Mass killings, systematic rape and enslavement have become the calling cards of the Sunni extremist group Islamic State in the parts of Iraq it now controls, the top UN human rights official said Monday. The group is committing “horrific” human rights abuses every day, Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner[…]
An Egyptian lawyer charged in the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa is trying to distance himself from other acts of terrorism even as British investigators reportedly look at his son in the killing of an American journalist. Abdel Abdul Bary’s lawyers say in order for him to receive a fair trial[…]
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said that his country is ready to work with the international community to battle against “terrorists” within the framework of a recent UN resolution. In a news conference in Damascus on Monday, he also warned that Syria must be involved in co-ordinating any air[…]
Fighters from the Islamic State group have taken over an airbase in northeast Syria, capturing it from government forces after fighting that cost more than 500 lives, a monitoring group and state media have said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a London-based rights group, said at least 346[…]
Living conditions remain devastating in refugee camps housing thousands of Syrian refugees. Darul Islamic Relief Fund (DARF) chairperson Sheikh Irfaan Abrahams returned from a mission to refugee camps along the Syria-Jordan border on Thursday, and expressed the dire need for basic essentials. These include adequate medical aid, blankets and food.[…]
Friends, relatives and colleagues have paid tribute to American journalist James Foley, executed by Islamic State fighters, with his parents praising their “fearless” son. Condolences and shocked messages poured in after the group released a video of Foley’s beheading late Tuesday, including from French journalists who revealed they had been held[…]
As global Muslim leaders continue to rebuke the actions of the Islamic State (IS), the Jamiatul Ulama South Africa has added its voice in condemning the reported acts of brutality and mass murders of the people of Iraq and Syria. The IS, or ISIS as they were formally known, is[…]
A delegation of South African ulema are currently making their rounds through refugee camps in Syria as thousands are fleeing their homes to find safety from the war. Working alongside Turkish Humanitarian organisation, IHH, the director of Darul Islam Relief Fund (DARF), Sheikh Irfaan Abrahams and Sheikh Igsaan Solomons from[…]
Washington and Damascus are “not on the same page” in the fight against their common enemy the Islamic State, whose rebels have declared a “caliphate” straddling swathes of Iraq and Syria, US officials said Monday. The United States has been battling IS insurgents just over the Syrian border in Iraq[…]
Syrian government warplanes pounded an Islamic State group stronghold as well as other towns controlled by the rebels, conducting a wave of airstrikes Sunday that killed at least 11 people, activists said. For more than a year, President Bashar Assad’s air force rarely targeted territory controlled by the Islamic State[…]
WhatsApp us 