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  US slams IS with 25 new air strikes in Iraq, Syria

  World | October 19, 2014 9:55 IST

  Washington: US war planes struck more than two dozen times in Syria and Iraq, hitting Islamic State jihadists and oil infrastructure they control, the American military said.Of 15 air strikes in Syria, 12 were aimed

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  Jihadists seize Kurdish headquarters in Kobane, massacre feared

  World | October 11, 2014 13:44 IST

  Suruc: Islamic State jihadists have captured the headquarters of Kurdish fighters defending the Syrian border town of Kobane, with a UN envoy warning thousands would likely be massacred if it falls to them.Outgunned Kurdish militia