article_snippet: An ISIS fighter speaks in a video released by ISIS, using a derogatory term for Shiites and calling Shiites 'impure infidels.'
article_snippet: An ISIS fighter adds that the current military campaign against ISIS will only make the militant group stronger. '
article_snippet: Our swords will soon, God willing, reach the Nuseiries and Our swords allies like Bashar and Bashar party,' Bashar said referring to Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group that is fighting on Bashar side.
article_snippet: The word Nuseiry is a derogatory term to refer to Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
article_snippet: The attacks come amid fears that the government is preparing to retake the city that the government lost on Saturday.
article_snippet: Idlib, with a population of around 165,000 people, became the second provincial capital to fall to the opposition after Raqqa, which is now a stronghold of the Islamic State group.
article_snippet: the Islamic State group capture by several factions led by the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front underscores the growing power of extremist groups in Syria, which now control about half the country.
article_snippet: Yesterday Canadian legislators voted to back the government's plans to bomb ISIS positions in Syria, a move that opposition parties say threatens to drag Canada into a long war.
article_snippet: Canada has around 70 special forces troops in northern Iraq and six Canadian jets are taking part in U.S.-led bombing attacks against Islamic State in Iraq.