OPINION by Jamal Doumani – Visit, as I did recently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (The Met, to New Yorkers), the largest art museum in the US and one of the 10 largest in the world. Seek out its permanent collection of Islamic art, a trove of[…]
Syrian state media said the country’s air defenses shot down a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft Tuesday in a northwestern province along the Mediterranean coast. A U.S. official said a U.S. Predator drone went down in Syria, but it’s not clear whether it was shot down. The official, who spoke on condition[…]
At least 19 people were killed in several villages and towns in northwestern Syria after government forces launched barrel and gas attacks, activists and monitoring groups said. Three children, their mother and father, and their grandmother suffocated to death after the barrel bomb attack in the town of Sarmin in[…]
Bashar al-Assad has replied to John Kerry’s remarks that Syria should be included in negotiations to reach a political transition, saying his government will decide on the issue after seeing “actions”. The Syrian president was responding to comments by the US secretary of state during an Sunday interview to American[…]
British police have released three teens on bail after their arrest for trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. The families of the boys – two 17-year-olds and one 19-year-old – alerted authorities when the teens failed to return from Friday prayers. Police alerted Turkish authorities,[…]
Turkey’s foreign minister says authorities have detained 16 Indonesians who were trying to cross the border into Syria to join the Islamic State group. Mevlut Cavusoglu also said Friday that police were looking for another group of 16 Indonesians reported missing in Turkey. Cavusoglu was speaking a day after he[…]
The Islamic State (IS) have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, a spokesman for the Islamic State movement said Thursday. The development comes as both movements, which are among the most ruthless in the world, are under increasing military pressure. Islamic State seized much[…]
OPINION by Jan Egeland- Last year three UN Security Council resolutions were passed aiming to protect and assist civilians in Syria. But, a year after the first resolution was passed, the words ring hollow. In a report being released today, my organisation, Norwegian Refugee Council, along with several other organisations,[…]
More than 20 international aid organisations have sharply criticised the United Nations Security Council, saying it has failed to implement three resolutions passed last year seeking to boost humanitarian assistance to Syrian civilians. The 21 aid groups say the resolutions have been “ignored or undermined by the parties to the[…]
A group of 21 international aid agencies criticised the UN Security Council for failing to implement its resolutions aimed at improving the humanitarian situation in Syria, calling 2014 “the worst year” of the crisis, a report said Thursday. The report found that despite three resolutions adopted by the council in[…]
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