ISIS suspected of carrying out twin car bomb blasts in Syria which kill at least 46 and wound more than 100 in one of the civil war's deadliest attacks yet

ISIS suspected of carrying out twin car bomb blasts in Syria which kill at least 46 and wound more than 100 in one of the civil war's deadliest attacks yet
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Double attacks target Zahara district in government-controlled Homs
Residents are mostly Alawites, the minority sect of ruling Assad clan
Regime forces advance on ISIS in northern province of Aleppo
US secretary of State John Kerry announces deal with Russia
Provisional agreement is on the terms of a ceasefire in Syria


Two blasts in the central Syrian city of Homs killed at least 46 people in one of the deadliest attacks to hit the city in five years of civil war.

More than 100 people were wounded in the twin car bomb attacks in the city centre's Zahra district, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Syrian state television quoted Homs provincial governor Talal Barazi as saying at least 25 people had been killed.

Zahraa neighbourhood is populated mainly by members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect

Graphic footage from pro-Assad television channels showed charred corpses buried among rubble, damage to shop fronts and debris littering a wide area. Many cars were on fire, sending out plumes of black smoke. Wounded people walked around dazed.

The Observatory said the attack was the second most deadly of its kind in Homs since 2011, and the deadliest for almost a year and a half.

Once dubbed the capital of the Syrian revolution, Homs city is now almost completely controlled by the Syrian government.

The only exception is Waer district, which is being gradually turned over to the government under a deal with opposition fighters.

Most of the bombing attacks in the city over the past months have been claimed by ISIS, which controls parts of the Homs province including the historic town of Palmyra.

Zahra neighbourhood in particular has been the main target of the extremist groups as civilian residents there are mostly Alawites, the minority sect of Syria's ruling clan - including president Bashar al-Assad.

The double blast comes a day after government forces reportedly captured 31 villages in the northern province of Aleppo from ISIS
Last month, another twin bombing in Zahra killed 22 people, mostly civilians.
The double blast comes a day after government forces reportedly captured 31 villages in the northern province of Aleppo from ISIS.
Syrian troops have been on the offensive in different parts of the country under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
The latest attacks come as US secretary of State John Kerry said that a provisional agreement had been reached with Russia on the terms of a ceasefire in the war-torn country.
Kerry told reporters in the Jordanian capital Amman that he had spoken with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov again on Sunday on the terms of a ceasefire agreed by world powers earlier this month.

yrian onlookers and security forces inspect a crater at the site of the double blast in Homs

'We have reached a provisional agreement, in principle, on the terms of the cessation of hostilities that could begin in the coming days,' Kerry said.

'It is not yet done and I anticipate that our presidents, President (Barack) Obama and President (Vladimir) Putin, may well speak somewhere in the next days or so in order to try to complete this task,' Kerry told a press conference with Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh.

Hopes for ceasefire, which had been due to take hold on Friday, had floundered as fresh violence shook Syria last week.

But Kerry was optimistic that it could still be implemented.

'We are in fact making progress even as a I stand here today,' he said. 'We are closer to a ceasefire today than we have been.'

A general view shows the site of the bomb blasts

«Politics»: Turkey Kuwait provide the names of its citizens transiting to Syria

The newspaper "politics" of Kuwait reported that Turkish security forces began to provide the names of Kuwait Kuwaiti citizens who crossed into Syrian territory by Turkish crossings or in an irregular manner, and is suspected of involvement in the fighting there.

The newspaper quoted, under the title "Turkey provides Kuwait names transients citizens to Syria," the sources familiar with the Kuwaiti security talks - Turkish, conducted by Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior of the Kuwaiti team Sulaiman Al-Fahad during the past few days with officials in the Turkish Interior, saying "there is a consensus between the two countries that the developments in the region affect the two countries directly were called to strengthen security cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism file. "

The newspaper pointed out, in a related context, that sources revealed to call the state security apparatus in Kuwait for a number of Syrian residents who received information indicating their involvement in the fighting in their country under the ranks of the opposition groups, indicating that it will be investigated to determine where they were Mnazavin under its banner and make sure not to association with any terrorist organizations.

