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Timeline: PKK Conflict with Turkey - 1 views

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Abdullah Ocalan Kurds PKK Turkey

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  • cbrock5654 on 20 Oct 14
     
    This timeline by Al Jazeera details the history of conflict between the PKK and Turkey from 1920 to 2013. I chose this article because I still felt I could use some more background information about Turkey and the PKK's relationship, as it has had a great impact on Turkey's participation in the coalition against ISIS. While I knew about the conflict up until the Gulf War, I did not know that it was still active and ongoing in 2013.
cramos8

US Airstrikes Kill Three Top ISIS Leaders in Iraq - 0 views

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ISIS Iraq war politics revolution

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  • cramos8 on 22 Feb 15
     
    Three senior ISIS leaders have been killed in recent weeks by U.S. airstrikes inside Iraq, including the terror group's right-hand man, the Pentagon confirmed. The news comes as the American commander leading the U.S. effort against ISIS in Iraq and Syria says coalition efforts are having a "significant impact" on the terror group's operations.
alarsso

BBC News - Arab uprising: Country by country - Syria - 0 views

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syria uprising post-assad revolution

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  • Protests demanding greater freedom and an end to corruption
  • Deraa
  • March 2011.
  • ...19 more annotations...
  • demanding President Bashar al-Assad's resignation.
  • Opposition supporters began to take up arms, first to defend themselves and then to oust loyalist forces from their areas.
  • February 2012,
  • a new constitution
  • dropped an article giving the ruling Baath Party unique status as the "leader of the state and society"
  • denounced it
  • rebels seized control of large parts of the north and east of the country
  • National Coalition
  • Syrian people's "legitimate representative".
  • 2013,
  • shifting in Mr Assad's favour,
  • government
  • recover territory
  • August 2013
  • chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus
  • destroy Syria's chemical weapons.
  • peace conference in Geneva in January 2014.
  • more than 100,000 people dead
  • millions from their homes.
  • alarsso on 16 Feb 15
     
    Overview of revolts in Syria and where it stands as of December 2013
fcastro2

Turkish forces raise flag on Syrian territory - Daily News Egypt - 0 views

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turkish forces flag ISIS syria politics war

shared by fcastro2 on 23 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • urkish forces entered Syrian territories and advanced to the outskirts of Aleppo Saturday to transport the buried remains of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, Suleyman Shah.
  • Ashma village, on which the forces planted Turkish flag and claimed authority
  • was threatened in March 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) as the radical militant organisation demanded that Turkey lowers its flag and withdraws troops guarding the site.
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  • A soldier was killed in the operation, as far as the international coalition to combat ISIS knows, although it didn’t see clashes,
  • After the Turkish forces transported the remains, they destroyed all the buildings in the site to “prevent abuse of the site
  • fcastro2 on 23 Feb 15
     
    After the retrieval of the historical tomb, Turkish forces raised the Turkish flag in the village the tomb was transferred to. Syrian forces felt this as a bit of a threat and so relations between the two governments remain tense. 
fcastro2

Syria talks in Moscow to focus on humanitarian issues | Reuters - 0 views

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syria talks moscow humanitarian ISIS

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  • (Reuters) - The Syrian government and some opposition figures will start a second round of talks in Moscow on Monday focusing on humanitarian issues, although a broader agreement is unlikely as Syria's main opposition group continues to boycott the talks.
  • do not expect any big breakthrough towards ending a conflict
  • January's unproductive first round of consultations in Moscow was shunned by the main political opposition group, the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition
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  • take part only if the talks were to lead to the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Russia
  • Russia says fighting terrorism in Syria should be the top priority now and has called on the opposition to work with Assad to that end
  • Randa Kassis, a former SNC member who now favors talking to Damascus because of the rise of radical Islamists in Syri
  • focus on confidence-building measures including ensuring access for humanitarian aid
  • Moscow has not said which opposition figures will attend. But the line-up is likely to be similar to January, when more than 30 representatives of various groups attended, most from groups tolerated by Assad or who agree that working with Damascus is necessary to combat the rise of Islamic Stat
  • released 650 prisoners from at least three prisons in Damascus on March 25-27, including women, children, political prisoners and fighter
  • release of these people to the talks would be "just an ac
  • fcastro2 on 06 Apr 15
     
    A second round of talks will be held in Moscow. These talks are said to focus on humanitarian issues in Syria. 
tdford333

Yemen civilians shudder, bristle under bombing campaign - US News - 0 views

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civilian yemen

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  • As Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen rebels, UN and Red Cross alarmed over civilian casualties
  • The U.N. human rights office in Geneva said that in the past five days, at least 93 civilians have been killed and 364 wounded in five Yemeni cities engulfed in the violence, including, Sanaa. The overall figures are likely much higher and it was not immediately clear if the casualties cited by Geneva referred to just airstrikes or the strikes and fighting between Yemen's warring factions. The Saudi-led coalition says rebels have set up positions near civilians but that it is doing its best to avoid civilian casualties
  • tdford333 on 03 Apr 15
     
    Almost 100 civilians have been killed and 364 injured in Yemen due to the fighting there. The toll is weighing heavy on civilians and causing a humanitarian crisis.
kdancer

