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Rebel groups from northern and eastern Syria demanded aid Wednesday from the country’s exiled opposition to allow them to fight against the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) group.
“We, the leaders of the brigades and battalions… give the National Coalition, the (opposition) interim government, the (rebel) Supreme Military Council and all the leading bodies of the Syrian revolution a week to send reinforcements and complete aid,” the statement said.
The Al-Qaeda breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and Syria captured a key Syrian town near the Iraq border from other rebels on Tuesday and advanced toward a stronghold of its main jihadi rivals, an activist group said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Boukamal fell to the militants early Tuesday following days of battles between the group and other factions led by the Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate.
The Israeli Air Force pounded the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday morning with 34 targets hit by jets in response to a barrage of rockets that pounded Israel’s South on Monday.
Terrorists in Gaza fired 8 rockets since midnight into Israel. Four were fired at around midnight, and another four early on Tuesday, following the air force’s strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip. All projectiles fell in open areas and failed to cause injuries or damages.
Pakistan’s military launched a ground assault in North Waziristan tribal area on Monday, beginning a new phase in its offensive against Taliban militants, officials said.
Tension is brewing along the Sudan-Ethiopia border after ten Sudanese soldiers were killed in a skirmish with a militia group there on Saturday, the army and witnesses said. Sudanese farmers in Gedaref State told the {African Press Agency } on Sunday that another 13 soldiers were injured in the attack believed to have been carried out by an Ethiopian militia.
Other reports spoke of Sudan’s Paramilitary Popular Defense (PDF) amassing troops near the border with Ethiopia in the wake of the incident, the second in one month.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Sunni militant group that’s been leading an insurgency in Iraq, made a bold statement today: The organization’s Shura Council has declared a new caliphate, and the organization’s extremist leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is the new caliph.
As Al-Jazeera explains, the caliphate refers to a “system of rule that ended nearly 100 years ago with the fall of the Ottoman empire.” According to the network’s reading of the statement, the new caliphate “stretches from Iraq’s Diyala province to Syria’s Aleppo.”
Suspected members of the Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram, have attacked three communities in Chibok Local Government Area in Borno State, killing no fewer than 10 persons.
According to the president, Kibaku Youth Association of Nigeria, Mr. Moses Zakwa, three communities were attacked by the insurgents.