Nov 7, 2014, Chris Cole, Drone Wars UK Over the past 3 months US, UK and other forces have carried out airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria using manned aircraft and drones.  There is little public available information as yet about the impact of these strikes on the ground .  …

Nov 7, 2014, Newsweek A former member of ISIS has revealed the extent to which the cooperation of the Turkish military and border forces allows the terrorist group, who now control large parts of Iraq and Syria, to travel through Turkish territory to reinforce fighters battling Kurdish forces. A reluctant …

Nov 6, 2014, Reuters Syrian government forces and allied armed groups recaptured a gas field from Islamic State fighters on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Sha’ar gas field in central Syria has changed hands four times since July, when Islamic State fighters first seized it and killed about 350 …

Nov 7, 2014, RT.com President Barack Obama authorized the US military to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq on Friday. That would nearly double the American military presence in the country. He also requested $5.6 billion for the fight against the Islamic State The additional troops will expand the military’s …

Sen. John McCain previously served as the Armed Services Committee’s ranking member. Nov 6, 2014, Press TV Senator John McCain, one of the loudest critics of President Obama on foreign policy, is expected to chair the powerful Armed Services Committee in the new Republican-controlled Senate. McCain, the Republican Party’s presidential …

Nov 6, 2014, Activist Post On a number of occasions, I have documented in relative detail how ISIS, ISIL, Al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and the FSA are not only small divisions of the same fighting force but also how they are entirely controlled by NATO and Western intelligence agencies. Indeed, the documentation …

Nov 7, 2014, Press TV *watch video at Press TV Foreign terrorists are increasingly going to Turkey through booking tickets on cruise ships to join Takfiri groups in neighboring Syria and Iraq, Interpol has warned. “Because they know the airports are monitored more closely now, there’s a use of cruise …

Nov 6, 2014, al-Akhbar Ever since Washington put together an international anti-ISIS coalition, the situation in Syria and the region has become more ambiguous and blurry. The Syrian position has been to accept US airstrikes against the terrorist group as a fait accompli, while Iran continues to object to them …

Oct 26, 2014, F. William Engdahl The details are emerging of a new secret and quite stupid Saudi-US deal on Syria and the so-called IS. It involves oil and gas control of the entire region and the weakening of Russia and Iran by Saudi Arabian flooding the world market with …

Oct 18, 2014, Strategic Culture Foundation US President Barack Obama hosted a top-level war council this past week in Washington with the military leaders from 21 countries in attendance – under the official remit of coordinating tactics to defeat the Islamic State extremist group in Syria and Iraq. The titular …