Konflikten i Syrien

The US military told Al Jazeera in an email that it conducted four strikes in Deir ez-Zor on Sunday - "all against oil well heads" - and 55km away from the town of Ayyash.

"We did not strike any vehicles or personnel targets in this area. We have no indication any Syrian soldiers were even near our strikes," the US military said. " We take all allegations of potential collateral damage seriously and will look into every allegation we receive."

The face of a beautiful woman is staring out of the timelines of many Syrian Facebook users this week. It's a young woman, named as Inana Shlash, whose picture has been posted many times on social media.
According to reports, she died a fortnight after a Russian air strike on her home in Saraqeb in northwest Idlib province which also killed her mother. As well as family pictures and video of her singing with her father, Syrians are also sharing pictures purporting to show her body, covered in a blanket.

ISIS smuggles majority of oil through Turkey, says Iraqi PM amid ‘sovereignty violation’ rift

Amid a discord in relations over a serious violation of Iraq’s sovereignty by Turkey’s deployment of ground troops, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi accused its neighbor of being a hub for the “majority” of illegal oil smuggling operations by ISIS terrorists.

During a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Abadi stressed the importance of stopping oil smuggling from jihadi-controlled parts of Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi prime minister also called for international support to help his country fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)
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Meanwhile Turkey, which is part of the US-led anti ISIS coalition, continues to take single-handed actions in the region. On Thursday it deployed over a hundred military personnel equipped with tanks and artillery to Iraq, next to the IS-controlled city of Mosul.
Baghdad has called the move a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, while Turkey continues to insist that the troops are there as part of an international mission to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight against Islamic State.

However in a meeting with German FM, Abadi once again made it clear that the entry of Turkish troops into Iraqi territory is “unacceptable” and happened “without the knowledge or consent of the Iraqi government.”

On Sunday, Baghdad gave Ankara 48 hours to pull out its forces from Iraq.
“In case we have not received any positive signs before the deadline we set for the Turkish side, then we maintain our legal right to file a complaint to the Security Council to stop this serious violation to Iraqi sovereignty,” Iraqi government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said Monday adding that Iraq is still waiting for Turkey to respond officially.

The first known order, placed in September 2004, was for some 60,000 rifles, each delivered complete with four magazines, a bayonet, cleaning kit, sling, and oil bottle. But by the time the Libyan civil war broke out in 2011, more than 200,000 of these modern Russian AK-103-2 rifles were present in the country.

In late 2003 or early 2004 - soon after the UN arms embargo was lifted - Libya had begun negotiations to buy a range of arms and munitions, including anti-tank guided weapons and man-portable air defence systems (Manpads). One of these deals included the AK-103-2 self-loading rifles.