February 2015

ISLAMIC State militants attacked and seized a string of Assyrian Christian villages in northeast Syria, kidnapping dozens of men, women and children, according to human-rights groups and local residents. The group raised its black…

(CNN)Assyrians in northeastern Syria villages awoke Tuesday to ISIS militants at their doors, with the Islamist extremists abducting scores from the Christian group and forcing hundreds more to run for their lives, an advocate said.…

BY SAMI K. MARTIN , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER February 24, 2015|7:34 am (PHOTO: REUTERS/OSMAN ORSAL)Fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) patrol in the streets of the northern Syrian town of Kobani January 28, 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…