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LazyLion
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SYRIA SAYS WASHINGTON INFORMED IT BEFORE STRIKES
By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
Syria said Tuesday that Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group, hours before an American-led military coalition pounded the extremists' strongholds across northern and eastern Syria.
The opening salvo in the aerial operation against the Islamic State group marks the start of what President Barack Obama has warned will be a lengthy campaign that aims to degrade and ultimately defeat the extremists who have seized control of a huge swath of territory spanning the Syria-Iraq border.
Syrian officials have long insisted that any strikes against the Islamic State group inside their country should come only after coordination with Damascus, warning that moving without Damascus' consent would be an act of aggression against Syria and a breach of the country's sovereignty.
Just hours after the strikes started, Syria's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that Washington told Damascus' envoy to the United Nations shortly before the U.S.-led aerial assault began. It also said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sent a message to Syria's top diplomat, using Iraq's foreign minister as an intermediary, to inform Damascus about the plans as well.
There was no immediate word from Washington about Syria's claim. U.S. officials have consistently ruled out direct coordination with Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.
But the Syrian government appeared to be trying to position itself on the side of the international coalition against the Islamic State group. In the statement, the Syrian government vowed to continue fighting the extremist faction across Syria, and said it will not stop coordination "with countries that were harmed by the group, first and foremost Iraq."
"The Syrian Arab Republic says it stands with any international effort to fight terrorism, no matter what a group is called, whether Daesh or (the al-Qaida-linked) Nusra Front or anyone else," the statement said. Daesh is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
The U.S. and five Arab countries began their airstrikes on Islamic State group's targets in Syria around 8:30 p.m. EDT Monday (0030 GMT Tuesday), U.S. officials said, expanding a military campaign into a country whose three-year civil war has given the brutal militant group a safe haven.
Syrian activists said more than 50 air and missile strikes hit militant stronghold across northern and eastern Syria, some of which caused massive explosions that lit up the night sky.
The U.S. officials said the strikes were conducted by the U.S., Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
In Jordan, a government spokesman confirmed the Jordanian air force took part in the airstrikes, saying they were necessary to secure the stability and security of Jordan.
"We think it's necessary for us to target the positions of the Islamic State group in light of the continuous attempts to infiltrate our borders," said Mohammad al-Momani. "We will not hesitate to take further actions to target and kill terrorists who are trying to attack our country."
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the airstrikes targeted the northern province of Raqqa, its provincial capital, as well as the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, which border's Iraq, and the northern village of Kfar Derian between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib.
"Tens of Islamic State group members were killed in the attacks," Abdurrahman told The Associated Press, saying they were mostly killed on checkpoints manned by the Islamic State fighters.
The Observatory, which has a network of activists around the country, said the attacks came after drones flew over areas under control of the Islamic State group. Abdurrahman said about 22 airstrikes in all hit Raqqa province in addition to 30 in the nearby Deir el-Zour province that borders Iraq.
He said that other strikes in Raqqa province included locations in the towns of Tabqa and Ein Issa as well as the border town of Tel Abyad on the border with Turkey.
Missiles also targeted the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Islamic State group, he said. The U.S. strikes targeted three compounds belonging to the Nusra Front there, killing seven fighters and eight civilians, he added.
Another activist, Mohammed al-Dughaim, based in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, confirmed the Kfar Derian strikes. He said there were civilians among the casualties.
An amateur video posted online Tuesday shows explosions going off at night in an open area, blasts that are said to be from coalition airstrikes. The narrator in the video is heard saying that the footage shows the "bombardment of the Kfar Derian village." The narrator then adds "Allahu Akbar" or "God is great" in Arabic. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting of the events.
An anti-militant media collective entitled "Raqqa is being silently slaughtered" said that the targets included the governorate building or municipality used by Islamic State militants as their headquarters, and the Brigade 93, a Syrian army base that the militants recently seized.
Other airstrikes targeted a military air base recently captured by jihadi fighters in the town of Tabqa, as well as the town of Tel Abyad on the border with Turkey.
On Syria's southern border with Israel, the Israeli military said it shot down a Syrian fighter jet that infiltrated its airspace over the Golan Heights early Tuesday - the first such downing in decades, heightening tensions in the volatile plateau.
The military said a "Syrian aircraft infiltrated into Israeli air space" in the morning hours and that the military "intercepted the aircraft in mid-flight, using the Patriot air defense system."