Is there a diplomatic solution to ISIS - 0 views

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ISIS Syria politics

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  • kdancer on 13 Apr 15
     
    An international summit on combating militants from the Islamic State has opened in France, bringing together around 30 countries from a U.S.-led coalition. The Obama administration says several Arab League countries have signed on for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, but no sustained campaign is imminent.
mwrightc

ISIS releases new video of Paris attackers - CNN.com - 0 views

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ISIS video France cnn

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  • Footage shows Britain's Prime Minster David Cameron and the vote in the British House of Commons last year in which the United Kingdom voted to join the anti-ISIS coalition conducting airstrikes on Syria.
  • "The following are the final messages of the nine lions of the khilafah who were mobilized from their dens to bring an entire country -- France -- to her knees," the video reads.
  • mwrightc on 26 Jan 16
     
    This article elaborates on what ISIS recently revealed to the world about the attacks in France. The "lions" who were responsible for the attacks were identified and a next possible attack location was also predicted as well because of it.
mwrightc

We will crush ISIS, say Kerry and Gentiloni - Politics - ANSAMed.it - 0 views

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terrorism ISIS coalition militants

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  • mwrightc on 03 Feb 16
     
    The US and Italy have come together to fight against the Islamist militants in Rome. Kerry said that "we'll destroy ISIS".
jherna2a

The U.S. Should Stop Supporting the War in Yemen - 0 views

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Yemen United States proxy war Saudi Arabia

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  • jherna2a on 17 Feb 16
     
    While not directly intervening, the United States has been quietly aiding the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen by providing intelligence and weapons. According to the author, this comprises U.S. interests and its moral standing.
ralqass

Saudi Arabia's Anti-Terror 'Coalition' Is a House of Cards - 0 views

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  • ralqass on 21 Feb 16
     
    a collation that Saudi Arabia try to make to fight against terrorist, especially the Islamic radicals.
cthomase

Exclusive: Obama Refuses to Hit ISIS's Libyan Capital - 0 views

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ISIS Libya Obama War

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  • cthomase on 18 Feb 16
     
    In recent weeks, rhetoric regarding ISIS growing home in Libya has been seen as the next likely place that anti-ISIS coalitions will begin fighting. However, this article points out the reluctance of the Obama administration to begin a new campaign in Libya, like the current one in Iraq and Syria.
blantonjack

The Battle between ISIS and Syria's Rebel Militias | Clarion Project - 1 views

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ISIS iraq war Syria

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  • blantonjack on 02 Feb 16
     
    A major confrontation has broken out between the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Syria's other rebel militias. It is being led by two newly organized coalitions, called Jaysh al Mujahidiin and the Front of Syrian Revolutionaries.These groups look to put a hault to the vastly growing terrorist group that has spread heavily into these countries.
blantonjack

ISIS Supporters: Syria Will Be A "Graveyard For Russians" - 0 views

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ISIS Syria war Russia

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  • blantonjack on 09 Mar 16
     
    ISIS supporters and Syrian rebel groups are vowing to turn Syria into a "graveyard for Russians," launching what collectively amounts to an anti-Russia propaganda campaign that in part is calling on fighters to prepare for war against the major world power. Jaish al-Islam, a coalition of Islamist units battling the Syrian regime, is especially contributing to the online fight. This comes after the Russian military upped their bombing efforts against ISIS bases
csherro2

Syria: The story of the conflict - BBC News - 0 views

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syria arab spring revolution War politics

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  • It has acquired sectarian overtones, pitching the country's Sunni majority against the president's Shia Alawite sect,
  • The rise of the jihadist groups, including Islamic State, has added a further dimension.
  • both sides of the conflict have committed war crimes - including murder, torture, rape and enforced disappearances.
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  • A UN commission of inquiry,
  • Western powers,
  • said it could only have been carried out by Syria's government.
  • regime and its ally Russia blamed rebels.
  • More than 3 million people have fled Syria since the start of the conflict,
  • A further 6.5 million people, 50% of them children, are believed to be internally displaced within Syria,
  • the total numbe
  • half the country's population.
  • rebel groups are also deeply divided
  • most prominent is the moderate National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces
  • Iran and Russia have propped up the Alawite-led government of President Assad and gradually increased their support,
  • support of Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement.
  • The Sunni-dominated oppositio
  • Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Arab states along with the US, UK and France.
  • rise of radical Islamist militia in rebel ranks and the arrival of Sunni jihadists from across the world has led to a marked cooling of international and regional backing.
  • alarsso on 09 Mar 15
     
    This article delves into the issues of war crimes, chemical weapons, humanitarian issues, and the rise if islamist groups interventions
  • hkerby2 on 31 Mar 15
     
    This website offers eight steps to understanding the Syrian conflict. The sections include: uprising turns violent, descent into civil war, war crimes, chemical weapons, humanitarian crisis, Syrian refugees in the region, rebels and the rise of the jihadists, peace efforts, & proxy war
  • csherro2 on 29 Mar 16
     
    More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State.
blantonjack

ISIS' finances are taking a serious hit, and it's hurting morale inside the terror group - 0 views

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ISIS war Money America

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  • blantonjack on 05 Apr 16
     
    As a US-led coalition hammers ISIS' oil infrastructure and other financial institutions in the Middle East, the terror group has cut salaries and infighting has broken out within the rank and file and senior leadership. Some units pay has been cut in half, and others are not even being paid. This is causing more in house fighting between the higher ups, which is crippling the ISIL units in general
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