A 24- year old Saudi man,who was part of the most brutal of the terror groups- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), currently fighting the Assad forces, has revealed that the Syrian war is not a revolution but a fight among various muslim factions, who are killing innocent people.
WASHINGTON -- The brutal war in Syria could grind on for a decade as Iran and Russia prop up President Bashar Assad's regime and jihadist groups flood the battlefield, experts warned Thursday.
PARIS -- For the French archaeologists Pierre Leriche, 73, and Jean-Claude Margueron, nearly 80, who both spent decades uncovering Syria's rich past, it is almost too painful to look at its grim present.
ISTANBUL -- Just hours after the prime minister of Turkey threatened to shut down Facebook and YouTube, the country's president voiced reassurance on Friday that reversing course on civil liberties was "out of the question.
Baghdad -- Campaigning for the Iraqi parliamentary elections, scheduled for April 30, will begin in just a few days.
The March 5 incident that resulted in martyrdom of gendarmerie Sgt. Musa Somay close to the Iraqi border near the village of Ortasu in Sirnak province has set off alarm bells for those concerned with keeping the solution process intact.
BEIRUT (AP) -- Once a vibrant, religiously mixed community, Syria's eastern city of Raqqa is now a shell of its former self, terrorized by hard-line militants who have turned it into the nucleus of their vision for the Islamic caliphate they hope one day to establish in Syria and Iraq.
(Reuters) -- A Turkish court ordered the release of former general Ilker Basbug from a life sentence on Friday, adding to uncertainty over the fate of court cases trying coup plots against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
Iraq's Shia-led government has drafted a family law for the country's Shia majority that feminist activists and rights groups say will impose an Iranian-style theocracy, violate women's rights and sow further divisions in a nation that is already sharply split on sectarian lines.
Syria (AINA) -- The Assyrian group known as Dawronoye (Revolutionaries) and their branch in Syria, which goes under the name of Syriac Union Party, stand accused of name-stealing.
Stockholm (AINA) -- Two Swedish-Assyrians have been chosen by their parties to run for seats in the European parliament. Isak Betsimon from the Swedish green party Miljopartiet and Robert Hanna from the liberal party Folkpartiet have both announced their candidacy.
Brussels (AINA) -- A well known Assyrian church manuscripts is the topic of a new book by Dr. Ayda Kaplan, a Belgian born Assyrian researcher. The Dioscoros Theodoros lectionary is one of the most famous illuminated Assyrian manuscripts.
(AINA) -- The U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations held a hearing today on "The Worldwide Persecution of Christians." The hearing was chaired by Rep. Christopher H. Smith.
(AINA) -- The Association Assyrophile de France has announced that it has changed the location of its online Assyrian dictionary project. The dictionary is available to students, Assyrians and all others interested in the Modern Assyrian language.
Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians and Turks held demonstrations outside the municipal building of Botkyrka, a small town approximately 20 KM southwest of Stockholm, as the municipal council met yesterday to consider the proposal made by Assyrian groups to erect a genocide monument.
Stockholm (AINA) -- Tensions are rising in the Swedish municipality of Botkyrka, south of Stockholm, as Assyrian groups push for a memorial site for the victims of the Turkish genocide of Assyrians in World War One, known as Seyfo (sword) in Assyrian.
(AINA) -- On April 22, 2013 Bishops Yuhanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazici were kidnapped in Syria. During the kidnapping their driver was murdered. A fourth person in the car, Fuad Eliya, was released.
(AINA) -- On January 21 the Iraq Council of Ministers approved a plan to establish three new provinces in Iraq.
(AINA) -- Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, recently made a historic visit to Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey. It was Barzani's first visits to a city which may well become the capital of a future Kurdish state in Turkey.
(AINA) -- Let's face it. The plight of the Christians in the Middle East has not gotten the attention it deserves from political elites in Europe and North America.
Baghdad -- Lent is "a period of intense prayer and fasting" to promote a better future for our country, and the Middle Eastern region, and to put an end to the exodus of Christians from Iraq.
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