A defense official identified the downed aircraft as a Sukhoi Su-24 Russian fighter plane. He said the Syrian jet penetrated 800 meters (2,600 feet) into Israeli air space and tried to return to Syria after the Patriot missile was fired.
The crew managed to abandon the plane in time and landed in Syrian territory, the Israeli official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
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Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Diaa Hadid in Beirut, Zeina Karam in New York, Omar Akour in Amman, Jordan, and Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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Reach Bassem Mroue at twitter.com/bmroue
Source : Sapa-AP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 13:46
By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
Syria said Tuesday that Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group, hours before an American-led military coalition pounded the extremists' strongholds across northern and eastern Syria.
The opening salvo in the aerial operation against the Islamic State group marks the start of what President Barack Obama has warned will be a lengthy campaign that aims to degrade and ultimately defeat the extremists who have seized control of a huge swath of territory spanning the Syria-Iraq border.
Syrian officials have long insisted that any strikes against the Islamic State group inside their country should come only after coordination with Damascus, warning that moving without Damascus' consent would be an act of aggression against Syria and a breach of the country's sovereignty.
Just hours after the strikes started, Syria's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that Washington told Damascus' envoy to the United Nations shortly before the U.S.-led aerial assault began. It also said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sent a message to Syria's top diplomat, using Iraq's foreign minister as an intermediary, to inform Damascus about the plans as well.
There was no immediate word from Washington about Syria's claim. U.S. officials have consistently ruled out direct coordination with Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.
But the Syrian government appeared to be trying to position itself on the side of the international coalition against the Islamic State group. In the statement, the Syrian government vowed to continue fighting the extremist faction across Syria, and said it will not stop coordination "with countries that were harmed by the group, first and foremost Iraq."
"The Syrian Arab Republic says it stands with any international effort to fight terrorism, no matter what a group is called, whether Daesh or (the al-Qaida-linked) Nusra Front or anyone else," the statement said. Daesh is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
The U.S. and five Arab countries began their airstrikes on Islamic State group's targets in Syria around 8:30 p.m. EDT Monday (0030 GMT Tuesday), U.S. officials said, expanding a military campaign into a country whose three-year civil war has given the brutal militant group a safe haven.
Syrian activists said more than 50 air and missile strikes hit militant stronghold across northern and eastern Syria, some of which caused massive explosions that lit up the night sky.
The U.S. officials said the strikes were conducted by the U.S., Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
In Jordan, a government spokesman confirmed the Jordanian air force took part in the airstrikes, saying they were necessary to secure the stability and security of Jordan.
"We think it's necessary for us to target the positions of the Islamic State group in light of the continuous attempts to infiltrate our borders," said Mohammad al-Momani. "We will not hesitate to take further actions to target and kill terrorists who are trying to attack our country."
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the airstrikes targeted the northern province of Raqqa, its provincial capital, as well as the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, which border's Iraq, and the northern village of Kfar Derian between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib.
"Tens of Islamic State group members were killed in the attacks," Abdurrahman told The Associated Press, saying they were mostly killed on checkpoints manned by the Islamic State fighters.
The Observatory, which has a network of activists around the country, said the attacks came after drones flew over areas under control of the Islamic State group. Abdurrahman said about 22 airstrikes in all hit Raqqa province in addition to 30 in the nearby Deir el-Zour province that borders Iraq.
He said that other strikes in Raqqa province included locations in the towns of Tabqa and Ein Issa as well as the border town of Tel Abyad on the border with Turkey.
Missiles also targeted the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Islamic State group, he said. The U.S. strikes targeted three compounds belonging to the Nusra Front there, killing seven fighters and eight civilians, he added.
Another activist, Mohammed al-Dughaim, based in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, confirmed the Kfar Derian strikes. He said there were civilians among the casualties.
An amateur video posted online Tuesday shows explosions going off at night in an open area, blasts that are said to be from coalition airstrikes. The narrator in the video is heard saying that the footage shows the "bombardment of the Kfar Derian village." The narrator then adds "Allahu Akbar" or "God is great" in Arabic. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting of the events.
An anti-militant media collective entitled "Raqqa is being silently slaughtered" said that the targets included the governorate building or municipality used by Islamic State militants as their headquarters, and the Brigade 93, a Syrian army base that the militants recently seized.
Other airstrikes targeted a military air base recently captured by jihadi fighters in the town of Tabqa, as well as the town of Tel Abyad on the border with Turkey.
