Ten Colombian soldiers killed in attack blamed on FARC rebels
He said one FARC member had also been killed in the attack which took place as the army carried out territorial control operations to protect civilians in the area. At least. I am with the military leadership consulting about the events, he said.
Ohio Man Joins Fight Against ISIS in Syria: Reuters - NBC.
U.S. Special Operations Forces killed a senior leader of ISIS overnight Friday during a rare and risky ground raid in Syria and freed a young woman who was enslaved in his compound, the White House announced Saturday.
US special forces kill senior ISIS commander in Syria raid.
Abu Sayyaf, a senior Islamic State leader, was killed by US forces, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday, adding the terrorist was involved in the groups military operations, as well as helping to direct its illicit oil,. U.S. Special Operations forces conduct raid in Syria, kill senior ISIS commander, sources tell CNN.. Another dozen fighters were killed in an overnight US raid, an American official speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters on Saturday.
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U.S. Special Operations forces carried out a major raid deep inside eastern Syria , killing a senior Islamic State leader who oversees illicit oil production and capturing his wife, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Saturday.. Reuters Turkey says shot down helicopter, while Syrian TV says it was drone. Reuters NATO member Turkey, an outspoken critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has a 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria and frequently scrambles jets��.
Taking back Tikrit and Mosul from Islamic State could make life worse for.
Victory wont come quickly or easily for the combined forces of the Iraqi government, Shiite militias, Kurdish fighters and Sunnis who have learned to loath Islamic State. But sheer weight of numbers, as well as Iranian and American military.
Under assault by U.S.-led coalition, Islamic State. - Reuters
The militant group, drawing many of its fighters, leaders, tactics and philosophy from the now-defunct Al Qaeda in Iraq, began a series of bombings and killings across Iraq. When civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, Islamic State expanded there as well, fighting alongside Syrian rebels against the brutal regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Fierce fighters, the... Saturday, 16 May 2015, 9:13 pm. U.S. conducts raid in Syria, says it kills senior Islamic State leader��.
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Mother of Japanese captive begs PM to save son held by Islamic State
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan said on Wednesday it had received no assurance that one of its pilots captured by Islamic State insurgents was safe and that it would go ahead with a proposed prisoner swap only if he was freed. The fate of air force pilot.
Last of Saddam Husseins lieutenants may have. - Reuters
While Islamic State fighters took the most prominent role in the sweep through northern and central Iraq last year, they were able to capture large swaths of territory from the Iraqi government thanks to an alliance with a network of former Hussein regime loyalists who had deep ties to Sunni tribes in cities like Mosul and Tikrit. The former Baathists, who include former.. Saturday, 16 May 2015, 11:30 pm. U.S. conducts raid in Syria, says it kills senior Islamic State leader��.
Did Americas policy on ransom contribute to. - Reuters
But today Foley is dead and the Islamic State militants now say Steven Sotloff, a journalist for Time magazine whom the group also captured, will be killed if the United States does not stop bombing its fighters in Iraq.. ���Kidnapping hostages is an easy spoil,��� Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, wrote in a 2012 letter to the leader of an al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa, ���which I may describe as a profitable trade and a precious treasure.
Better the dictator you condemn than the. - Reuters
Militants loyal to Islamic State, the group which has seized much of Iraq and Syria, have established a larger presence in central Libya in recent weeks. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic. President Obama, already musing on failures during his second term, has said he regrets that the U.S. joined a coalition to intervene in Libya in 2011, ousting President Muammar Gaddafi, without an adequate plan for.. U.S. conducts raid in Syria, says it kills senior Islamic State leader��.
US conducts raid in Syria, says it kills senior Islamic State leader
WASHINGTON American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, U.S. officials said on Saturday, an operation that marked a departure from Washingtons strategy of relying primarily on air strikes to target.
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Iraq ministry says an Islamic State leader killed; US denies any attack
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqs Defence Ministry said on Wednesday the deputy commander of the Islamic State group had been killed in an air strike in the north of the country, but the U.S. military denied coalition air forces had conducted such an attack.
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By Will Dunham and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) ��� American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, U.S. officials said on Saturday, an operation that marked a departure��.
Russians march in memory of murdered Putin critic
National investigators who answer to the Russian leader offered a 3-million-rouble reward, around $50,000, for information on Nemtsovs death. They say they are pursuing several lines of inquiry, including the possibility that Nemtsov, a Jew, was.
Anti-ISIS coalition bombing terrorist positions in Iraq and Syria
The US-led coalition is conducting airstrike assault on positions of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) organization in Syria and Iraq.. An Islamic State leader has been killed in an air strike in the Iraqi city of Mosul.. strikes destroyed a storage facility run by veteran Al-Qaeda operatives, while Rami Abdul Rahman, who runs the Britain-based Syrian Observatory monitoring group said two Al-Nusra Front fighters were also killed in the attack, as referred to by Reuters.
Iran insists on lifting all sanctions in any nuclear deal: IRNA
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last word on all matters of state in the Islamic Republic, said last week that the immediate lifting of sanctions must be a part of any nuclear accord. Western officials have consistently rejected that.
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In other cases, IS control over a set of resources is notable not solely for the revenue the group derives from it, but also for the extent to which it limits the ability of the Iraqi and Syrian governments to conduct trade, provide utility services.
Britains MI5 chief warns al Qaeda in Syria planning mass attacks on West
LONDON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or iconic targets, the head of Britains MI5 Security Service said on Thursday. Speaking after gunmen.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, U.S. officials said on Saturday, an operation that marked a departure from Washingtons strategy of relying primarily on air strikes to.
Islamic State militants bulldoze ancient Nimrud city
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have looted and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, the Iraqi government said, in their latest assault on some of the worlds greatest archaeological and cultural treasures.. U.S. Secretary of.
Iraqi Kurds reinforce Kobani; US planes pound Islamic State targets
BEIRUT/ BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Syrian Kurds welcomed the arrival in Kobani of Iraqi Kurdish fighters with their heavy weapons, hoping they might tip the balance in the battle to defend the town against Islamic State, as U.S.-led air strikes continued to.
Islamic State threat in Iraq, Syria
Editors note: Before the Islamic State released an audio message purportedly from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, on Thursday he had not been heard from in months. His last message, the AP reports, was released in November, days after officials said.
U.S. conducts raid in Syria, says it kills senior Islamic State.
By Will Dunham and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, U.S. officials said on Saturday, an operation that marked a departure��.
Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilots death
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordans King Abdullah vowed a relentless war against Islamic State on their own territory on Wednesday in response to a video published by the hard-line group showing a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive in a.
Sisi warns of response after Islamic State kills 21 Egyptians in Libya
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State released a video on Sunday that appeared to show the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned that his country would respond to the deaths as it saw fit. Speaking on.
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Syrian human rights officials reported that an airstrike carried out by the United States on May 1, 2015, in the village of Bir Mahli, south of Kobani, killed at least 64 people, including women and children (www.syriahr.com, May 4, 2015). The Pentagon.