The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has reportedly executed at least 91 people across Syria within a period of one month, including 39 people from its own ranks. The executions were carried out over accusations of sorcery, sodomy, adultery, banditry, joining and cooperating with rival rebel[…]
With much of the world focusing on the Islamic State (IS) and its offensive on Kobane, very little is known about the Kurdish people, who call the Syrian-Turkish border town home. The Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East and Central Asia. The Kurdish question is a term[…]
Turkey and the United States will soon launch “comprehensive” air operations to flush Islamic State fighters from a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Reuters on Monday. Detailed talks between Washington and Ankara on the plans were completed on Sunday, and regional allies including Saudi[…]
Seven young Australian men have been arrested by authorities after they attempted to board flights to the Middle East, according to the Australian prime minister. Tony Abbott said on Thursday the arrests were “over suspicions they wanted to join militant Islamist groups”. “We have stopped at the airport seven young[…]
A car bomb exploded outside an Ismaili mosque in an eastern district of the Yemen’s war-damaged capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing nin people and wounding seven, a security source said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Al Faydh Alhatemy mosque in the Nuqum district, describing[…]
OPINION by Ramzy Baroud – As much of the Middle East sinks deeper into division between competing political camps, the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (‘IS’) continues its unhindered march towards a twisted version of a Muslim caliphate. Many thousands have lost their lives, some in the most torturous ways, so that[…]
NATO gave Turkey its full political support in fighting militants in Syria and Iraq at an emergency meeting on Tuesday but several nations urged Ankara not to undermine the Kurdish peace process by using excessive military force. Following a 90-minute meeting in Brussels, Turkey won the backing it sought for[…]
Turkey has said areas in north Syria cleared of fighters belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group will be turned into safe zones. Saturday’s announcement made by Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, came after Ankara announced it had begun bombing ISIL positions in Syria[…]
At least 30 people were killed and nearly 100 injured on Monday in a suicide attack in the Turkish town of Suruc near the border with Syria, officials said. The explosion appears to have been aimed at a press conference held for a group of 300 members of the Federation of[…]
At least 27 people have been killed and 100 wounded in an explosion at a cultural centre in the southeastern town of Suruc near Turkey’s border with Syria, according to the Turkish interior ministry. Officials said three government ministers were on their way to the scene of Monday’s blast, which[…]
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