Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Youth are being deceived in Palmyra “Tadmor” city by convincing them to join the National Defence Forces NDF in order to be exempted from the subsidiary military service. Activist in Palmyra...
(Reuters) - Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a second Japanese hostage, journalist Kenji Goto, prompting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to vow to step up humanitarian aid to the group's opponents in the Middle East and help bring his killers to justice. "I feel intense...
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of longtime Palestinian refugees in a camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital have been cut off from United Nations emergency aid for nearly two months by armed groups that are preventing access, a U.N. official said. Up to 18,000...
An prominent ISIL chemical weapons engineer was killed in a coalition airstrike, U.S. Central Command said Friday. According to statement from CENTCOM, the militant was killed Jan. 24 in an airstrike in the vicinity of Mosul in northern Iraq. "[Abu] Malik...
