The UN Human Rights Council has called for those behind “massive scale” enforced disappearances in Syria during the past 10 years of conflict to be held accountable. The resolution, presented on Tuesday by several European countries, the United States, Turkey and Qatar, decried that Syria’s crisis had entered a second decade “marked by consistent patterns […]Read More
Militants armed with knives killed 3 guards at high-security jail outside of the capital, authorities said Thomson Reuters · Posted: May 20, 2019 2:14 AM ET | Last Updated: 6 hours ago Abdul Ahad Rustam Nazarov, 28, a Tajik man who joined Islamic State, is pictured during an interview with Reuters, in the town of […]Read More
London (CNN)British teenager Shamima Begum, who left the UK to join ISIS in 2015 and has expressed a wish to return home, is to be stripped of her UK citizenship, her family’s lawyer said Tuesday. The 19-year-old, who gave birth on Sunday, made headlines last week after she was found in a refugee camp in […]Read More
More than 1,000 ISIS fighters have likely fled from Syria into the mountains and deserts of western Iraq in the past six months, and they may have up to $200 million in cash with them, according to a US military official familiar with situation. ISIS fighters have continued to flee even as the final fighting […]Read More
Speaking to Sky News from the camp and hours after giving birth, Begum said she was aware of ISIS beheadings and other brutality before she left to join the group, and was “OK” with it. “Yeah I knew about those things and I was OK with it. I started becoming religious just before I left. […]Read More
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) – The United States is likely just weeks away from starting the withdrawal of ground troops from Syria ordered by President Donald Trump, the top U.S. commander overseeing American forces in the Middle East said on Sunday. U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, cautioned […]Read More
The top US commander in the war against ISIS aligned himself Sunday with the US intelligence community assessment that there are “tens of thousands” of ISIS fighters spread across Syria and Iraq. “They are dispersed and disaggregated, but there is leadership, there are fighters there, there are facilitators there,” Gen. Joseph Votel told reporters traveling […]Read More
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that by next week he will be able to declare the defeat of the extremist group Islamic State’s (IS) “physical caliphate.” “The United States military, our coalition partners, and the Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by [IS] in Syria and Iraq,” […]Read More
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold Syria talks in Moscow on Wednesday, with Turkey saying they will focus on Ankara’s so-called “security zone” in northern Syria. The two leaders are on opposite sides of the conflict: Russia provides critical support to the Syrian government, while Turkey has backed […]Read More
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that killed four Americans and at least 10 other people in the Syrian city of Manbij on Wednesday. The American deaths included two US service members, a defense contractor and a Department of Defense civilian, the US Central Command said in a statement. Three other US service […]Read More
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