On Syria's southern border with Israel, the Israeli military said it shot down a Syrian fighter jet that infiltrated its airspace over the Golan Heights early Tuesday - the first such downing in decades, heightening tensions in the volatile plateau.
The military said a "Syrian aircraft infiltrated into Israeli air space" in the morning hours and that the military "intercepted the aircraft in mid-flight, using the Patriot air defense system."
A defense official identified the downed aircraft as a Sukhoi Su-24 Russian fighter plane. He said the Syrian jet penetrated 800 meters (2,600 feet) into Israeli air space and tried to return to Syria after the Patriot missile was fired.
The crew managed to abandon the plane in time and landed in Syrian territory, the Israeli official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
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Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Diaa Hadid in Beirut, Zeina Karam in New York, Omar Akour in Amman, Jordan, and Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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Reach Bassem Mroue at twitter.com/bmroue
Source : Sapa-AP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 13:46
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
US STRIKES KILL 50 QAEDA FIGHTERS IN SYRIA: MONITOR
US air strikes killed 50 Al-Qaeda militants and eight civilians, including children, in northern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Most of the 50 fighters killed in the attacks west of the second city Aleppo were foreigners, and the civilians included three children and one woman, the Britain-based monitoring group said.
The strikes came in addition to separate raids carried out by a US-led coalition including Arab nations that hit the Islamic State jihadist group in north and east Syria.
In Washington, the Pentagon confirmed eight US strikes against "seasoned Al-Qaeda veterans" in Aleppo province.
"The United States has also taken action to disrupt the imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests conducted by a network of seasoned Al-Qaeda veterans -- sometimes referred to as the Khorasan Group," it said in a statement.
The group, it added, has "established a safe haven in Syria to develop external attacks, construct and test improvised explosive devices and recruit Westerners to conduct operations".
"These strikes were undertaken only by US assets," the statement added, unlike the strikes against IS.
The Khorasan Group is believed to refer to an initiative by Al-Qaeda's central command in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region to establish a group in Syria of some of its veteran militants to focus on attacks against the West.
Its members cooperate with Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate, using the group's resources and bases, according to experts.
Al-Nusra's focus, however, has so far been on the fight against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and its members are largely Syrian citizens.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 13:43
US air strikes killed 50 Al-Qaeda militants and eight civilians, including children, in northern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Most of the 50 fighters killed in the attacks west of the second city Aleppo were foreigners, and the civilians included three children and one woman, the Britain-based monitoring group said.
The strikes came in addition to separate raids carried out by a US-led coalition including Arab nations that hit the Islamic State jihadist group in north and east Syria.
In Washington, the Pentagon confirmed eight US strikes against "seasoned Al-Qaeda veterans" in Aleppo province.
"The United States has also taken action to disrupt the imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests conducted by a network of seasoned Al-Qaeda veterans -- sometimes referred to as the Khorasan Group," it said in a statement.
The group, it added, has "established a safe haven in Syria to develop external attacks, construct and test improvised explosive devices and recruit Westerners to conduct operations".
"These strikes were undertaken only by US assets," the statement added, unlike the strikes against IS.
The Khorasan Group is believed to refer to an initiative by Al-Qaeda's central command in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region to establish a group in Syria of some of its veteran militants to focus on attacks against the West.
Its members cooperate with Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate, using the group's resources and bases, according to experts.
Al-Nusra's focus, however, has so far been on the fight against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and its members are largely Syrian citizens.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 13:43
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
UN: 400,000 COULD FLEE ISLAMIC STATE ADVANCE NEAR TURKEY'S BORDER
BY SHABTAI GOLD AND ALBERT OTTI, DPA
The Islamic State assault against dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Syria could create a mass exodus, with up to 400,000 seeking refuge in neighbouring Turkey, a United Nations official warned Tuesday.
The figure includes the entire population of Kobane and surrounding villages, as well as the 200,000 internally displaced people who have found refuge in the town on the Turkish border, according to UN refugee agency (UNHCR) spokeswoman Melissa Fleming.
"The majority of new arrivals are women, children and the elderly, who arrive exhausted having walked several kilometres to safety on a dusty, rough road, with their luggage," Fleming said in Geneva.
According to Turkish authorities, 138,000 Kurdish Syrians have poured into the country since late last week. It is unclear if the entire population of the region will ultimately end up fleeing, Fleming stressed.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 1.5 million refugees - mostly from Syria but also Iraqis - are now in Turkey, as the regional refugee crisis deteriorates further.
