Syria

/ Middle East Issued on: 30/01/2022 - 22:08 Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deploy around Ghwayran prison in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on January 25, 2022. © AFP US-backed Kurdish forces on Sunday said they had defeated all Islamic State group fighters left inside the Syrian jail…

BEIRUT — With a spectacular jail break in Syria and a deadly attack on an army barracks in Iraq, the Islamic State group was back in the headlines the past week, a reminder of a war that formally ended three years ago but continues to be fought mostly away from…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comHONG KONG, Jan 30 (Reuters) - South Korea's World Cup qualification hopes remain in their own hands as they prepare to take on Syria in Dubai on Tuesday, knowing victory will secure their place in Qatar after celebrations were put on hold last…

WASHINGTON: An American woman who allegedly led an all-female Islamic State battalion in Syria has been charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist group, the US Justice Department announced Saturday. The woman, identified as Allison Fluke-Ekren, formerly of the US state of Kansas, had been named in a…

A woman who once lived in Kansas before moving to Egypt and Syria has been charged with joining the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group and leading an all-female battalion of AK-47 wielding militants. The US attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, announced on Saturday that Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, had been arrested and…

/ Middle East EXCLUSIVE Issued on: 28/01/2022 - 20:35 FRANCE 24's terrorism expert Wassim Nasr explains how an Australian teen's audio testimony reflects the plight of children held in prisons for Islamic State (IS) group fighters in Syria. © France 24 screengrab A massive operation by the Islamic State (IS)…

Tunisian security forces tighten security measures outside a metro station near the bus stop where a man reportedly wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in the early hours. (AFP) Tunisia's interior ministry said Friday it had foiled a "terrorist" attack, with the arrest of a woman returning from Syria…

Islamic State has been slowly preparing for a comeback in the Syrian and Iraqi territory that it lost nearly three years ago. Black Islamic State flags have cropped up in northeastern Syria in recent months, witnesses say. Men claiming to represent the jihadists have extorted shopkeepers and truck drivers. Over…

Sunday, February 6, 2022 Refugees in EU About 71,400 applications for asylum were lodged in the European Union and associated countries in November, up by nine per cent from October and the second-highest level since the refugee crisis of 2016, an EU authority said on Friday. Afghans made up the largest…

Mirage News 28 Jan 2022 11:06 am AEDTDate Time Thank you Madam President and thank you to Under Secretary-General Voronkov for his briefing. The evolving situation in North East Syria over the last week demonstrates how, even without territory, Daesh and its poisonous ideology continues to pose a threat in…