Isis Activity In Syria

In a first for this year, the Islamic State has released an audio recording of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which the leader can be heard urging people to stay united as the outfit is being "tested" by Allah.

In a rehabilitation centre in northern Syria, young men huddle over an innocuous game of chess and some cigarettes -- activities they once brutally suppressed as ISIS terrorists.

Every day for more than three years, the U.S.-led coalition bombed ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, for a total of nearly 30,000 strikes. But on Nov. 26, not a single airstrike was launched.

Syrian government and allied forces have taken the eastern town of Al-Mayadeen from ISIS, a Syrian military source said on Saturday, further weakening the militants' diminishing presence in Syria.

Russia's air force has destroyed a large column of ISIS fighters on their way to the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, killing over 200 terrorists, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defence Ministry as saying on Monday.

A car bomb killed 10 people in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported on today.

Islamic State militants fought their way back into the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra on Saturday nine months after they were driven out by Syrian government forces, in a reminder that the group is still a force to be reckoned with despite major losses of territory elsewhere.

A suspected ISIS operative, who had conspired to carry out terror activities in the country, was arrested by the National Investigative Agency yesterday.

US forces hit Islamic State targets overnight near Turkey's border with Syria using a newly deployed mobile rocket system, a senior diplomat said today.

US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Moscow today to again seek deeper Russian cooperation in the war against ISIS in Syria, but he faces strong opposition from defense and intelligence officials who argue that Washington and Moscow have diametrically opposite objectives in the country.

ISIS terrorists are still committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, United Nations rights investigators said on Thursday.

About 100 Pakistanis, including women, have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the ISIS since the rise of the dreaded terror group in the Middle East, said a minister in the provincial Punjab government.

The US will send special forces to Iraq and Syria to intensify fight against terrorist group ISIS, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said, while calling on international community to step up the pace of its contributions to the fight.

The Mediterranean port city of Surt has become an actively managed colony of the Islamic State, which has come under growing military and economic pressure in Syria and Iraq.

A Belgian national currently in Syria and believed to be one of Islamic State's most active operators is suspected of being behind Friday's attacks in Paris, according to a source close to the French investigation.

In a first for this year, the Islamic State has released an audio recording of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which the leader can be heard urging people to stay united as the outfit is being "tested" by Allah.

In a rehabilitation centre in northern Syria, young men huddle over an innocuous game of chess and some cigarettes -- activities they once brutally suppressed as ISIS terrorists.

Every day for more than three years, the U.S.-led coalition bombed ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, for a total of nearly 30,000 strikes. But on Nov. 26, not a single airstrike was launched.

Syrian government and allied forces have taken the eastern town of Al-Mayadeen from ISIS, a Syrian military source said on Saturday, further weakening the militants' diminishing presence in Syria.

Russia's air force has destroyed a large column of ISIS fighters on their way to the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, killing over 200 terrorists, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defence Ministry as saying on Monday.

A car bomb killed 10 people in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported on today.

Islamic State militants fought their way back into the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra on Saturday nine months after they were driven out by Syrian government forces, in a reminder that the group is still a force to be reckoned with despite major losses of territory elsewhere.

A suspected ISIS operative, who had conspired to carry out terror activities in the country, was arrested by the National Investigative Agency yesterday.

US forces hit Islamic State targets overnight near Turkey's border with Syria using a newly deployed mobile rocket system, a senior diplomat said today.

US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Moscow today to again seek deeper Russian cooperation in the war against ISIS in Syria, but he faces strong opposition from defense and intelligence officials who argue that Washington and Moscow have diametrically opposite objectives in the country.

ISIS terrorists are still committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, United Nations rights investigators said on Thursday.

About 100 Pakistanis, including women, have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the ISIS since the rise of the dreaded terror group in the Middle East, said a minister in the provincial Punjab government.

The US will send special forces to Iraq and Syria to intensify fight against terrorist group ISIS, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said, while calling on international community to step up the pace of its contributions to the fight.

The Mediterranean port city of Surt has become an actively managed colony of the Islamic State, which has come under growing military and economic pressure in Syria and Iraq.

A Belgian national currently in Syria and believed to be one of Islamic State's most active operators is suspected of being behind Friday's attacks in Paris, according to a source close to the French investigation.