Exodus from last Daesh enclave overwhelms Syria force
By AFP – Feb 25,2019 – JORDAN TIMES A man prays as men suspected of being Daesh fighters wait to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces […]
‘The fighting was intense’: witness tells of two-day attempt to kill Isis leader
Achilleas Zavallis/The Guardian Foreign fighters reportedly executed after launching attack against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by Martin Chulov in Baghouz, eastern Syria Sun 10 Feb 2019 Fresh details have emerged of […]
As IS shrinks in Syria, U.S.-led coalition grapples with foreign detainees
Reuters International This content was published on February 11, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Men, who the Democratic Forces of Syria fighters claimed were Islamic State fighters, […]
800 female Daesh terrorists detained in northern Syria
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA BERLIN Some 800 women who had joined Daesh are being detained in the Kurdish regions of northern Syria with their children, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Saturday, citing a terrorism expert from Human Rights Watch (HRW). Among the 800 were 15 German women, […]
Daesh: What happened to all the foreign fighters?
By AFP – Dec 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on February 8 shows members of the Syrian Democratic Forces , made up of US-backed Kurdish and Arab […]
Daesh Syria stronghold Raqqa falls, but where are its fighters?
By AFP – Oct 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by US special forces, celebrate at the frontline in the Daesh group’s crumbling stronghold of Raqqa on Monday (AFP photo) BEIRUT — The Daesh terror group has lost its Syrian stronghold Raqqa, but the fate […]
Mosul becomes ‘graveyard’ for foreign extremists
By AFP – Jul 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Iraqi federal police pose for a picture with an upside down Daesh group flag in the Old City […]
Foreign jihadis change face of Syrian civil war – Fighters from overseas are an increasingly dominant – and sometimes resented – force in the fight against Bashar al-Assad
Constanze Letsch in Istanbul, Reyhanli and Kilis The Guardian, Thursday 25 December 2014 18.00 GMT Jump to comments (440) Refugees from Kobani watch the Syrian town during fighting between Isis and peshmerga forces. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters Muhammad no longer recognises his country. The 35-year-old former teacher from Idlib province says […]
Hardline Al-Qaeda faction committing appalling atrocities in Syria to enforce Islamic law: Amnesty International
An Al-Qaeda faction in Syria is committing appalling atrocities in areas under its control, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday that urged the group to end its “reign of […]
Syria conflict sees sharp rise in European fighters
COPENHAGEN: A new wave of Europeans is heading to Syria, their ranks soaring in the past six months as tales of easy living and glorious martyrdom draw them to the rebellion against Bashar Assad. The Western Europe-based rebels, mostly young men, are being recruited by new networks that arrange travel […]
Worries Mount as Syria Lures West’s Muslims
By ERIC SCHMITT The New York Times July 27, 2013 WASHINGTON — A rising number of radicalized young Muslims with Western passports are traveling to Syria to fight with the rebels against the government of Bashar al-Assad, raising fears among American and European intelligence officials of a new terrorist threat […]
Former U.S. Soldier Charged with Conspiring to Use Destructive Device While Fighting with al Qaeda-Affiliated Group in Syria
U.S. Attorney’s Office March 28, 2013 Eastern District of Virginia (703) 299-3700 ALEXANDRIA, VA—Eric Harroun, 30, of Phoenix, was arrested and charged with conspiring to use a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) while fighting with the al Nusrah Front, an organization commonly referred to as “al Qaeda in Iraq” and designated […]
Syria presents foreign fighter list in bid for UN to acknowledge terror acts
Syria has presented the UN Security Council a list of 143 foreign citizens killed in Syria fighting government troops. Damascus hopes the move will force the UN to declare the […]
Arab Islamist fighters eager to join Syria rebels
by Suleiman Al Khalidi | Reuters JORDAN TIMES REYHANLI, Turkey — Abdullah Ben Shamar, a Saudi student, puts a small copy of the Koran among his few belongings packed neatly in a holdall as he prepares to set off with a Libyan friend across the hilly terrain separating southern Turkey […]
