November 3, 2014
9:53 pm

An image grab from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV shows Hassan Nasrallah giving a speech in a rare public appearance, Beirut, November 3, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/al-Manar)

Nasrallah makes rare public appearance in Beirut

Hezbollah chief tells supporters Sunnis, Shias are not at war, must fight Islamic State together

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

November 3, 2014
6:05 pm

Members of the Singapore Armed Forces participate in a military exercise with the US Army. (screen capture: YouTube/AiirSource)

Singapore to join coalition against Islamic State

Armed forces won’t send ground troops, but soldiers will cooperate with allies in surrounding countries

By AFP

November 3, 2014
3:08 pm

State-run Syrian Arab News Agency Hebrew website (screen capture: SANA)

Syrian state news agency launches Hebrew site

SANA says it is attempting to ‘diffuse impartial information… on the attacks and violations’ by Israel

By AFP

November 3, 2014
2:30 am

In this Tuesday, October 28, 2014 photo, men stroll down a promenade in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous (photo credit: AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

Assad’s Syria: Truncated and battered, but defiant

While life remains difficult for areas under regime control, Syrians are learning to cope with new realities

By Diaa Hadid

November 3, 2014
1:30 am

In this file photo taken Wednesday, August 27, 2014, Israeli soldiers secure an area where a mortar which was fired during clashes between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad’s forces in the Quneitra province hit in a community in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

IDF says will attack Syrian Druze town if troops threatened

Despite pledges of protection from Israeli brethren, military sends clear message to residents of pro-Assad village of Hader

By Lazar Berman

November 2, 2014
7:59 pm

A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his weapon during a battle with Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 Photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syrian opposition coaxing Islamists away from Israel border

Recently unified under new leadership, Free Syrian Army said persuading Al-Nusra combatants to fight Assad closer to Damascus

By Elhanan Miller

November 1, 2014
1:53 pm

An Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter rides on an artillery weapon as he leaves the outskirts of Suruc, Turkey, towards the Turkey-Syria border, on the way to the Syrian city of Kobani, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Iraqi peshmerga gear up to fight jihadists in Syria

Fighters who arrived through Turkey bring Kurdish militia much-needed armaments to battle Islamic State in Kobani

By Elena Becatoros

November 1, 2014
1:36 pm

Kurdish peshmerga fighters gesture and wave a Kurdish flag from a military vehicle armed with a heavy infantry weapon as they ride towards the Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ain al-Arab, from the border town of Suruc, in the Turkish southeastern Sanliurfa province, on October 31, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STRINGER)

At least 100 Islamic State fighters killed in Kobani

An estimated 576 jihadist fighters killed in northern Syrian battleground town since fighting began in September

By AFP

November 1, 2014
1:05 pm

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 8, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Office/Handout)

Turkish leader, using conflicts, cements power

From the web New York Times: Erdogan consolidates his powers a la Putin, absorbing prime minister’s role into presidency

November 1, 2014
11:46 am

Video reportedly showing some of the 276 school girls kidnapped by Islamic group Boko Haram, May 12, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/AFP news agency)

Boko Haram denies truce, says kidnapped girls married

Nigerian extremist group’s leader Abubakar Shekau claims 276 abducted schoolgirls all converted to Islam

By Haruna Umar and MICHELLE FAUL

November 1, 2014
8:53 am

Mideast Israel UN peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, also known as UNDOF, observe Syria's Quneitra province at an observation point on Mount Bental in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, overlooking the border with Syria, Friday, August 29, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

UN begins review of peacekeepers amid criticism

International body’s internal watchdog says forces respond immediately to only a minority of attacks on civilians

By Cara Anna

October 31, 2014
7:20 pm

Jabhat al-Nusra fighters in the Syrian Golan Heights praise Osama bin Laden. (screen capture: MEMRI)

Unlikely allies on Israel-Syria border, as Assad watches his country split

Israel should beware: The al-Nusra Front is creating a real stronghold on the Syrian Golan Heights, and is no less dangerous than IS

By Avi Issacharoff

October 31, 2014
9:19 am

UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura listens during a press conference after his meeting with the UN Security Council, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

UN Syria envoy urges bottom-up peace effort

Staffan de Mistura tells UN Security Council ending the violence begins with ‘incremental freezes’

By Cara Anna

October 31, 2014
3:23 am

Fighters from the Islamic State parade in Raqqa, Syria (photo credit: AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)

US man pleads guilty to aiding Islamic State

Donald Ray Morgan faces 15 years in prison after admitting to trying to enter Syria to help jihadist fighters

By AFP

October 29, 2014
9:34 am

This Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, photo shows the apartment building in Aurora, Colo., which police say is the home of two of the three teenage girls who, according to U.S. authorities, were en route to join the Islamic State group in Syria when they were stopped at an airport in Germany. (photo credit: AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

US girls accused of trying to join jihadis were ‘stupid’

Father of teenager stopped on way to Syria says daughter was confused about what her role would have been in Islamic State

By AP

Topic: Syria

Nasrallah makes rare public appearance in Beirut

Hezbollah chief tells supporters Sunnis, Shias are not at war, must fight Islamic State together

Singapore to join coalition against Islamic State

Armed forces won’t send ground troops, but soldiers will cooperate with allies in surrounding countries

Syrian state news agency launches Hebrew site

SANA says it is attempting to ‘diffuse impartial information… on the attacks and violations’ by Israel

Assad’s Syria: Truncated and battered, but defiant

While life remains difficult for areas under regime control, Syrians are learning to cope with new realities

IDF says will attack Syrian Druze town if troops threatened

Despite pledges of protection from Israeli brethren, military sends clear message to residents of pro-Assad village of Hader

Syrian opposition coaxing Islamists away from Israel border

Recently unified under new leadership, Free Syrian Army said persuading Al-Nusra combatants to fight Assad closer to Damascus

Iraqi peshmerga gear up to fight jihadists in Syria

Fighters who arrived through Turkey bring Kurdish militia much-needed armaments to battle Islamic State in Kobani

At least 100 Islamic State fighters killed in Kobani

An estimated 576 jihadist fighters killed in northern Syrian battleground town since fighting began in September

Turkish leader, using conflicts, cements power

From the web New York Times: Erdogan consolidates his powers a la Putin, absorbing prime minister’s role into presidency

Boko Haram denies truce, says kidnapped girls married

Nigerian extremist group’s leader Abubakar Shekau claims 276 abducted schoolgirls all converted to Islam

UN begins review of peacekeepers amid criticism

International body’s internal watchdog says forces respond immediately to only a minority of attacks on civilians

Unlikely allies on Israel-Syria border, as Assad watches his country split

Israel should beware: The al-Nusra Front is creating a real stronghold on the Syrian Golan Heights, and is no less dangerous than IS

UN Syria envoy urges bottom-up peace effort

Staffan de Mistura tells UN Security Council ending the violence begins with ‘incremental freezes’

US man pleads guilty to aiding Islamic State

Donald Ray Morgan faces 15 years in prison after admitting to trying to enter Syria to help jihadist fighters

US girls accused of trying to join jihadis were ‘stupid’

Father of teenager stopped on way to Syria says daughter was confused about what her role would have been in Islamic State

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