Hizb ut Tahrir (HT), a legal Islamist group in the UK with members and affiliates known to have previously run tax payer-funded schools and held elected positions in British universities, is operating alongside Al-Qaeda in Syria. Aided by the Nusra
Imam Abdul Hadi Arwani, described by the UK Daily Mail as “a Syrian preacher at a fundamentalist mosque,” was gunned down on the streets of London on Tuesday, possibly because he was an outspoken critic of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
Britain’s latest ISIS terror recruit is a resident of Britain’s most racially-segregated town and the brother of this country’s youngest convicted terrorist. Labour’s junior justice minister Shahid Malik dismissed any link, saying, “Lightning stuck twice.” Hassan Munshi, 17, from the
(Reuters) – Jordan said it had temporarily closed its border crossing with Syria on Wednesday because of violence on the other side of the frontier, a move it described as a precautionary measure.
The government of Uruguay has closed its doors to former Guantánamo detainees “definitively” and halted its program to accept refugees from the Syrian civil war for at least another year, according to Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa.
The fate remains completely uncertain of around 220 Assyrian Christians who continue to be held captive in Syria by the Islamic State terror group.
Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News that the United States is now willing to negotiate with (and accept as a legitimate ruler) Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a striking contrast from the administration’s prior insistence that regime change would be the only tolerated approach for Damascus.
It’s already been blamed for a beer shortage, shrinking goats and the death of the Loch Ness Monster; now global warming has a new charge against it: that of causing the civil war in Syria. A new study has drawn
Former Republican Senator from Maine and Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton William Cohen said that the US’ handling of the Syrian Civil War “emboldened” America’s enemies by failing to enforce its red lines in a speech at the Center
The government of Uruguay received international acclaim for its decision last year to accept a high number of refugees from the Syrian Civil War, citing the need for countries across the world to participate in saving the lives of those attempting to escape. It is now reneging on its promise, at least in part: only women and children will be allowed to relocate to Syria, with the government citing a need to quell domestic violence.
