maginos_GTop Senate Dem Calls for Buffer Zone and No-fly Zone in SyriaThe Daily Beast - Josh RoginCarl Levin, head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, now says the U.S. needs to create a buffer zone in Syria for the rebels, using Turkish …
maginos_GFighting on Multiple Fronts in Syria (Published 2014)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Anne BarnardBEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighting continued Saturday across Syria, with the militant group Islamic State assaulting a Kurdish enclave on the Turkish border, American-led airstrikes hitting Islamic State positions in northeastern Syria and Syrian government airstrikes pounding other insurgents near …
maginos_GEmbattled Syrian president makes rare appearanceapnewsarchive.comBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance on Saturday by attending prayers for a key Muslim holiday at a mosque in …
maginos_GNow an ISIS hostage, former U.S. soldier aided Syria’s woundedverified_publisherCNN - Arwa DamonCNN — Peter Kassig first went to the Middle East as a U.S. soldier and returned as a medical worker, feeling compelled to help victims of war. “We each get one life and that’s it. We get one shot at this and we don’t get any do-overs, and for me, it was time to put up or shut up,” he said in a 2012 …
maginos_GDozens of Turkish Hostages Held by Islamic State Are Freedverified_publisherThe New York Times - Ben HubbardANKARA, Turkey — Turkey secured the release of 49 hostages who had been held for more than three months in Iraq by the jihadists of the Islamic State on Saturday, marking a moment of joy for Turkey while raising questions about how it had managed to set them free. Turkey said its intelligence agency …
maginos_GFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSyria crisis: 66,000 flee Islamic State into Turkeybbc.co.uk - BBC NewsSome 66,000 refugees - mainly Syrian Kurds - have crossed into Turkey in 24 hours, officials say, as Islamic State militants advance in northern Syria. Turkey opened its border on Friday to Syrians fleeing the Kurdish town of Kobane in fear of an IS attack. The UN refugee agency said it was boosting …
