U.S.-led Coalition air strikes more precise than Russia's: coalition spox
A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against IS in Syria and Iraq has said that coalition air strikes are more precise than those carried out by Russia.
The spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against IS, U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren, has mentioned a report by the UN that says Russian and Syrian government air strikes have destroyed two hospitals in Aleppo.
Georgia's Foreign Minister Tina Khidasheli tweets that Georgia was informed that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov planned to make a statement about Pankisi, and that's why Tbilisi invited media representatives to visit the gorge.
Riad Hijab, chief coordinator of the Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), paid a visit today to the UK parliament.
Hijab met with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond who tweeted that he had agreed with Hijab that political transition away from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was "vital for Syria."
Hijab said that the Syrian opposition wanted a secular future for all Syrians with a parliamentary system.
Syrian opposition calls for end to sieges and air strikes if talks to be resumed
The Syrian opposition has called for an end to sieges on civilian areas of Syria and to air strikes on civilians if peace talks are to be resumed on Feb. 25.
"Before we go on February 25 those measures should be implemented in reality on the land," Riad Hijab, chief coordinator of the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), told reporters in London this afternoon.
Hijab, who spoke after a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, added that the opposition wants aid to be let through to civilians.
The Telegraph's Louisa Loveluck has spoken with Syrian refugees and aid workers at the Kilis border crossing in Turkey, where people have fled fighting in Syria's Aleppo province.
British man jailed after going to Syria to fight alongside IS
A 29-year-old British man has been jailed for seven years after traveling to Syria to fight alongside the IS group.
Mohammed Uddin traveled to Syria in November 2014 with the intention of joining IS and fighting alongside the extremist group, a South East Counter Terrorism spokesman said.
Uddin crossed back into Turkey just over a month later, in December 2014, but was arrested in Gaziantep.
Tara Nettleton, widow of notorious Australian IS militant, dies in Syria
Tara Nettleton, the widow of Australian IS militant Khaled Sharrouf, has died in Syria, the Australian press is reporting.
Nettleton, also an Australian, is thought to have died some time ago from complications from appendicitis, after she was not able to access life-saving health services.
She is thought to have been living in IS's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa with her four children and one grandchild.
Nettleton's husband Sharrouf is believed to have died last year. Initial reports said that he was killed in an air strike in June, but later evidence suggested he was killed some time later in July.
Sharrouf became notorious after he tweeted a photo of his son holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier.
It is believed that Sharrouf married Tara's eldest daughter Zaynab to an IS militant Mohammed Elomar, who was killed in June.
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