Euro News: Kurds «Kobanî» vow to continue fighting against «Daash»

Kurdish peshmerga fighters vowed, through a video broadcast over the Internet, to continue the fight against militants Daash organization, is in the eye Arabs "Kobanî" city, located on the Syrian-Turkish border.

Network "Euro News," news European reported on Friday that the videos, which have not been confirmed yet independently, women Kurds fighting alongside men appear and show the impact of the destruction of the city and louder voices to the heavy gunfire, he says, a young Kurdish fighters' morale too high, and as long as the enemy Jihadist attack us we will continue to fight him. "

She network light on the siege imposed on Kobanî, for nearly three months, where he became its defense costs a lot, have been killed during the ongoing within the city conflict, hundreds of others were injured, and doctors are working in the most difficult conditions and innovate in the ambulance infected without possessing essential medicines and medical supplies other.

She Kobanî network, now is a heap, it is not long, the city was sheltering 10 thousand people, little remains of them, has become a constant threat to their lives. "

He says a man from Kobanî "We do not have nowhere to go nor underground bunker Nhtmi it was sending us back from the Turkish border and now live here under constant bombardment."

And carry Kobanî, strategic importance, but it has become a powerful symbol of the ongoing struggle against Muslim Sunni militants who seized control of rapidly over large areas of Iraq and Syria

Russia: International Alliance will triumph over Daash

The official Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Ukashević said, that the international coalition will not be able to achieve success in the war on al "Daash" terrorist on Syrian territory, in the absence of coordination with Damascus.

The news channel Russia Today, about Ukashević saying: "Terrorists consolidating their project in part of the territory of Syria, and the International Alliance did not solve the problems in Kobanî" he said, adding that the coalition against blows to the city of Raqqa densely populated, and it is difficult in the absence of independent sources of information to identify suffer more Daash or the civilian population, and in all cases there is no hope in achieving victory over the terrorists without expanded coordination with the Syrian government.

On the other hand, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Moscow believes that the mission is to continue to help Damascus in the face of terrorism and support efforts to achieve a diplomatic settlement of the Syrian problems, according to the principles of the Geneva statement, issued in June 2012, and through extensive dialogue without dictating external and preconditions.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the date for the meeting of representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition has not yet been determined, pointing out that the representatives of the Syrian opposition forces have different positions on the settlement of the dispute, that the more significant opposition participated in this meeting to represent the largest, the better.

Warning of a humanitarian disaster after the cessation of the World Food Program for Syrian refugees

The head of the Syrian opposition coalition Hadi lagoon, on Monday, warning of a humanitarian disaster after the World Food to 1.0007 million thousand Syrian refugees in neighboring countries stopped aid program.

He fountain in a statement in this regard, "The Declaration of the World Food Program of the United Nations that he would suspend food aid to 1.0007 million thousand Syrian refugees in neighboring countries due to lack of funding a cause of great concern, especially since a large proportion of the refugees rely heavily on the assistance they are heading the harsh winter, have disastrous effects for the winter causing immense suffering, as reported to the death of some Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the severity of the cold began. "

He noted, saying, "comments coupons distributed by the United Nations will introduce thousands of families to starve to death and will put more pressure on the host countries that drained their resources as they try to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees."

He said the coalition, which racked among its sharp disagreements in recent months that "the international community has a moral responsibility to prevent famine looming and threatening hundreds statement (tens of thousands) of refugees, and the duty to provide the necessary to continue to provide assistance through the World Food Program funds."

He noted that "the load of refugees who have fled the violence and killings in Syria, more suffering is not acceptable at all, and can not be left to fight in order to survive in such harsh conditions."

World Food Program's decision to suspend assistance to Syrian refugees big shock among Syrians on a different spectrum has the form, according to the German Press Agency (DPA).

The slaughter of 16 Iraqi soldiers at the hands of «Daash»

Slaughtered 16 people were killed, border guards in Iraq's Anbar province in an attack on them near the Syrian border, also wounded four others wounded in the attack, which was believed to be the perpetrators of the fighters of the Islamic State "Daash." According to a deputy head of the Anbar Provincial Council.

Faleh al-Issawi said deputy head of the provincial council, that the militia killed 16 border guards, including the officer in charge of the site, also injured four seriously injured, in a surprise attack in the early morning of Monday.

