Two drowned Syrian boys and their mother buried in home town Kobani (Update 2)
By Rodi Said and Krisztina Than A Syrian father on Friday buried his wife and two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to...
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Turkey denies turning blind eye to Islamic State as bombing stokes anger
By Mehmet Emin Caliskan Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu rejected accusations Turkey had in the past tacitly supported Islamic State militants operating from Syria and unwittingly...
Suspected Islamic State suicide bombing kills 28 in Turkish border town (Update 3)
By Seyhmus Cakan A SUSPECTED Islamic State suicide bomber killed at least 28 people, mostly young students, in an attack on a Turkish town near...
Islamic State kills at least 145 civilians in Syria’s Kobani – monitor
By Sylvia Westall Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village, in...
Kurdish party says Kobani “massacre” reflects Turkey support for Islamic State
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party described an Islamic State attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani as a massacre and blamed it on Turkish state support...
Islamic State attacks Syrian government and Kurds in twin assault
By Tom Perry and Sylvia Westall Islamic State fighters launched simultaneous attacks against the Syrian government and Kurdish militia overnight, moving back onto the offensive...
Bomb blast hits Turkish checkpoint near Syrian border, three hurt
By Seyhmus Cakan A bomb detonated by remote control rocked an area near a Turkish police checkpoint close to the Syrian border on Friday, wounding...
Kurds close to driving Islamic State out of Syria’s Kobani
Kurdish fighters, backed by U.S.-led air strikes, are close to regaining full control of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border from Islamic...
Turkey, US ease strains on Islamic State but differences remain
By Nick Tattersall and Dasha Afanasieva Turkey and the United States smoothed over some differences in the fight against Islamic State during a weekend visit...
Iraqi Kurdish forces enter Syria to fight Islamic State
By Humeyra Pamuk and Alexander Dziadosz A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday to help...
