Special to WorldTribune.com In a move seen as retribution for recent defeats at the hands of Kurdish fighters, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) massacred 146 civilians in and around the Syria city of Kobane. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 120 civilians were killed in a 24-hour period that began on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Al Qaida, frustrated by setbacks in northern Syria, has resumed the abduction of Kurds. The opposition said Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was kidnapping scores of Kurds in the battle to capture Kurdish enclaves near the Syrian border with Turkey. So far, more than 50 Kurds […]
