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But Prime Minister Tony Abbott says while the legalities of helping with air strikes over Syria are different to Iraq, where the government invited Australia to fight, the moralities are exactly the same.

Sulfur mustard is a Class 1 chemical agent, which means it has few uses outside chemical warfare. Gen. Kevin J. Killea, chief of staff, Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.

Canberra – using six F/A18 combat jets and two support aircraft based in the United Arab Emirates – joined the raids in Iraq but not the strikes on targets in Syria, citing legal concerns.

The U.S. on Wednesday launched its first airstrikes by Turkey-based F-16 fighter jets against Islamic State targets in Syria, marking a limited escalation of a yearlong air campaign that critics have called excessively cautious.

ISIL’s leader, al-Baghdadi, has himself had several brushes with death. Just last month, a senior leader was killed by a drone strike in Syria.

The Abbott government will spend at least a week considering whether Australia should join the fight against Islamic State in Syria.

The response from Washington came with Mark Toner from the US State Department emphasizing “We’ve been pretty clear from the podium and elsewhere saying there’s no zone, no safe haven-we’re not talking about that here. What our minister pointed out is that...

On Monday, the UN’s humanitarian chief fiercely condemned attacks against civilians in Syria at a press conference in Damascus.

Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said Asaad’s family had informed him that the scholar, who had been held for over month, was beheaded in Palmyra on Tuesday, according to the Guardian.

“I describe Baghdadi as a shepherd, and his deputies are the dogs who herd the sheep”, said Hisham al-Hashimi, a security analyst who studied Isil’s leadership structure. He was a member of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor group to the Islamic State.

Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, aka Haji Mutazz, is the deputy leader behind Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

A senior US military officer says preliminary tests show traces of the chemical agent sulfur mustard on mortars that Islamic State militants used to attack Kurdish forces in Iraq.

The Turkish government has censured the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for airing a report on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), saying the news organization is “overtly” supporting “terrorism”. Instead of allowing the Republican...

Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is scheduled to visit Russian Federation by the end of this year, an indication that the relations between the countries are improving drastically. The opposition insists that his removal is fundamental to a peace deal. And that is...

The terrorist group controls around one-third of both Syria and Iraq and established self-claimed Caliphate in Raqqa.