Release of IS fighters threatens
tel aviv December 21, 2018 06:16The Kurds in Syria, abandoned by Donald Trump, threaten to release about 1100 captured IS fighters. That means potentially a big danger for Europe, where Interpol director...
The Kurds in Syria, abandoned by Donald Trump, threaten to release about 1100 captured IS fighters. That means potentially a big danger for Europe, where Interpol director...
Following his decision to immediately withdraw all US troops from Syria, President Donald Trump ordered to drastically reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan. In…
President Trump also wants to stop aerial attacks on positions in the Middle East of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist movement. Trump has decided this according to US officials. He…
President Trump has defended his decision to immediately withdraw the last US troops from Syria as a logical step. He argued via Twitter that he has been there for years...
The US has begun to recall all troops from Syria. The military must be gone within three to four months. In a tweet, President Trump claimed victory over Islamic State.
President Trump's decision to withdraw all troops from Syria met strong criticism from Republican party members. The senators Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio denounced the...
Donald Trump's government wants to immediately recall the US military from Syria. That's what sources at the Pentagon have reported to the Washington Post newspaper. It is more than two thousand...
Islamic State (IS) killed seven hundred prisoners in eastern Syria in two months time. That says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that relies on local sources.
The police in Berlin on Tuesday early in a mosque invaded because of terrorist suspicions.
Two of the three refugees are, according to the German Employment Office (BA), dependent on a social assistance benefit. Among them are also many children and people who have a job, but...
Certainly 43 people were killed in the east of Syria on Saturday in an air strike by the US-led military coalition. The dead are mainly civilians, including seventeen children and twelve women. That reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
The correctional court of Antwerp has the former imam Yussuf E.G. (28) from Berchem sentenced to eight years in prison and 8000 euros fine for participation in Islamic State (IS). He also loses his Belgian nationality.
Moscow resumed direct passenger flights to and from the Syrian capital Damascus after six years. This is reported by the international Russian airport Sheremetyevo on its website.
For the first time in almost a year, a United Nations aid convoy has reached a refugee camp in southern Syria. The 50,000 people in the Rukban camp near the three-country point of Syria, Jordan and Iraq need urgent help, according to the UN on Saturday. In addition to food, medicine and hygienic material, vaccines have also been put in place for about 10,000 children.
Islamic State has reclaimed large areas in the east of Syria containing one of the largest oil fields in the country. This is reported by sources within the opposition in the Deir-al-Zor province.
The leaders of Russia, Turkey, France and Germany have met in Istanbul about the future of Syria. They want to smooth the peace process again. A committee that has to work on a new constitution for the country must, according to a joint statement, start working in Geneva before the end of the year.
Agents of the Russian security service FSB have arrested six terrorists in the Moscow region who wanted to carry out attacks in the capital. According to the state media, they were controlled by leaders of Islamic State in Syria.
The convicted leader of the terrorist group Sharia4Belgium, Fouad Belkacem, loses his Belgian nationality. The court in Antwerp has determined that.
According to various media, the German authorities have prevented a major terrorist attack by Islamic State. This was preceded by a survey of more than a year. It was intended that in June three jihadist teams would travel to Germany to make the preparations and ensure implementation.
Nearly three hundred Syrian White Helmets have left Jordan. They are taken care of in Western countries, reports the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The citizen research team Bellingcat acts as a front for Western intelligence services to manipulate public opinion. That accusation comes from the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with Euronews.
The border crossing between Jordan and Syria will open again on Monday after years of being closed. This is confirmed by a Jordanian government spokeswoman and Syrian state television.
Turkey has given a new name to the road leading to the new American embassy in the country. The road in the capital Ankara is now called the Malcolm X road, to the leader of the militant civil rights movement for black Americans who was murdered in 1965.
Belgians cast their vote on Sunday in municipal and provincial elections. They are the first polls since 2014 and are seen as an important indicator for the parliamentary elections in May next year. Approximately 8.2 million Belgians can vote for municipal councils and in Flanders and Wallonia also for provincial councils.
Nineteen migrants were killed in western Turkey when the truck they were in was crashing. Five people were injured according to Turkish media, including the truck driver.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he will shortly talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the occurrence of military incidents over Syria. Netanyahu said he agreed with Putin on Sunday during a short telephone call.
Russia will deliver the anti-aircraft system S-300 to Syria in two weeks. That will significantly increase the effectiveness of Syrian air defense, said Russian minister Sergey Sjojgoe (Defense). The system can hit multiple targets simultaneously at a distance of more than 250 kilometers, according to news agency TASS.
Greece will transfer 2000 migrants from a shelter on the island of Lesbos to the mainland before the end of the month. The Moria relief center accommodates between 2000 and 3000 refugees, but according to figures from the Greek government, there are now around 9000 people.
According to the United States last year, the number of terrorist attacks dropped by 23 percent to 8584, according to the United States. This is stated in an annual report published by the US State Department on Wednesday.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin's 'deep participation'. stated after shooting a Russian military aircraft off the Syrian coast. According to him, the incident is the result of the 'usual arrogance of Israel \u0026 quot; always the 'dirtiest means'; used for his ' low goals \u0026 quot ;, can be read in a condolence letter. The Syrian state news agency SANA reports this on Wednesday.