Reports in the Arab media that an Israeli Beduin man had been killed while fighting with the Islamic State (IS, formally ISIS) terror militia in Iraq were confirmed on Sunday by Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, where he was employed as a physician. The man, identified as Dr. Othman Abdal-Kian, is the second Israeli citizen in less than a month to have been confirmed as being killed while fighting with IS, although several others are suspected of having joined the group. Elsewhere, the UN Security Council passed a motion on Friday encouraging members to step up efforts to confront IS, saying it must be defeated and…the intolerance, violence and hatred it espouses must be stamped out.” Meanwhile, the US-led air campaign against IS included drops of weapons and supplies to Kurdish fighters in the besieged city of Kobani on the Turkish-Syrian border Sunday. Read More
