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Syria/Iraq News - Aug 26, 2014

By bartolo - Posted on 25 August 2014

Syria Welcomes U.S. Strikes Against ISIS There, With Conditions - CBS News

VIDEO (English): Syria will help US fight terrorism, says Walid Muallem - BBC

VIDEO (Arabic): Walid Muallem statement: Syria will cooperate in fighting IS - YouTube

U.S. prepares military options in Syria against Islamic State - Reuters

Report: Pentagon to conduct surveillance flights over Syria - TheHill

US Gives Intelligence To Assad For Targetting IS Commanders Through the German Intelligence Service - ibtimes.co.uk

The Free Syrian Army is not impressed with Obama’s threat to attack IS inside Syria, says it is too little, too late - The Daily Beast

Would arming Syria’s rebels have stopped the Islamic State? - The Washington Post

U.S. Flew 1,500 Air Sorties in Iraq Against Islamic State - Businessweek

State Department wants more troops to protect diplomatic sites in Iraq - Stripes

Obama Could Seek New Funds To Battle Islamic State: Senate Aide - Reuters

Islamic State goes from 'junior varsity' to all pro in 8 months, Admiral Kirby says - Threat Matrix

IS will 'soon' pose threat to US: top general - News24

FBI warns police to be on lookout for IS threats in US - Mail Online

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Islamic State Captures Syria’s Tabqa Air Base (VIDEO) - VICE News

Assad regime confirms IS has taken 'full control' of Tabqa military airport, Syrian army units fled - World Tribune

Islamic State might have taken advanced MANPADS from Syrian airfield - The Washington Post

The Islamic State resets balance with spoils of Tabqa airbase - bellingcat

Islamic State video appears to show IS' use of a drone, detailed maps and photos to plan the attacks on the Tabqa air base (VIDEO) - vocativ.com

The capture of the Tabqa airport gives IS freedom of movement and allows it to secure supply routes between Mosul and Raqqa - Al-Monitor

Statement of the opposition Syrian Coalition on the IS’ takeover of the Tabqa Air Base - Inner City Press

IS Surges Towards the Borders of Turkey As West Mulls Options - The Guardian

An obvious first step – close the jihadis' highway, The best way to stop UK fighters reaching IS is to catch them at Turkey's border with Syria - The Independent

Finding an ISIS Training Camp (PHOTOS) - bellingcat

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How IS is funded, trained and operating in Iraq and Syria - Telegraph

Deep Pockets, Dark Goals: How Will IS Keep Funding Terror? - NBC News

Oil makes Islamic State the ‘wealthiest’ terror group - afr.com

IS uses oil profits to fund its criminal plan: observers - Al-Shorfa

IS: Having spent billions, the Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia and Qatar find they have created a monster - The Independent

ISIS Atrocities Started With Saudi Support for Salafi Hate - NYTimes.com

Gen. Wesley Clark: Saudis, Qatar Created ISIS Threat - Newsmax

Qatar Denies Funding Extremist Islamic State Group - Qatar Daily Star

POLL: 92% of Saudis believe that Islamic State “conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law” - Jihad Watch

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Kurdish Peshmerga recapture oil, farming center from IS in wake of airstrikes - Stripes

VIDEO: Kurds make gains against Islamic State in northern Iraq - BBC News

Islamic State militants driven from a Christian town by Kurdish Peshmerga wired the town with explosives - Fox News

Kurds fight ISIS to a standstill, but say they lack modern weapons - TribLIVE

Kurdish Forces Say They're Waiting For U.S. Weapons - NPR

Kurdish Commander Says Baghdad Blocking Foreign Arms to Peshmerga - Rudaw

VIDEO: What Kurdish forces lack in fight against Islamic State - PBS

VIDEO: Kurdish Peshmergas warn jihadist group IS now well-equipped - The Tennessean

Halabja Kurdish Residents Fight the IS on Many Fronts - Rudaw

Peshmerga foils an attack of Islamic State (IS) on Tuz district - arabtoday

Syrian Kurd YPG intensifies offensive against IS militants, killing dozens - ARA News

YPG: 48 ISIS members killed in Jazaa - ANF

Terrorist or ally? A Kurdish PKK militia joins the fight against the Islamic State - The Christian Science Monitor

Meet the PKK 'Terrorists' Battling the Islamic State on the Frontlines of Iraq - VICE News

KRG, PKK make unlikely allies as they battle IS together - Al-Monitor

Germany to arm Kurds against Islamic State in test of stronger global role - CSMonitor.com

Merkel rules out arming terrorist PKK while sending arms to KRG - todayszaman.com

Analysis: Could support for the 'other' Kurds stall Islamic State? - BBC News

Iraq: on the frontline with the Shia fighters taking the war to IS - The Guardian

Islamic State Took Over a Prison and Shot the Shiite Prisoners, U.N. Says - Newsweek

Besieged Iraqi town of Amerli desperately needs U.S. help - The Washington Post

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