Meanwhile, a rebel group in northern Syria has released 50 Islamic State members in exchange for 49 hostages who were snatched by the jihadist group from Turkey's consulate in northern Iraq three months ago, Hurriyet newspaper reported Tuesday.
The 46 Turkish citizens and three Iraqi staff members had been captured in Mosul in June.
In exchange for their release, the Liwa al-Tawhid brigade, which operates in Aleppo and is part of the wider Islamic Front coalition of rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, released militants and the family of a deceased Islamic State leader, the report said, quoting an unnamed source.
Turkish officials, including Erdogan, have declined to confirm or deny that a hostage swap took place.
"Whether there was an exchange or not ... our 49 citizens and officers returned to Turkey," Erdogan was quoted by the Anadolu news agency as saying.
Source : Sapa-dpa /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 15:01
BY SHABTAI GOLD AND ALBERT OTTI, DPA
The Islamic State assault against dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Syria could create a mass exodus, with up to 400,000 seeking refuge in neighbouring Turkey, a United Nations official warned Tuesday.
The figure includes the entire population of Kobane and surrounding villages, as well as the 200,000 internally displaced people who have found refuge in the town on the Turkish border, according to UN refugee agency (UNHCR) spokeswoman Melissa Fleming.
"The majority of new arrivals are women, children and the elderly, who arrive exhausted having walked several kilometres to safety on a dusty, rough road, with their luggage," Fleming said in Geneva.
According to Turkish authorities, 138,000 Kurdish Syrians have poured into the country since late last week. It is unclear if the entire population of the region will ultimately end up fleeing, Fleming stressed.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 1.5 million refugees - mostly from Syria but also Iraqis - are now in Turkey, as the regional refugee crisis deteriorates further.
Meanwhile, a rebel group in northern Syria has released 50 Islamic State members in exchange for 49 hostages who were snatched by the jihadist group from Turkey's consulate in northern Iraq three months ago, Hurriyet newspaper reported Tuesday.
The 46 Turkish citizens and three Iraqi staff members had been captured in Mosul in June.
In exchange for their release, the Liwa al-Tawhid brigade, which operates in Aleppo and is part of the wider Islamic Front coalition of rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, released militants and the family of a deceased Islamic State leader, the report said, quoting an unnamed source.
Turkish officials, including Erdogan, have declined to confirm or deny that a hostage swap took place.
"Whether there was an exchange or not ... our 49 citizens and officers returned to Turkey," Erdogan was quoted by the Anadolu news agency as saying.
Source : Sapa-dpa /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 15:01
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
JIHADIST SURGE IN IRAQ AND SYRIA: KEY DATES
Below are key dates in the advance of Islamic State jihadists, who have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, as a US-led coalition launched its first strikes on the militants in Syria on Tuesday:
-- 2013 --
- April 9: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, announces a fusion of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), which had battled US forces before their withdrawal in 2011, and Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime to form the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Al-Nusra Front denies the tie-up, and Al-Qaeda later disavows ISIL.
-- 2014 --
- January 2-4: For the first time since the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq loses key towns, including Fallujah and parts of Ramadi, to ISIL fighters and their allies.
In Syria, a coalition of Islamist rebels launches strikes against ISIL, accusing it of atrocities in areas under its control.
- January 14: After fierce clashes against rival rebel forces, ISIL takes the Syrian city of Raqa, the first provincial capital to be lost by the regime.
- June 9: In Iraq, the start of a lightning offensive by hundreds of ISIL jihadists, who take control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. They sweep though the Sunni Arab heartland north and west of Baghdad, meeting little effective opposition until they reach within 100 kilometres (65 miles) of the capital.
- June 29: ISIL declares an Islamic caliphate led by Baghdadi across territories it has seized in Iraq and Syria. It renames itself the Islamic State (IS).
- August 8: US jets strike IS positions in northern Iraq, the first American military operation in the country since its troops withdrew in late 2011. Tens of thousands of Christians and Yazidis flee an advance by IS fighters who come to within around 40 kilometres (25 miles) of Kurdish regional capital Arbil.
- August 17, Kurdish fighters retake Mosul dam, the biggest in Iraq, with help from US strikes.
- August 19: IS says it has decapitated US journalist James Foley, who was seized in northern Syria in 2012.
