The arrest on terror charges this week of two Iraqis who entered the United States as refugees is fueling sentiment in Congress against the program for resettling refugees from the Middle East.
The number of French women joining the ranks of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is on the rise, say figures reported in the French media on Thursday, a sign of the increasing importance placed on female recruits by the organisation.
Der Islamischer Staat (IS) hat seinen Anhängern die Entnahme der Organe von Gefangenen erlaubt, wie aus von der US-Regierung an die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters zugespielten Dokumenten hervorgeht.
As Turkey has found itself entangled in a series of disputes with more than one of its neighbors, a senior Turkish official has argued the country was encountering multiple “wars of propaganda,” with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the center.
Australia's federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has rejected government backbencher Kevin Andrews' call to send troops to Syria to fight Islamic State (IS).
US President Barack Obama would veto a proposal from Republican lawmakers in the US House of Representatives for additional scrutiny of refugees from Syria or Iraq, the White House said on Wednesday.
A group of Iraqi refugees staged a demonstration in the Finnish capital of Helsinki on Monday to protest against Finland's freezing granting asylum to Iraqi and Somali applicants.
The UN and World Bank said Saturday they will increase financing for the Middle East and North Africa to help countries there deal with millions of refugees and rebuild after conflicts.
Hanna Yussef dreams of following thousands of fellow Iraqi Christians to refuge in Europe, abandoning a precarious existence in Jordan, where he has lived since fleeing Islamist violence at home.
Archeological sites in Syria are being looted "on an industrial scale," with proceeds being used to fund Islamic State extremists, the head of UNESCO warned today.
UN,
24 August 2015 – Extremists “cannot silence history,” the
Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, declared today, firmly condemning
the destruction of Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin, in Syria, a
World Heritage site.
Syrian activists and the country's antiquities chief say the so-called Islamic State militant group has blown up an ancient temple in Palmyra, one of the the most historic sites in the Middle East.
ISIS extremists in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the “most brutal,
systematic” destruction of ancient sites since World War II, the head of
the U.N. cultural agency said Friday - a stark warning that came hours
after militants demolished a monastery with ancient foundations in
central Syria.
The U.N. says a funding crisis has led to the closure of a majority of health programs in Iraq.
UN, 28 July 2015 – An increasing number of people in Iraq, including families with children and the elderly, have increasingly encountered deadly ambushes as they try to escape areas controlled the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levan (ISIL) by risking their lives on a treacherous mountain journey to safety, the United Nations human rights office reported today.
The number of Iraqis internally displaced by the conflict is now over 3.1 million people, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Tuesday.
More than 50 child soldiers recruited by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria have been killed since the beginning of this year, a monitoring group said July 15.
They arrive full of hope and ambition to idyllic Greek islands, having fled war and other perils. However, once in Athens the migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan discover a country in crisis with little to offer them.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) destroyed two ancient Muslim mausoleums in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities director said Tuesday, according to Agence France-Presse.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Leavnt (ISIL) militants have laid landmines and explosives at the site of the ancient ruins in Syria’s Palmyra, a monitor said June 21, adding the purpose of the move was unclear.
