An Indonesian court has sentenced Tuesday seven supporters of the Islamic State group to prison terms of three to five years. The court considered it proven that they were planning to commit or prepare terrorist acts.
Minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs) will be interviewed Monday by the users of the social site Reddit. Who could ask him questions live, who answered the minister. The questions were about Syria, the Ukraine referendum, MH17 and refugees. But a few people wanted to know Koenders: Fight against you prefer a duck as big as a horse or against a hundred horses as big as ducks?
The US Justice continues an Iraqi woman for her role in the death of aid worker Kayla Mueller. The 25-year-old Umm Sayyaf is the widow of the slain Abu Sayyaf, a leader of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).
Turkey and Germany to ask its NATO allies for help in tracking the refugees from Turkey over Aegean sea Greece and then try to reach Western Europe. That the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. US President Barack Obama announced it feel for a role for the alliance.
In Syrian prisons go so many prisoners dead, that there seems to extermination. This pointed a committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday in Geneva. Even in places where rebels detain people, everyday people are tortured and killed.
Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old Londoner, has been identified as a member of a British group IS militants. The Washington Post reported Sunday. This group also made Emwazi Mohammed, known as Jihadi John, part. The latter was notorious for its beheadings.
Spanish police on Sunday arrested seven people suspected of supporting 'Islamist militant groups' fighting in Iraq and Syria. Under the guise of humanitarian aid they sent money and containers full of weapons, raw materials for bombs and computers to the battlefield, put the Interior Ministry in Madrid.
The United Arab Emirates say they are prepared to send ground troops to Syria as part of an international coalition against Islamic State (IS).
The mother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Anisa Makhlouf, is at the age of 86 deceased in Damascus, Syrian state media reported Saturday.
European foreign ministers have urged Turkey to open the borders for refugees from the Syrian Aleppo. They were gathered this afternoon in Amsterdam, chaired by Dutch Minister Bert Koenders. 'Because the Russians with their bombing to try to improve the situation of Syrian President Assad, is now a humanitarian crisis is emerging. I understand that the Turks want to screen who they all admit, but it is a humanitarian duty to help these refugees. '
Syria will consider any incursion into its territory as an act of war. That the Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid al-Moualem, said Saturday. He responded thus on the Saudi announcement that Riyadh is ready to send ground troops to Syria.
Police have rightly taken the passport of a 22-year-old Danish with Kurdish roots, who has fought in Iraq and Syria against Islamic State. Which held a court in Copenhagen Thursday.
Terror Group IS condition, according to US intelligence 'significantly' worse than a year ago. The group would still have between 19,000 and 25,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria, according to a report Thursday it released White House. Last year it was estimated that IS had 20,000 to 31,000 fighters.
At the donor conference on Syria on Thursday in London, a huge amount for the victims of the civil war promised. The participants have more than $ 10 billion (around 9 billion) on assistance to refugees in the coming years.
The United Nations Security Council will meet Friday on Syria. This was reported by the news channel Al-Arabiya on Thursday. The UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, the fifteen members of the council will inform about the crash of the latest peace talks on Syria in Geneva.
Turkey is an invasion of Syria to prepare. At least, that suspect the Russian Defense Ministry, where a spokesman said Thursday.
The European Union has this year more than 3 billion euros to improve the situation of Syrian refugees in Syria and neighboring countries. That made Union Minister Donald Tusk announced Thursday at an international donors conference for Syria in London. The European price Netherlands will contribute 125 million euros.
Tens of thousands of Syrians from Aleppo route to the border with Turkey by the intensification of the bombing of the city. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said Thursday during the donor conference in London.
The international community must ensure that can get all Syrian children in Syria and in neighboring countries education. That said British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday.
The latest talks in Geneva that has approached bring peace to Syria, is suspended until February 25th. This special envoy of the UN for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said Wednesday.
Syrian forces have Wednesday northwest of the city of Aleppo evacuated two adjacent villages. The villages Nubul Zahraa and were besieged by rebels. At breaking the siege have fighters from the Hezbollah helped.
In 2015, 112 journalists have been killed by violence. Over the past quarter-century, a total of 2297 journalists and people with whom they worked together for life. The worst year was 2006, when 155 reporters died by violence.
The special envoy of the United Nations Wednesday Syria received 'various parties' for the next round of consultations. That UN envoy Staffan de Mistura announced Tuesday. A major alliance of opposition groups questioned earlier in the day openly whether she would again sit down.
Flanders wants the export of arms to war countries like Syria and Yemen do not rule out in advance. The Flemish Minister Geert Bourgeois said Tuesday at the parliament that he wants an end to the current policy of imposing a license in advance is useless.
The talks in Geneva which should bring peace to Syria closer is still in preparation. This was said by the head of the Syrian government delegation, Bashar al-Jaafari, Tuesday after a meeting with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura. De Mistura himself said that the consultation does is officially launched.
The population of Jordan has reached its boiling point by the reception of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. That Jordan's King Abdullah Tuesday told the BBC.
The major powers should begin negotiations on a cease-fire in Syria. That is not the special envoy of the United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Monday itself.
The Syrian government agrees,, in principle 'to a request from the UN to bring supplies to the besieged places Madaya, al-Foua and Kefraya. The United Nations announced Monday it.
Starvation of civilians in Syria may be a war crime and a crime against humanity and therefore can never be part of any amnesty. That said, the United Nations human rights chief on Monday.
The Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime must leave within six months if there is a political transition gets underway. This demand comes from the High Negotiation (HNC), the main Syrian opposition group.
