday, forecasting even...
View ArticleIraqi Kurdish forces enter Syria to fight Islamic State
By Humeyra Pamuk and Alexander Dziadosz SURUC Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday to help push back...
View ArticleSyrian Islamists seize Western-backed rebel bases: monitoring group
BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian rebels from an Islamist alliance formed last month have occupied bases and warehouses belonging to a Western-backed rebel group on the Turkish border, rebels and...
View ArticleAt least 14 militants dead in U.S.-led strikes in Syria: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 14 Islamic State fighters were killed in air strikes by U.S.-led forces overnight in northeast Syria, a group...
View ArticleMonitor: After Obama speech, Islamic State wins new recruits in Syria
BEIRUT— Islamic State has won new recruits in Syria since President Barack Obama signaled last week that air strikes against the group will be expanded from Iraq to its strongholds in northern and...
View ArticleSyrian state news agency attacks U.S. plan to train rebels
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian state news agency on Friday attacked U.S. military plans to train and equip Syrian rebels, saying they amounted to support for terrorists. The plan is part of the U.S....
View ArticleIslamic State moves into south west of Syrian Kurdish town
MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters advanced into the south west of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani overnight, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, taking several buildings to...
View ArticleU.S., Kurds strike at Islamic State in Syria
By Mariam Karouny and Jonny Hogg BEIRUT/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes attacked Islamic State targets in Syria overnight, in raids that a group monitoring the war said killed civilians...
View ArticleAir strikes in Syria hit Islamic State-held areas near Turkey: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air strikes overnight hit Islamic State-held territory in Syria near the Turkish border, near an area that tens of thousands of Kurds have fled as the militant group advanced, an...
View ArticleSyrian army, Russian jets advance against rebels in fiercest clashes for...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian army and allied forces supported by Russian warplanes made further advances as they pressed an offensive against insurgents on Monday, in the fiercest clashes for nearly a...
View ArticleKurds close to driving Islamic State out of Syria's Kobani: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish fighters, backed by U.S.-led air strikes, are close to regaining full control of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border from Islamic State fighters, a group...
View ArticleIslamic State advance halted near Turkish border, hundreds of thousands flee
BEIRUT / BAGHDAD— Syrian Kurdish fighters have halted an advance by Islamic State fighters to the east of a predominantly Kurdish town near the border with Turkey, a spokesman for the main armed...
View ArticleEuropean dies fighting Islamic State in Syria: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A European fighting alongside Kurds in Syria has been killed in clashes with hardline Islamic State militants, a group monitoring the conflict said on Tuesday, and Britain said it...
View ArticleTurkey says Syria town about to fall as Islamic State advances
By Daren Butler and Oliver Holmes MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey's president said on Tuesday the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani was "about to fall" as Islamic State fighters pressed home a...
View ArticleIslamic State in Syria seen under strain but far from collapse
By Tom Perry and Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State's defeat in Kobani and other recent setbacks in Syria suggest the group is under strain but far from collapse in the Syrian half of its...
View ArticleSyria reinforces air base under Islamic State attack: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have sent reinforcements to an air base being attacked by Islamic State militants in northeast Syria where no fewer than 30 of the radical group's fighters...
View ArticleU.S.-led jets strike Islamic State in northeast Syria: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-led jets have struck Islamic State positions in northeast Syria in an area where the militants have been battling Kurdish forces, a group monitoring the war said on Saturday....
View ArticleTwo Islamic State leaders killed in Syria air strike: Observatory
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two senior Islamic State leaders were killed in an air strike in northeastern Syria on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The Observatory, which gathers its...
View ArticleAir strikes hit makeshift refineries in Syria: monitoring group
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air strikes believed to have been carried out by U.S.-led forces hit three makeshift oil refineries in Syria's Raqqa province early on Sunday as part of an assault to weaken Islamic...
View ArticleTurkey mulls military action against Islamic State, coalition strikes near...
By Ayla Jean Yackley and Oliver Holmes MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey signaled it may send troops into Syria or Iraq and let allies use Turkish bases to fight Islamic State, as coalition...
View ArticleU.S. training of Syrian rebels still months away: coalition chief
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Western plans to train and equip non-jihadi rebels in Syria will not start until at least late February, a leading opposition figure said on Friday, depriving them of support...
View ArticleU.S-led raids hit Islamic State in north, east Syria: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces launched air strikes on Islamic State-controlled territory in northern and eastern Syria overnight and the Syrian army continued bombing areas in the west, a group...
View ArticleKobani air strikes seen more accurate, Kurds give coordinates: monitor
By Humeyra Pamuk and Tom Perry MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes killed at least 32 Islamic State fighters in direct hits in Kobani this week because of closer coordination...
View ArticleIslamic State pulls forces and hardware from Syria's Aleppo: rebels
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State has withdrawn some of its insurgents and equipment from areas northeast of the Syrian city of Aleppo, rebels and residents say, adding to signs of...
View ArticleIslamic State fighters advance in Aleppo outskirts: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have captured several Syrian villages from rival insurgents near Aleppo, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite Russian air strikes that Moscow says have...
View ArticleIslamic State wins ground from Syrian government in east: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State won territory from Syrian government forces in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, its first gain there in about two months, a group that...
View ArticleAl Qaeda in Syria attacks Western-backed rebels
By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian arm of al Qaeda attacked a Western-backed rebel group near Aleppo on Thursday, the rebel group and an organization monitoring the civil war said, threatening...
View ArticleIslamic State closes in on Syrian city of Aleppo; U.S. abandons rebel...
By Dominic Evans and Parisa Hafezi BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the northern city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday,...
View ArticleKurds, Syrian rebels edge into Islamic State stronghold: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish forces backed by Syrian insurgent groups took control of a hill inside the provincial stronghold of the militant Islamic State group on Sunday after deadly clashes, the...
View ArticleKurds regain Syrian villages from Islamic State: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led air strikes have regained control of at least 163 villages around the Syrian town of Kobani after driving back Islamic State militants in the past...
View ArticleIslamic State in Syria withdrawing from Kobani outskirts: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants are withdrawing from areas around the Syrian town of Kobani, a group monitoring the war...
View ArticleAfter Obama speech, Islamic State wins new recruits in Syria-monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State has won new recruits in Syria since President Barack Obama signaled last week that air strikes against the group will be expanded from Iraq to its strongholds in...
View ArticleSyrian warplanes hit Islamic State-run bakery, training camp: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian warplanes bombed a bakery run by Islamic State in the city of Raqqa, killing 25 people, in air raids on Saturday that also hit a major training camp used by the insurgent...
View ArticleSyrian Kurds push back Islamic State around Kobani: monitor, Kurds
By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish militia backed by U.S.-led air strikes are making rapid advances against Islamic State forces in rural areas around Kobani after driving the group from the...
View ArticleRussian jets, Syrian army ‘target rebels in western Syria’
The Syrian army and allied militia carried out ground attacks on insurgent positions in Syria on Wednesday backed by Russian air strikes, a monitor said. Russia’s air strikes hit northern parts of Hama...
View ArticleClashes between Syrian fighters pose challenge for Turkey, U.S.
By John Davison and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Groups that have received support from the United States or its allies have turned their guns on each other in a northern corner of Syria,...
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