Us In Syria Vs Isis

The big questions: is America's strategy in Syria backfiring and ironically helping ISIS get even stronger? Or is Russia merely supporting a dictatorship - the Assad government - in a narrow political game?

Turkey and its rebel allies opened up a new line of attack in northern Syria today as Turkish tanks crossed the frontier from Kilis province, making a western thrust in an operation to sweep terrorists from its border.

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.

The American bombers came in several waves in the middle of the night. Hours earlier, Islamic State militants had used the Syrian village of Tokhar to launch mortar attacks at U.S.-backed forces nearby. As the July 19 air raid began, dozens of people had gathered near a cluster of buildings on the northern edge of the village. U.S. warplanes ...

Syrian militias backed by US-led air strikes have repelled a second ISIS counter attack in 24 hours near a city being targeted in a major offensive against the jihadist group, an official and a monitoring group said on Monday.

The big questions: is America's strategy in Syria backfiring and ironically helping ISIS get even stronger? Or is Russia merely supporting a dictatorship - the Assad government - in a narrow political game?

Turkey and its rebel allies opened up a new line of attack in northern Syria today as Turkish tanks crossed the frontier from Kilis province, making a western thrust in an operation to sweep terrorists from its border.

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.

The American bombers came in several waves in the middle of the night. Hours earlier, Islamic State militants had used the Syrian village of Tokhar to launch mortar attacks at U.S.-backed forces nearby. As the July 19 air raid began, dozens of people had gathered near a cluster of buildings on the northern edge of the village. U.S. warplanes ...

Syrian militias backed by US-led air strikes have repelled a second ISIS counter attack in 24 hours near a city being targeted in a major offensive against the jihadist group, an official and a monitoring group said on Monday.