- August 20: US President Barack Obama calls IS a "cancer" that "has no place in the 21st century."
- September 2: IS says it has beheaded another US journalist, Steven Sotloff, in a video that like the first stirs disgust around the world.
- September 5: At a NATO summit in Wales, Obama vows to build "a broad, international coalition" to defeat IS.
- September 13: The IS announces it beheaded British aid worker David Haines.
- September 19: France carries out its first air strike against the IS in Iraq. On the 22nd, France rules out the idea of strikes on Syria.
- September 20-22: Kurdish militia fight to defend the key border town of Ain al-Arab in northern Syria, after 130,000 terrified residents, mostly Kurds, flee to Turkey to escape an advance by the IS.
- September 22: The militants release a statement urging the killings of citizens of all countries taking part in the coalition against the jihadists.
An Algerian group linked to IS, Jund al-Khilifa threatens to kill a French hostage within 24 hours unless Paris halts air strikes on the IS in Iraq.
- September 23: The United States and Arab allies launch strikes from the air and sea against IS militants in Syria for the first time.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 15:00
Below are key dates in the advance of Islamic State jihadists, who have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, as a US-led coalition launched its first strikes on the militants in Syria on Tuesday:
-- 2013 --
- April 9: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, announces a fusion of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), which had battled US forces before their withdrawal in 2011, and Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime to form the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Al-Nusra Front denies the tie-up, and Al-Qaeda later disavows ISIL.
-- 2014 --
- January 2-4: For the first time since the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq loses key towns, including Fallujah and parts of Ramadi, to ISIL fighters and their allies.
In Syria, a coalition of Islamist rebels launches strikes against ISIL, accusing it of atrocities in areas under its control.
- January 14: After fierce clashes against rival rebel forces, ISIL takes the Syrian city of Raqa, the first provincial capital to be lost by the regime.
- June 9: In Iraq, the start of a lightning offensive by hundreds of ISIL jihadists, who take control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. They sweep though the Sunni Arab heartland north and west of Baghdad, meeting little effective opposition until they reach within 100 kilometres (65 miles) of the capital.
- June 29: ISIL declares an Islamic caliphate led by Baghdadi across territories it has seized in Iraq and Syria. It renames itself the Islamic State (IS).
- August 8: US jets strike IS positions in northern Iraq, the first American military operation in the country since its troops withdrew in late 2011. Tens of thousands of Christians and Yazidis flee an advance by IS fighters who come to within around 40 kilometres (25 miles) of Kurdish regional capital Arbil.
- August 17, Kurdish fighters retake Mosul dam, the biggest in Iraq, with help from US strikes.
- August 19: IS says it has decapitated US journalist James Foley, who was seized in northern Syria in 2012.
- August 20: US President Barack Obama calls IS a "cancer" that "has no place in the 21st century."
- September 2: IS says it has beheaded another US journalist, Steven Sotloff, in a video that like the first stirs disgust around the world.
- September 5: At a NATO summit in Wales, Obama vows to build "a broad, international coalition" to defeat IS.
- September 13: The IS announces it beheaded British aid worker David Haines.
- September 19: France carries out its first air strike against the IS in Iraq. On the 22nd, France rules out the idea of strikes on Syria.
- September 20-22: Kurdish militia fight to defend the key border town of Ain al-Arab in northern Syria, after 130,000 terrified residents, mostly Kurds, flee to Turkey to escape an advance by the IS.
- September 22: The militants release a statement urging the killings of citizens of all countries taking part in the coalition against the jihadists.
An Algerian group linked to IS, Jund al-Khilifa threatens to kill a French hostage within 24 hours unless Paris halts air strikes on the IS in Iraq.
- September 23: The United States and Arab allies launch strikes from the air and sea against IS militants in Syria for the first time.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 15:00
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
AT LEAST 120 JIHADISTS DEAD IN US-LED SYRIA STRIKES: MONITOR
US-led air strikes killed at least 120 jihadists in Syria on Tuesday, a monitoring group said.
The dead included more than 70 members of the Islamic State (IS) group in the north and east of Syria, as well as 50 Al-Qaeda militants, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 15:22
US-led air strikes killed at least 120 jihadists in Syria on Tuesday, a monitoring group said.
