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Thousands of leaked Daesh documents indicate that many initiates were not well versed in Islam before joining the extremists, with records showing some British converts even purchased a Koran and Islam for Dummies from online retailer Amazon. The Associated Press conducted a probe using court […]

PARIS: The jihadi employment form asked the new recruits to rate their knowledge of Islam on a scale of one to three. And the Islamic State group applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly deemed ignorant. The […]

Moscow’s actions following the Syrian chemical weapons attack in 2013 could as well have saved the country from a possible massive strike by NATO forces, Sergey Shoigu, Russia’s defense minister, said. Such a strike could have involved over 600 cruise missiles, he added. “What would’ve […]

Moscow and Washington are in direct talks to resolve the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, Syria, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. “We are in a very active phase of talks with our American counterparts both in Geneva and in Amman; we are frequently in […]

Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, repeatedly shared the coordinates of a hospital in Yemen with all parties in the conflict in in that country prior to the medical facility being hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Monday, the organization said on its official Twitter […]

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces on Monday repelled a renewed rebel assault southwest of the city of Aleppo, forcing opposition forces to retreat from positions they seized a day earlier in the latest territorial back and forth between the two warring sides trying to break each […]

A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital in Yemen’s northern Hajja province on Monday, residents and local officials said, killing at least seven people and wounding 13. A Reuters witness at the scene of the attack in the Abs district said medics could not […]

 Frauen im Ganz-Körper-Badeanzug (Burkini) haben in einer Therme in Bad Saarow (Oder-Spree) in Brandenburg den Unmut anderer Badegäste zu spüren bekommen. Eine junge Berlinerin, die zusammen mit ihrer aus dem Libanon stammenden Familie am Samstag dort Badegast war, stellte Strafanzeige, wie ein Polizeisprecher am Montag in Frankfurt […]

Un centre d’assistance aux réfugiés en provenance du sud-ouest d’Alep a ouvert auprès de l’église orthodoxe de Saint-Elie, dans le district de Wilal. D’après un correspondant de Rossiya Segodnya sur place, les membres de l’organisation ont distribué des objets de première nécessité à plus d’une […]