It is the center of the border guards who have been attacking him in the newborn crossing in Anbar, Iraq's largest province area, which connects the crossing between Iraq and Syria, and the only one who is still under the control of Iraqi forces.

France is investigating the appearance of the second of its citizens within the fighters «Daash»

Attorney General announced the French, Francois Moulin, the investigation into the appearance of the second young Frenchman named "Michael dos Santos", within the video to regulate "Daash" terrorist, between the perpetrators of the death sentences on the Syrian soldiers.

It quoted "Reuters" news agency, the Attorney General French, on Thursday, that Santos, who is 22 years old, from the city of "Hambyny-sur-Marne", near the capital, Paris, joined the ranks of the Mujahideen in Syria, during August 2013, and had no criminal record.

The mayor of his hometown, and added that his mother informed the judicial authorities and the police some time ago about the extremism of her son, and that "Michael" is known about him, his involvement with terrorist elements in Syria, and the exercise of violence.

And the opening of the French prosecutor, a preliminary investigation targets within the ranks of the French "Daash", guilty of murder by an organized gang with respect to terrorist acts, and the formation of criminal groups, initiate investigations of the General Directorate of Homeland Security.

"Reuters" and revealed that the French were involved in 1132 to go to Syria and Iraq, 376 of them are still there, including 88 women and 10 minors, and 226 in transit, and the death of 49 in war zones.

Said Sebastien Pietrasanta, in charge of the socialist anti-terror law in France: of these young people from comes from a small village like "Normandy", and some of them come from the big cities, the door is wide, and the young Michael Santos, no precedents to him, except for a misdemeanor driving without a license, and try to escape, and changed his religion to Islam, when he was 17 years old through the Internet.

It is noteworthy that the French intelligence identified "Maxime Ouchar Norman", in 2011, who paid between October 2012 and May 2013 two trips to Mauritania, to attend classes in Koranic education institutions Salafi, then returned to France, to set off them to Syria in August 2013, under the guise of work humanitarian, and then published pictures uniformed fighting through "Facebook", and called for young people to join the ranks of the Mujahideen.

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Pakistan Taliban splinter group pledges support to Islamic State

Seeing the Western world as a common enemy, extremist groups around the world continue uniting under the umbrella of the Islamic State, whose military and business successes are inspiring affiliates to pledge their allegiance to the “caliphate.”

As part of the latest additions of the support for the Islamic State, Jundallah, a Pakistani Islamist militant group associated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), vowed allegiance to ISIS after a meeting with a three-man delegation from the group.

“They (Islamic State) are our brothers, whatever plan they have we will support them,” Jundullah spokesman Fahad Marwat told Reuters.

Last month five Pakistani Taliban commanders pledged their support for ISIS cause. Reuters reports citing security officials on the ground that IS is also seeking the support of Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).

“The top leadership of LeJ visited Saudi Arabia and met Islamic State leaders at an undisclosed location at the Saudi-Iraq border,” one militant told Reuters, clarifying that the meeting took place more than a year ago.

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At the same time, Pakistan’s extremist supporters are split on whether or not to back Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked leader Mullah Omar or ISIS that has broken away from al-Qaeda in February.

“All anti-Shi'ite groups in Pakistan will welcome and support IS in Pakistan, though most of them will not announce it openly due to their allegiance to Mullah Omar,” one official told the agency.

Hundreds of Pakistani militants are believed to have joined the ranks of IS in Iraq and Syria, after in June the Islamic State proclaimed a caliphate under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

In July 2014, Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau declared support for the new caliphate and al-Baghdadi. From there, the support for IS's cause began to grow, even Muslim militant guerrillas, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines have pledged their support to the Islamic State organization.

And as their support grows, so is IS’ territorial ambitions. Last week, al-Baghdadi released an audio-recording in which he announced “the expansion of the Islamic State to new countries, to the countries of the Haramayn [Saudi Arabia], Yemen, Egypt, Libya [and] Algeria.”

READ MORE: ISIS has 200,000-strong force, says Kurdish leader

Earlier this week a senior Iraqi Kurdish leader told the UK Independent that ISIS/ISIL militants have an army of about 200,000 fighters, over six times larger than previous CIA estimates. In September, the CIA said ISIS numbers which the agency calculated at the movement numbered between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters.