The dead included more than 70 members of the Islamic State (IS) group in the north and east of Syria, as well as 50 Al-Qaeda militants, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 15:22
Pitbull
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Shyte is getting real
AthenianOwl
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Fury05
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Yay!I hope US doesn't spare a single tainted soul, not even brainwashed kids.
You are seriously messed up.
If you consider how children are trained to be suicide bombers maybe not so much. Is it their fault? No. Is there an alternative? Not really.... Is it wrong to bomb children? Yes, what other alternatives are there?
Pitbull
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Have you seen the videos about these brainwashed kids?
You need to check "Vibe News" on Youtube
Fury05
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And how exactly do you determine whether the children are brainwashed or not? Or is it better to bomb everyone into oblivion just in case?
Well at some point in time I forecast that entire region will be turned into glass if they don't stop their nonsense. That won't discriminate.
You also completely missed the point of my post.
LazyLion
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US 'ELIMINATED' AL-QAEDA PLOT GROUP IN SYRIA: PENTAGON
US air strikes have destroyed a group of Al-Qaeda veterans, members of the Khorasan group in Syria, who were suspected of plotting an imminent attack on Western targets , the Pentagon said Tuesday.
"We believe that the individuals that were plotting and planning ... it have been eliminated," spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told ABC television, referring to the alleged plan to hit US interests. ddl/dc
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 16:37
US air strikes have destroyed a group of Al-Qaeda veterans, members of the Khorasan group in Syria, who were suspected of plotting an imminent attack on Western targets , the Pentagon said Tuesday.
"We believe that the individuals that were plotting and planning ... it have been eliminated," spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told ABC television, referring to the alleged plan to hit US interests. ddl/dc
Source : Sapa-AFP /gm
Date : 23 Sep 2014 16:37
Fury05
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Yeah I missed the point you were trying to make, apologies, heat of the moment post. I still believe there must be a something better than the murder of children.
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These kids have been trained/heavily conditioned to kill infidels in the name of their allalalalah the bakubaka. They are so hopelessly lost now. They are no longer normal kids.
Do you really think that they will all go back to playing marbles or something after the war?
Don't be so naive and see the world for what it IS. The best option is to exterminate them before it's too late. US government knows that very well. That's why they are busy bombing the hell out of ISIS breeding grounds in Syria.
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LazyLion
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[video=youtube;nrmwB0bwtYQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmwB0bwtYQ[/video]
Fury05
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No dude, just no! You seriously need professional help. People like you are exactly why monsters like the IS group exists, fostering hatred and propogating murder, you are the other side of the proverbial coin.These kids have been trained/heavily conditioned to kill infidels in the name of their allalalalah the bakubaka. They are so hopelessly lost now. They are no longer normal kids.
Do you really think that they will all go back to playing marbles or something after the war?
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
CAMERON WANTS UK TO JOIN IN AIRSTRIKES IN IRAQ
The British prime minister said late Wednesday he will ask Parliament to approve joining international airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq.
David Cameron announced the move in his address to the U.N. General Assembly.
Cameron did not mention the prospect of also joining the U.S.-led international airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria that began this week.
The threat of the terror group's grip on large parts of both Iraq and Syria has dominated this week's annual gathering of world leaders.
Cameron also warned against believing that it's necessary to "do a deal" with Syrian President Bashar Assad to defeat the Islamic State group, calling that thinking "dangerously misguided." He said the brutality of Assad's government has been a powerful recruiting tool for extremists during the conflict there, which is now in its fourth year.
Assad's government has not asked for international intervention in fighting the Islamic State group, but Iraq has.
The prime minister defended his decision to pursue the UK's involvement in airstrikes in Iraq, saying that the Islamic State group's threat is global and that "when the safety and security of our people is at stake, we must be uncompromising in our response."
There are lessons to be learned from the past, including the invasion of Iraq a decade ago, he acknowledged, but "isolation and withdrawing from a problem like ISIL will only make things worse," he said, using one of a number of acronyms for the Islamic State group.
Cameron also said Iran could help in defeating the terror group's threat. He met with Iran's president Wednesday, the first such meeting since the Iranian revolution in 1979.
"They could help secure a more stable, inclusive Iraq; and a more stable, inclusive Syria," Cameron said of Iran, though he acknowledged that disagreements remain on other issues. "And if they are prepared to do this, then we should welcome their engagement."
Source : Sapa-AP /nsm
Date : 25 Sep 2014 05:26
The British prime minister said late Wednesday he will ask Parliament to approve joining international airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq.
