From the NYT ISTANBUL — Intensifying pressure on the Islamic State, United States warplanes for the first time attacked hundreds of trucks on Monday that the extremist group has...

Sputnik International reports: Putin said at the G20 summit that Russia has presented examples of terrorism financing by individual businessmen from 40 countries, including from member states of the...

how reporting changes after learning it was French, not Russian, airstrikes [today against the city of Raqqa, ISIS’ capital, in Syria] h/t to Adam Johnson on Twitter

By Ben Norton When civilians are killed, media reaction is often contingent upon who did the killing and why. Instead of blanketly condemning such attacks, the bombing of civilians...

A mass grave site in Khana Sor, Iraq, where ISIS militants executed and buried fleeing Yazidis. Photo Yusuf Sayman/BuzzFeed News Lebanon’s The Daily Start reports, quoting AFP: IRBIL, Iraq:...

Agence France Presse reports: Damascus (AFP) – Syria’s army scored its second important victory in two days ahead of international talks in Vienna, but the US warned a deal...

An image released by ISIL in Iraq. Vladimir Platov writes in Neo Eastern Outlook: International media has been actively discussing the recent publication of the British edition of Mirror Online featuring shocking footage...

Free at last: One of the 300+ soldiers inside Kuweires military airbase after the Syrian army lifted the IS siege. RT reports: Elite Syrian army units have broken the...

An ISIS propaganda point in Mosul, Iraq. RT interviews Sharmine Narwani, a commentator and analyst of Middle East geopolitics: RT: There are more than 60 countries in the coalition...

A Hezbollah soldier lectures ISIS militants during a truce about how their actions are benefiting Israel.

Does anyone remember the bizarre stories that began circulating in the mainstream press in the summer of 2014 and into early 2015, alleging that certain of ISIS' infamous snuff...

Photo Getty The Globe and Mail reports: Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used during fighting in Syria in August, according to a report by an...

Trucks loaded with supplies move to Aleppo in the past hour after the highway linking it to Hama was cleared from ISIS control. Syrian republic reports: The SAA has...

A truck bomb explodes at the National Hospital in Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, after a daytime attack by anti-government rebels on May 10 2015. . The Wall Will Fall, a...

Opposition fighters at the frontline on the outskirts of Kfar Lata, a ghost village in the Idlib province countryside of Syria, in October 2013. Photo AP. Sputnik International reports:...

 F1ea1337  on Twitter: Islamic State in Sinai (Wilayah Sinai) officially claim responsibility for shooting down Russian plane [screen capture above].  China Xinhua News reports: Breaking: #IS claims responsibility for...

Still from video below. Iraqi blogger Haidar Sumeri writes in Baiji District Recaptured by Iraq’s Forces in Rapid Offensive: […] upon hearing that Iraqi forces had recaptured Baiji, a...

A recent piece in the Financial Times called “ISIS inc” sets about trying to explain exactly how this ragtag group of a couple of thousand Wahhabis has somehow resisted...

by Tyler Durden for ZeroHedge, October 28, 2015 On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in...

Christians in the Homs region, their heads shaved by ISIS to distinguish them from Muslims, listen to the new Islamist rules they will be forced to live under. Photo...