25/02/2015

Islamic State militants abduct at least 70 Christian villagers in northeastern Syria. BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have abducted at least 70 Christians, including women and children, after overrunning a string of…

slamic State (IS) has abducted dozens of Assyrian Christians from villages in north-eastern Syria, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 90 men, women and children were seized in a series of dawn…

Deir Ezzor Province: The regime forces shelled areas in the villages of Mrat in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.   At least 5 IS militants, including 2 Syrians, died in clashes with the regime forces in the vicinity of Deir…

Damascus Province: Clashes erupted between fighters of rebel and Islamic battalions against the regime forces on the outskirts of al- Yarmuk Camp.   The regime forces opened fire on al- Madneyyi area in the south of Damascus and…

Daraa Province: The regime forces shelled Tal Antar area by mortar and tank shells. They also shelled areas in the towns of Jasem, Ibtaa, al- Yadodah, Da’el, al- Sheikh Meskin, the Eastern Kark, city of Inkhel and village of al- Wardat in…

New Zealand will send troops to Iraq on a non-combat mission helping to boost the local military’s capacity to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday, according to Agence France-Presse.…

A cross-party group of French lawmakers held talks with Syrian officials in Damascus on Tuesday, the first such contacts in the Syrian capital since the closure of France’s embassy there in 2012. However, the French Foreign Ministry made…

It is no ordinary event for 26 countries' representatives to be meeting to discuss how best to confront the challenge of ISIS. What the so-called "Islamic State," or ISIS, or ISIL represents differs from one person to the next. To people…

Turkey has accused Britain of a "reprehensible" delay in informing the Turkish authorities over the departure to its territory of three teenage British girls feared to be on their way to join the jihad in Syria. The three girls, aged…

Spain dissolved an online network meant to recruit young women to join Daesh and arrested four suspects, officials told AFP on Tuesday. European countries have been cracking down on Daesh recruiting efforts as a wave of foreign…