David Cameron announced the move in his address to the U.N. General Assembly.
Cameron did not mention the prospect of also joining the U.S.-led international airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria that began this week.
The threat of the terror group's grip on large parts of both Iraq and Syria has dominated this week's annual gathering of world leaders.
Cameron also warned against believing that it's necessary to "do a deal" with Syrian President Bashar Assad to defeat the Islamic State group, calling that thinking "dangerously misguided." He said the brutality of Assad's government has been a powerful recruiting tool for extremists during the conflict there, which is now in its fourth year.
Assad's government has not asked for international intervention in fighting the Islamic State group, but Iraq has.
The prime minister defended his decision to pursue the UK's involvement in airstrikes in Iraq, saying that the Islamic State group's threat is global and that "when the safety and security of our people is at stake, we must be uncompromising in our response."
There are lessons to be learned from the past, including the invasion of Iraq a decade ago, he acknowledged, but "isolation and withdrawing from a problem like ISIL will only make things worse," he said, using one of a number of acronyms for the Islamic State group.
Cameron also said Iran could help in defeating the terror group's threat. He met with Iran's president Wednesday, the first such meeting since the Iranian revolution in 1979.
"They could help secure a more stable, inclusive Iraq; and a more stable, inclusive Syria," Cameron said of Iran, though he acknowledged that disagreements remain on other issues. "And if they are prepared to do this, then we should welcome their engagement."
Source : Sapa-AP /nsm
Date : 25 Sep 2014 05:26
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
FRENCHMAN BEHEADED BY TERRORIST GROUP; AIRSTRIKES TARGET REFINERIES
Algerian jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State group beheaded a French hostage and published a video of the killing on the internet Wednesday, a day after the group had issued an ultimatum to France to end its participation in US-led airstrikes against the insurgents.
Hours later, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at stopping the recruitment and the movement of suspected foreign terrorists, particularly the Islamic State.
The video opens with a clip of President Francois Hollande announcing the start of French bombardments in Iraq against the Sunni extremist group. It then cuts to an image of 55-year-old Herve Gourdel, on his knees, with his arms bound behind his back, flanked by four gunmen.
One of the extremists reads a message denouncing the actions of the "French criminal crusaders against Muslims in Algeria, Mali and Iraq" after which Gourdel is pushed to the ground and executed.
Speaking at the United Nations in New York, Hollande condemned "an odious crime for which the perpetrators will have to be punished." Hollande said Gourdel's killing only strengthened his determination to combat terrorism.
France was not involved in airstrikes carried out late Wednesday that targeted mobile oil refineries in Syria. The United States said the refineries provide about 2 million dollars a day to the militants.
The United States was joined by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in carrying out the strikes, Rear Admiral John Kirby said.
"The majority of the aircraft on these missions were actually coalition aircraft and not US," he said.
The US-drafted resolution passed by the Security Council was co-sponsored by more than 100 countries and approved by all council's 15 members in a meeting chaired by US President Barack Obama.
The resolution calls on member countries to "prevent and suppress" the recruiting, organizing and equipping of suspected terrorists.
It calls on members countries to prevent suspected terrorists from crossing borders by increasing border security and monitoring travel documents. The resolution is legally binding for the 197 UN member states, but does not call for any military action.
Some 15,000 foreign fighters from 80 countries - including 2,000 Westerners - have joined the ranks of Islamic extremist fighters, US officials have said.
Calling the resolution "historical," Obama told the council "lofty rhetoric and good intentions will not stop a single terrorist attack," urging states for "concrete action."
"Terrorists must be defeated," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the council, but he cautioned "we must do so in a way that avoids the deliberate acts of provocation that they set for us - victimization, further radicalization and more civilian deaths."
Also on Wednesday, the US government sanctioned 11 individuals and one group for helping foreign fighters join Islamist militant groups in Syria and for sending financial support and materials to Islamic State, al-Nusra and others.
Prior to Wednesday's beheading, the Islamic State group, which has seized vast swathes of Iraq and Syria, beheaded two US journalists and a British aid worker. Their executions were also videotaped and published online.
Gourdel, who was a mountain guide, was abducted on Sunday in the Tizi Ouzou region of north-eastern Algeria as he was about to embark on a 10-day hike.
His captors, who called themselves Jund al-Khalifa (The Caliph's Soldiers), had threatened in a video Monday to kill him unless France ended its strikes against Islamic State.
