Roy Gutman
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 06:34
U.S.-backed Arab militias began a new offensive against the Islamic State in eastern Syria this week, a bid to flush the extremists out of a key transit zone for fighters, weapons and oil, according to defected military officers leading the Arab group.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 06:11
More than a week after the Pentagon announced that it had dropped 50 tons of ammunition to Syrian Arabs to support a new offensive against Islamic State extremists, it’s uncertain who exactly it reached.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 06:18
The United States has opened a new front in northern Syria, bombing Islamic State targets in two locations near the Turkish border – away from Kobani, the Kurdish enclave that has been the main focus of U.S. airstrikes the past nine months.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 07:06
With Islamic State militants pressing a dramatic new military offensive north of Aleppo, moderate rebels pleaded Monday for U.S. intervention to preserve rebel supply routes and prevent Syria’s biggest city from falling to the extremists.
Monday, January 12, 2015 - 06:38
A U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed at least 50 Syrian civilians late last month when it targeted a headquarters of Islamic State extremists in northern Syria, according to an eyewitness and a Syrian opposition human rights organization.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:20
The United States has stopped paying most of the pro-western rebels fighting in northern Syria and has suspended the delivery of arms to them, rebel commanders told McClatchy Tuesday.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 07:18
A Syrian rebel brigade defected to the Islamic State this week, a sign that the extremist group continues to build strength after seizing vast territories in western Iraq and eastern Syria, anti-government activists said Tuesday.