Syrian government forces and their allies on Thursday a strategic town southeast of the capital Damascus retaken by rebels. This was reported in the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on reports from activists.
The Turkish journalist Arzu Yildiz on Wednesday sentenced to twenty months in prison for violating the confidentiality of a court hearing. Yildiz, who has two children, is also deprived of parental authority, told her lawyer.
The Turkish police have issued a nationwide alert for possible terrorist attacks by the Islamic State group around a Turkish national holiday on Thursday.
For the coast of Sicily on Monday rescued boat people in 1153 within hours. They were smuggling ships en route from North Africa to Europe, but were on the high seas run into trouble, reports the Italian Coast Guard.
Turkish and American combat forces have again attacked positions of Islamic State in the hard-fought Syrian city of Aleppo. Media in the region reports that the coalition while 27 terrorists slain.
Diplomats from more than twenty countries will meet Monday in the Austrian capital Vienna to discuss the conflicts in Syria and Libya. They are invited by the US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
Islamic State on Saturday carried out an attack on a hospital in the southwest of Deir al-Zor. The extremist rebels conquered land on the outskirts of the besieged city in eastern Syria, where government forces still partly have to say.
The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah Sunni extremists designated Syria as a chief perpetrators of the militia movement, Mustafa Badreddine have slain. That reported to Hezbollah affiliated television broadcasting al-Manar Saturday in Beirut.
A 25-year-old man was sentenced in Britain to life imprisonment because he had plans to murder American soldiers who worked at a base in England. According to British media he was observing potential victims and potential during his work as a courier.
Belgium is planning six combat aircraft type F-16 to send to the Middle East to assist in bombing targets in Syria. The Defence Minister Steven Vandeput, which has proposed to the Council of Ministers. The Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported Friday that in fact the government has already approved the proposal of Vandeput and that approval is a mere formality.
A senior commander of the radical Shiite Hezbollah movement is slain at the border between Lebanon and Syria. This was done according to a Lebanese television channel in an Israeli airstrike.
In an attack with a car bomb in southeastern Turkey Thursday evening at least four dead and 15 wounded.
In a bomb attack on an armored police vehicle Tuesday in the center of the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir cases thirteen wounded. The authorities reported that a car bomb exploded as the vehicle passed.
The criminal proceedings against members of the terrorist cell that was rolled in the Belgian Verviers early last year, began Monday chaotic. The trial began later and had to be put stop much earlier than planned.
The Slovak police have shot at the border with Hungary on a car with migrants. It is a woman from Syria injured. According to the police kept themselves at the border post Velky Meder different cars with migrants and let one of them will stop only after shots were fired.
The Turkish police has arrested two men in connection with the failed attempt on Can Dündar, editor of the critical newspaper Cumhuriyet. In total there are now beside the shooter three suspects in custody. One would have supplied the weapon, one was on the lookout. From the third is the input still unknown.
Three Spanish freelance journalists who allegedly were abducted in Syria are free. The trio waits in Turkey on a government plane that brings them back to Spain, writes El País.
The cease-fire in the Syrian city of Aleppo is extended by 72 hours. According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed this. The regime of silence, 'as the fragile truce is called, includes the northern coastal province of Latakia, starting on Saturday night 1 pm (local time).
The Turkish journalist Can Dündar on Friday survived an attack in front of the court in Istanbul. He was unharmed when he was shot. The perpetrator was arrested, according to Turkish media.
The Syrian army denies being behind the attack on a refugee camp that killed Thursday at least 28 people died. The denial was distributed Friday by the Syrian state.
Through its least 28 people died in an air strike on a refugee camp in Syria. This was announced by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Thursday.
Several people were injured when two from Syria fired rockets came down in the Turkish border town of Kilis. This was announced by Turkish officials Thursday.
By armed conflict last year all over the world 167000 people were killed. According to a report published Thursday by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.
After the beginning of a new truce stopped the fighting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Thursday that there have been no violations of the cease-fire. The local television station Halab Today said that there is peace in the city.
Russia's FSB security service has a number of arrests prevented an attack near Moscow. Russian news agencies reported this Wednesday.
The terrorist organization Islamic State was largely back the boss in Al-Schair, an important area for gas production in Syria. There were heavy fighting in the area east of the city of Homs in advance.
Dozens of people have been killed since Tuesday morning by fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Which has declared the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Wednesday. According to the organization in terms of the fiercest fighting since a year.
US Secretary of State John Kerry believes a ceasefire in Syria is still possible, although adopted violence extraordinary proportions, particularly in Aleppo. He warned Bashar al-Assad for,, repercussions '' unless the Syrian president abides by the agreement for a cease-fire.
IS terror has made deals with the government of Assad in Syria about the conquest of the historical city of Palmyra. That would at least clear from documents that are owned by Sky News.
A hospital in the Syrian metropolis Aleppo on Tuesday, hit by rockets. In the al-dabit hospital were dozens of dead and injured, report the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