“I am talking about hundreds of thousands of fighters because they are able to mobilize young Arab men in the territory they have taken,” Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said claiming that the territory under IS control is roughly the size of the UK.

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Australian teen ISIS adherent vows to fight US, UK until black flags fly over Buckingham Palace, White House

An Australian teenager has appeared in a video saying the Islamic State will keep fighting until there is an Islamic Caliphate established in Britain and the United States.

A new Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) propaganda video purportedly shows Australian teen Abdullah Elmir standing in front of dozens of IS fighters, brandishing weapons and warning the UK and US that the militants will not give up.

“To the leaders, to [US President] Obama, to [Australian PM] Tony Abbott I say this: these weapons that we have, these soldiers, we will not stop fighting, we will not put down our weapons until we reach your lands, until we take the head of every tyrant, and until the black flag is flying high in every single land,” says Elmir.

"Until we put the black flag on top of Buckingham Palace, until we put the black flag on top of the White House, we will not stop, and we will keep on fighting,” he adds.

The video is the most recent entry in the ‘Message from Mujahid’ propaganda series released by IS.

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Elmir is just 17 years old and comes from Australia. Telling his parents that he was going on a fishing trip, he left the country in June. He was accompanied by a 16-year-old boy, who flew with him to Turkey and then crossed the border into Syria to join IS, according to ABC News. The younger boy’s father intercepted them and took him back to Sydney.

Would-be jihadist Elmir may have been “brainwashed,” a family member told the Daily Telegraph. “I don’t know what these kids get into,” the unnamed relative said. “They don’t know how to fight … they should be getting an education and building this country up.”

Elmir is by no means alone as young IS sympathizer. Three American teenage girls from a Denver suburb stole $2,000 from their parents, skipped school on Friday and flew to Germany. The parents reported the girls missing when the school called to say one of the girls had failed to turn up at her class.

Authorities think the three might have been trying to join Islamic State fighters in Syria. They were arrested at Frankfurt Airport over the weekend by the FBI and returned to Colorado to be reunited with their parents, FBI spokeswoman Suzi Payne told the Associated Press.

Read More: Pregnant Austrian teen who ran off to join ISIS says she 'made a mistake'

A US official said the girls – two sisters, ages 17 and 15, and a 16-year-old friend – were headed toward Turkey en route to Syria. Investigators were reviewing evidence, including the girls’ computers, in the hope that they would discover whether there were “like-minded” friends in their social circle, and whether they had any contacts in Syria.

The US Attorney’s Office in Denver declined to comment on the case, and it is unclear whether the girls will face charges, according to the AP.

Read More: Dutch ISIS sympathizing schoolboy suspended for wanting to 'decapitate Jews'

Another Colorado teen, Shannon Conley, pleaded guilty to charges a month ago that she conspired to help militants in Syria. Conley was arrested in April as she boarded a flight she thought would take her to the Middle East. She told agents she wanted to marry a suitor she met online who said he was a Tunisian man fighting with IS in Syria. If Conley is found guilty, she could face five years in federal prison, and a fine of $250,000.

Lavrov meets Syrian opposition leader in Moscow

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'Opposition behind Damascus blast, lays ground for intervention' 6/1/2012

A deadly explosion targeting police has rocked a residential neighborhood in Damascus, killing up to 25 people. It's believed to have been a suicide bombing, with most of the casualties civilians. Syrian TV says the blast happened near a primary school. It comes as the leader of the country's biggest armed opposition group has reportedly called for President Assad's regime to be overthrown by military means. Meanwhile a former high-ranking army official who defected to the opposition has claimed the government was lying when it said the violence was caused by gangs aided from abroad. Author and Middle East expert Tariq Ali believes the opposition is responsible for the attack and they're laying the ground for a foreign intervention.

Raw Video: Mourners Protest Syrian Government 3/1/2012

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Syria on the brink of religious clashes

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Moscow to send envoy to Syria

Moscow to send envoy to Syria



Bashar al-Assad has been slammed for using his army to attack anti-government protesters in Syria. Today Russia announced a diplomatic initiative to try to put an end to the violence. Vitaly Churkin, Russian ambassador to the United Nations, gives more details on the proposed resolution.