london: British drones deployed to counter Islamic State jehadis in Iraq will also be used for surveillance over Syria to gather intelligence as part of efforts to protect national security from the terrorist threat emanating from there, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond had announced last week that unmanned Reaper drones were being re-deployed from Afghanistan to the Middle East.
Pak Taliban fires spokesman over allegiance to ISIS
Islamabad: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has fired its spokesman after he along with five other commanders declared allegiance to the Islamic State terror group, which has been vying for supremacy with the al-Qaeda in the region. Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid last week said that he along with five other Taliban commanders have accepted the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, chief of the Islamic State which has seized hundreds of square miles in Iraq and Syria.
Iran prez pledges to back Iraq amid attacks
Tehran: Shia powerhouse Iran has pledged enduring support for the Shia-led Government of Iraq in its battle against an ascendant Sunni insurgency spearheaded by the Islamic State group.
ISIS seizes weapons airdropped for Kurds
Damascus: The Islamic State militants captured one of the weapons shipments airdropped by the US to the Kurdish fighters of the People Protection Units (YPG) in the city of Kobane in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Tuesday.