02/03/2015

"Islamic State" has released a group of Assyrian Christians kidnapped by its militants late last month. Meanwhile, rebels in the northern city of Aleppo rejected a peace proposal by the UN's envoy to the country. Assyrian Christians…

The Daily Star   BEIRUT: ISIS militants freed 19 of the 220 Assyrian Christians they took hostage in Syria last week, after a ransom was paid for their release, activists said. “Nineteen Assyrian hostages arrived Sunday at the…

Nineteen of an estimated 220 members of an Assyrian Christian community kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) in north-eastern Syria have been released, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said an Assyrian…

BEIRUT – Islamic State group jihadis on Sunday freed 19 of the 220 Assyrian Christians they took hostage in Syria last week, after a ransom was paid for their release, activists said. “Nineteen Assyrian hostages arrived on Sunday at the…

BEIRUT, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon's Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said Sunday that Assyrian Christians fleeing the Islamic State (IS) are welcome to take refuge in Lebanon because their humanitarian case is exceptional. In an…

ISTANBUL: Security footage appears to show three British schoolgirls, believed to be on their way to join Islamic State militants, waiting for hours at a bus station in Turkey before traveling to a city near the Syrian border, media…

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group released at least 19 Christians on Sunday who were among the more than 220 people the militants took captive in northeastern Syria last week, activists and a local leader said. The news provided a…

CNN) — ISIS militants in northern Syria released at least 20 Assyrian Christian hostages on Sunday, according to Rami Abdelrahman, the chief of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abdelrahman has a network of activists…

One of the last moderate Syrian rebel groups trusted by Washington is waving the white flag—and picking up the Islamists’ black one. The Syrian rebel group Harakat al-Hazm, one of the White House’s most trusted militias fighting President…

(CNN)- ISIS militants in northern Syria released 19 Assyrian Christian hostages on Sunday, according to Rami Abdelrahman, the chief of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abdelrahman has a network of activists on…