Gourdel, who is survived by a wife and two children, was the first French hostage to be executed by the Islamic State or a group acting in its name.
The slain hostage's neighbours in Saint-Martin Vesubie, a village in the mountains north of the resort town of Nice, reacted with shock to his killing.
Mayor Henri Giuge said he was "totally devastated."
"Maybe we should not have become engaged in this conflict," he told reporters.
The execution came as the French parliament debated France's involvement in the international coalition against Islamic State. It enjoys broad, cross-party support.
France's involvement does not extend to Syria. Islamic State and other fundamentalists have largely displaced moderate rebels in the fight to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Belgium, Greece and the Netherlands all announced Wednesday that they would contribute militarily to the operations in Iraq.
Source : Sapa-dpa /nsm
Date : 25 Sep 2014 00:53
Algerian jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State group beheaded a French hostage and published a video of the killing on the internet Wednesday, a day after the group had issued an ultimatum to France to end its participation in US-led airstrikes against the insurgents.
Hours later, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at stopping the recruitment and the movement of suspected foreign terrorists, particularly the Islamic State.
The video opens with a clip of President Francois Hollande announcing the start of French bombardments in Iraq against the Sunni extremist group. It then cuts to an image of 55-year-old Herve Gourdel, on his knees, with his arms bound behind his back, flanked by four gunmen.
One of the extremists reads a message denouncing the actions of the "French criminal crusaders against Muslims in Algeria, Mali and Iraq" after which Gourdel is pushed to the ground and executed.
Speaking at the United Nations in New York, Hollande condemned "an odious crime for which the perpetrators will have to be punished." Hollande said Gourdel's killing only strengthened his determination to combat terrorism.
France was not involved in airstrikes carried out late Wednesday that targeted mobile oil refineries in Syria. The United States said the refineries provide about 2 million dollars a day to the militants.
The United States was joined by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in carrying out the strikes, Rear Admiral John Kirby said.
"The majority of the aircraft on these missions were actually coalition aircraft and not US," he said.
The US-drafted resolution passed by the Security Council was co-sponsored by more than 100 countries and approved by all council's 15 members in a meeting chaired by US President Barack Obama.
The resolution calls on member countries to "prevent and suppress" the recruiting, organizing and equipping of suspected terrorists.
It calls on members countries to prevent suspected terrorists from crossing borders by increasing border security and monitoring travel documents. The resolution is legally binding for the 197 UN member states, but does not call for any military action.
Some 15,000 foreign fighters from 80 countries - including 2,000 Westerners - have joined the ranks of Islamic extremist fighters, US officials have said.
Calling the resolution "historical," Obama told the council "lofty rhetoric and good intentions will not stop a single terrorist attack," urging states for "concrete action."
"Terrorists must be defeated," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the council, but he cautioned "we must do so in a way that avoids the deliberate acts of provocation that they set for us - victimization, further radicalization and more civilian deaths."
Also on Wednesday, the US government sanctioned 11 individuals and one group for helping foreign fighters join Islamist militant groups in Syria and for sending financial support and materials to Islamic State, al-Nusra and others.
Prior to Wednesday's beheading, the Islamic State group, which has seized vast swathes of Iraq and Syria, beheaded two US journalists and a British aid worker. Their executions were also videotaped and published online.
Gourdel, who was a mountain guide, was abducted on Sunday in the Tizi Ouzou region of north-eastern Algeria as he was about to embark on a 10-day hike.
His captors, who called themselves Jund al-Khalifa (The Caliph's Soldiers), had threatened in a video Monday to kill him unless France ended its strikes against Islamic State.
Gourdel, who is survived by a wife and two children, was the first French hostage to be executed by the Islamic State or a group acting in its name.
The slain hostage's neighbours in Saint-Martin Vesubie, a village in the mountains north of the resort town of Nice, reacted with shock to his killing.
Mayor Henri Giuge said he was "totally devastated."
"Maybe we should not have become engaged in this conflict," he told reporters.
The execution came as the French parliament debated France's involvement in the international coalition against Islamic State. It enjoys broad, cross-party support.
France's involvement does not extend to Syria. Islamic State and other fundamentalists have largely displaced moderate rebels in the fight to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Belgium, Greece and the Netherlands all announced Wednesday that they would contribute militarily to the operations in Iraq.
Source : Sapa-dpa /nsm
Date : 25 Sep 2014 00:53