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US attacks Isis despite hostage threat
Obama undeterred as air strikes continue even though jihadists say they will execute more US journalists
Obama undeterred as air strikes continue even though jihadists say they will execute more US journalists
A secret, failed mission by the United States military to rescue American hostages, including the murdered journalist James Foley, has been described in full to the Daily Telegraph.
David Cameron has said that it is "increasingly likely" that a British jihadist beheaded American journalist James Foley
Hundreds of Yazidi women who were captured by Islamic extremists are being subjected to deliberate attempts to co-opt them into service as the wives of fighters.
The people of the mountain can see their villages, and the headlights of the jihadi patrols snaking through the streets they have abandoned, and know they cannot return.
US air strikes are boosting Kurdish morale as they hit Isis fighters, and a road is now open for thousands of Yazidis cut off in the mountains.
Isis has used military equipment seized from Iraq in its biggest challenge yet to Assad regime forces.
ISIS has launched a series of attacks across Syria, using military equipment seized from Iraq in its biggest concerted challenge yet to Assad regime forces.
A Kiwi with links to al-Qaeda has taken up arms in Syria and says he will fight until he becomes a martyr.
The humanitarian situation in Syria is worsening and the number of people needing urgent help has reached 10.8 million.
Prime Minister John Key says the Government "lost contact" with a New Zealander who is believed to have been killed fighting in Syria.
A New Zealander has been killed while fighting in Syria - the first Kiwi casualty in the civil war.
"Pathetically few" nations in Europe have stepped forward to offer a safe haven to desperate Syrian refugees, the European Union's Home Affairs chief says.
Syrian rebels reverted to the tactics of the World War I yesterday when they tunnelled underneath a luxury hotel being used by government troops in Aleppo to plant explosives that destroyed the building.
The Syrian conflict encroached threateningly on Nato's eastern frontiers yesterday when Turkey shot down an Assad regime fighter jet it said had crossed into its territory.
Syrian Government troops have seized the last rebel stronghold on the border with Lebanon.
A disturbing video put out by Save The Children has shown what Syria's civil war and refugee crisis would look like if it was set in the West.
Gruesome images have emerged on Twitter that appear to show a Syrian militant group posting live updates as they cut off the hand of a suspected thief.
What's happening in Syria today is an abomination, one that the world is watching coldly from a distance, writes Professor Stephen Hawking.
Six hundred days had passed under a punishing siege in the ravaged Old Quarter in Homs. It was the sixth day in a rebel-held area cut off by government troops.
The Government may well have acted beyond the law in cancelling the passports of New Zealanders intending to join rebel groups fighting the Assad regime.
Bryan Gould asks, "Is the Govt acting on advice from another authority and if so which? Does our Govt claim the right to tell us which causes we are allowed to support and which not?
Kiwis who travel to Syria to fight with rebel forces against the Assad regime are being misinformed by recruiters over social media, a Syrian living in Auckland says.
Aid workers braved mortar and small arms fire to evacuate Syrian civilians from a besieged area of the city of Homs.