26/02/2015

Kurdish and Christian militiamen battled Islamic State militants Wednesday in northeastern Syria, where the extremist group abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages, according to activists. Hassakeh province, which…

(Reuters) - An Australian man who joined Syria Kurdish militants to fight against Islamic State jihadists has been killed, a group which tracks the conflict and a Kurdish source said on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

There are fears that more members of an Assyrian Christian community in north-eastern Syria were abducted by Islamic State militants than at first thought. Initial reports had put the number of missing at 90, but one activist said as many…

Amnesty International's annual report has condemned the international response to the world's humanitarian disasters. 2014 also saw the highest number of displaced people in 70 years. Amnesty International released its annual…

The United States has condemned the abduction by the Islamic State group of dozens of Assyrian Christians in Syria and demanded their immediate release. It was the first mass kidnapping of Christians in the war-torn country. The…

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday. A Syrian Christian group representing several NGOs…

An Australian who travelled to Syria to join Kurds battling jihadists has been killed, a monitor said Wednesday, adding he was the first Westerner to die fighting alongside the Kurds. “An Australian man was killed in an assault on…

An Australian has reportedly been killed in northern Syria after joining Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State militia. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an Australian was killed on Tuesday when Islamic…

BEIRUT -- Fierce fighting between Kurdish and Christian militiamen and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants is continuing in northeastern Syria where the extremist group recently abducted at least 70 Christians. Hassakeh…

An Australian man has reportedly become the first foreigner to die alongside Kurdish militants fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremists in Syria. The 28-year-old man, who had assumed the Kurdish nomme de…