syria

Fierce battle raging for days in Kobane, Syria with hundreds dead. Kurdish fighters have been defending the town from an advance by Islamic State militants. Coalition forces led by the American Army are currently carrying out air strikes in the area. An estimated 140,000 civilians have fled...

Ghaith Mahmoud and Abd AlRaheem Mrouh were beheaded Sep 15 by a rebel group in Damascus.

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A Sinai-based militant group released a beheading video on Thursday showing the murder of four Egyptians, accusing them of providing Israel with intelligence for an airstrike that killed three of its fighters. The men had been abducted by gunmen two days earlier while driving in the town of...

Islamic State posted a new HD beheading video of a young peshmerga soldier on YouTube but they removed it before I could save. YouTube now delete Islamic State videos within seconds after upload I suppose after James Foley's beheading vid they have become more vigilant and won't let another HD...

Video and images from a few hours ago. Islamic State captured Tabqa airbase yesterday and captured more than 200 Syrian soldiers stationed there. <object id="player" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" name="player" width="575" height="362"><param name="movie"...

Reports are coming in of another wave of mass executions in Syria and Iraq with nearly 1,000 people executed by Islamic State on Saturday. More than 700 members of the al-Sheitaat tribe were either beheaded or shot to death yesterday for refusing to join the world's newest state. Meanwhile in...