Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are ready to move into the occupied city of Manbij by Islamic State. However, they still keep a break and not to endanger the remaining inhabitants informed the rebels backed by the West on Tuesday.
The British government warned Monday for a high threat of attacks on foreigners in South Africa. A few days earlier there was a similar warning from the US Embassy in Pretoria.
A new offensive by fighters in Syria backed by the United States could save from the hands 40,000 citizens of Islamic State, if that succeeds. That the US military said Friday during an initial briefing on the operation, which takes place at the border with Turkey.
Düsseldorf's Old Town should have been the scene of IS by a bloody terrorist attack. Thursday, German police arrested four suspects, but according to information from the magazine Spiegel were the terror plan far greater. IS least ten terrorists were to ensure a bloodbath.
The World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations has a plan in place for food drops in nineteen besieged areas of Syria. But both the funding and the approval of the Syrian government is needed before it can enter into force, WFP indicated Friday.
In Germany, three arrested members of a terrorist cell of Islamic State, has notified the Federal Public Ministry Thursday. They would, together with a fourth suspect who is stuck in France were planning to commit a terrorist attack in the center of Düsseldorf.
A twenty Swede Thursday sentenced to five years in prison for planning a suicide attack with a bomb. The instructions for this he had taken from the Internet, along with propaganda of the terrorist group Islamic State, the court ruled in Attunda.
A coalition of Syrian troops backed by the US say they are about to recapture the city of Manbij and surrounding areas in northern Syria Islamic State (IS). The troops called Thursday on citizens to stay away from the positions taken by IS, because that will be attacked.
Syrian Kurdish PYD excludes citizens who are beaten fleeing Islamic State from the area in northern Syria that it holds. The Kurdish movement retaliates as the bombing by rival rebels on its fighters in Aleppo, notify the United Nations.
Russia denies that it has carried out in the night of Monday to Tuesday airstrikes in Idlib, a city in northwestern Syria, which is in the hands of rebels. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came to the attacks at least 23 people dead.
At Russian air strikes on the rebel-controlled city of Idlib in northwestern Syria have come in the night of Monday to Tuesday at least 23 people dead, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The organization speaks of the heaviest bombardments since a partial cease-fire was agreed in February.
The alliance of Syrian militias backed by the United States has stepped up the offensive against Islamic State near the IS stronghold Raqqa. The attack is focused on an area where the terrorist group has control over a former air base, letting out a monitoring group and a Kurdish official Monday.
The Iraqi army on Monday launched an attack on Fallujah, the stronghold of the group Islamic State, not far from Baghdad. In the southern district Naimiya sounded explosions and gunfire.
The chief negotiator of the Syrian opposition supported by the West quits. He stops his work because it does not work in the peace talks to find a political solution to the war in Syria.
More and more people flee to Syria from Mosul, the major city in northern Iraq, which is in the hands of terrorist group Islamic State. Only in May 4200 already attracted people from Mosul to Syria, says UN refugee agency UNHCR on Friday. It is feared that this number will go up to 50,000.
A new round of peace talks on Syria will definitely not take place in the next two or three weeks. Commissioned by the Special Envoy of the United Nations Staffan de Mistura know Thursday.
A memorial service has killed a member of the terrorist organization Islamic State into a Christian church in Germany caused a lot of fuss and discussion. Pastor Sieghard Wilm plans Friday in the Evangelical Lutheran St. Pauli Church in word and prayer focus on the death of a seventeen year old boy who left Hamburg to fight in Syria and Iraq.
A group of Belgian young people aged sixteen to nineteen years old wanted to commit an attack in Antwerp. This has confirmed the Belgian judiciary. Wednesday were arrested in the investigation of four people young terror cell in a series of raids.
The Belgian police made raids Wednesday on eight addresses associated with terrorism investigation. According to the federal prosecutor no weapons or explosives were found, but there would have been planning an attack in Belgium.
Since Russia began in late September on a large scale air strikes in Syria, more than a third of the jihadists in the country slain. It's about 28,000 of the 80,000 fighters of the Islamic State (IS) and the al-Nusra Front. This said Evgeni Loekianov of the Russian Security Council Tuesday according to news agency Sputnik.
Kurds in northern Syria have launched an offensive to conquer the 'capital' of the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State (IS), Raqqa.
Fighters of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in Syria have attacked a Russian military base, leaving four combat helicopters and twenty military vehicles went up in flames. This reported the US think tank Stratfor, which deals with intelligence and is also called the private CIA.
The last of the four executioners of Islamic State, which beheaded dozens of people last year and there videos of spread has been identified. It's a Londoner which claimed his mother was always a good boy, but radicalized in a short time.
By bombings in two cities on the Syrian coast on Monday certainly slain hundred people. This was reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Mourad Laachraoui, the brother of one of the bombers in Brussels became European champion taekwondo and has thus qualified for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Authorities in Malaysia have arrested fourteen men on suspicion of links with and support to the terrorists of the Islamic State. One of the suspects is found to be an aircraft engineer.
Followers of Islamic State have been called in an audio message during Ramadan to commit attacks in Europe and the United States. They should, according to the terror group,, everywhere a dangerous month for unbelievers. '
The Kremlin wants the Russian forces in Syria together with the US jihadists go harass. Russia, according to the Defense Minister Sergei Sjoigoe, the Washington-led international coalition in the Middle East proposed to begin May 25 with joint air strikes.
Iran is prepared to settle the disputes with its archrival Saudi Arabia. The region has no more tension, but need peace and stability, said Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi Friday according to ISNA news agency. The Saudi decision to sever relations with Iran had claimed Aragchi therefore not sensible.
In the lawsuit surrounding the terrorist cell that was early last year rolled required by the Belgian Verviers Thursday hefty prison sentences. Against four prominent members who would like to carry out attacks in Belgium demanded the federal prosecutor prison sentences of 18, 16 and twice 15 years.
