ISIS downs another Iraqi helicopter
Baghdad: Officials in Baghdad say that militants with the Islamic State group have downed an Iraqi military helicopter near the refinery town of Beiji, killing the two pilots on board. A military aviation official says the militants used a shoulder-fired missile to take down the Bell 407 helicopter north of Beiji on Wednesday.
Canada votes to join airstrikes against Is
Ottawa (Canada): Canadian lawmakers have voted to join the international coalition launching air strikes on the Islamic State group in Iraq.
Parliamentarians led by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper carried the vote, 157 to 134, in favor of the six-month mission. Six hundred air crew and other personnel, along with six fighter jets and several other military aircraft, will now head to the Middle East.
UK arrests linked to ISIS terror plot
london: Scotland Yard has thwarted an Islamic State (IS) driven “significant” terror plot with the arrest of four men here on suspicion of terror offences as part of an investigation into Islamist-related terrorism.
At least one of the members of the group, suspected of plotting an attack on the streets of london, had travelled to Syria and has alleged links to IS, it has emerged.
14 dead in protests over fall of Kobane
Ankara: At least 14 people have been killed in clashes between police and Kurdish protesters in Turkey, according to media reports. The protesters are aggrieved at Turkish inaction in defending the town of Kobane in Syria from an attack of the Islamic State (IS) militants.