IS downs warplane over Syria, claims capture of Jordan pilot
The IS branch in Raqa published photographs on jihadist websites purporting to show its fighters holding the captured pilot, with a caption identifying him as Jordanian.
Kerry in Iraq backs government, to build support against Islamic State
Kerry said he was impressed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's plans to rebuild the Iraqi military and push broad political reforms.
Over 400 killed in 10-day air blitz of Syria's Aleppo: NGO
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that by Tuesday night the toll since December 15 from air strikes and a bombing campaign using barrels packed with TNT stood at 410. Also among the dead were 34 women, 30 rebel fighters and nine jihadists
Syria rebels reject opposition coalition, call for Islamic leadership
Thousands of Syrian rebels have broken with the Western-backed coalition and called for a new Islamist front
Opposition says as many as 1,300 killed in gas attack near Damascus
Western and regional countries called for U.N. chemical weapons investigators - who arrived in Damascus just three days ago - to be urgently dispatched to the scene of one of the deadliest incidents of the two-year-old civil war