France to live under state of emergency for three months
One week after a series of terrorist attacks in Paris, officials in France have extended a state of emergency in the country for three months. The death toll rose to 130 when one the...
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Refugees fleeing ISIS-perpetrated violence brace for blame and backlash after Paris attacks
Parisians woke up Monday morning under a state of emergency, imposed in the wake of a wave of terrorist attacks in the city on Friday. Many in the country are shocked by events that...
Turkey-PKK hostilities continue to complicate multi-sided regional conflict
Tension between Turkish nationalists and Kurds has exploded in recent days to the point that the leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party warns of civil war. The escalation follows the collapse of a ceasefire...
Weekend rallies across Turkey support Kurdish militias in Kobane fight against ISIS
In Turkey, thousands marched during the weekend in solidarity with the besieged Syrian city of Kobane. This comes after Ankara – under pressure at home and abroad – allowed heavily-armed Kurdish forces from Iraq...
Q&A: After attacks, Canada’s PM calls for new security and surveillance powers
Parliamentarians in Canada held a moment of silence Thursday in honor of the guard killed in an attack at Ottawa’s war memorial the day before. The gunman later stormed Parliament where the Sergeant-at-Arms shot...
Tenuous peace between Turkish Kurds and Ankara nears a breaking point
A Kurdish militia commander in the town of Kobane claims they are pushing the so-called Islamic State out of the Syrian town on three fronts. In recent days U.S.-led air strikes have hit ISIS...
Turkey approves possibility of military action against “terrorist threats”
In Syria, the civil war that’s raged for more than three years continues on multiple fronts. In the western city of Homs, as many as 41 elementary school children died Wednesday when two explosions...
Turkish authorities block Kurds from crossing into Syria to fight against ISIS
In Syria, fighting continues to rage between the Islamic State and Kurdish militias over a key Kurdish city near the Turkish border. But on the Turkish side of the border, anger is boiling due...
FSRN Weekly Edition – September 26, 2014
Download Audio U.S.-led coalition continue airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria Three days of climate-related activities in New York end with promises For Jordan’s Trash Pickers, Work Isn’t What it Used to Be U.S....
Protests against military action in Syria and Iraq scattered and sparse
Protests against the U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria targeting the group that calls itself the Islamic State have been small-scale since the offensive began this week. Despite a call to action on Monday, events were...
