NOVANEWS Smoke rises after a strike on the Kurdish town of Kobani as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border. (File photo) Recent photos of Kurdish fighters killed in battles with ISIL Takfiri militants in the Syrian […]
NOVANEWS A Syrian Kurdish girl holds her sister in Turkey’s southeastern border town of Suruc after they crossed the border from Syria on October 2, 2014. A report says the ISIL Takfiri militants operating in […]
NOVANEWS World View: American-led air attacks are failing. Jihadis are close to taking Kobani, in Syria – and in Iraq western Baghdad is now under serious threat. America’s plans to fight Islamic State are in […]
NOVANEWS The teenagers have been in contact with their families, officials say ADAM WITHNALL Two teenage girls who left Austria to travel to Syria and become “jihadi brides” have reportedly grown disillusioned by life with […]
NOVANEWS “Don’t Do Stupid Shit” by MIKE WHITNEY The ISIS siege of Kobane continued overnight while cities across Turkey were set ablaze by Kurdish protestors. At least 19 civilians were killed by Turkish riot police […]
NOVANEWS The Obama administration’s war plans in Iraq and Syria are illegal, ill-conceived, and destined to fail. Here’s what the U.S.—and you—can do instead. by: Peter Certo If Barack Obama owes his presidency to one thing, […]
NOVANEWS US reliance on ‘fantasy’ of moderate forces in Syria exposes misguided strategy of expanding war, warn experts. by: Sarah Lazare, staff writer A sign seen at a 2007 anti-war protest. (Photo: Thiago Santos/cc/flickr) The backing […]
NOVANEWS Ziad Fadel HOMS: Al-Wa’er: The SAA no longer negotiates with these mostly foreign terrorists. Yesterday, the SAA assaulted fortifications and demolished them in preparation for the major assault we expect to start in the next […]
NOVANEWS Obama administration official says 2013 reforms to reduce civilian deaths in covert drone strikes do not apply to expanding war against ISIS by: Sarah Lazare The rubble of a home reportedly hit by a U.S.-led […]
NOVANEWS Mozafar Najafi The Kurdish Pishmarga forces in Syria killed a large number of terrorists in heavy clashes in the Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobani (also known by the Arab population as Ayn al-Arab). At least […]