Obama? Osama? Same diff? - CNN typo 'Navy SEAL killed Obama' provokes Twitter storm (VIDEO)

Tape emerges of Clinton discussing bin Laden day before 9/11 attack

  

All you need to know about ISIS and what is happening in Iraq - ISIS Jihad Training Program | Islamic State of Iraq & Sham VIDEO

Children of hate - The boy jihadis PHOTO

 

News about 4000 U.S. troops landing at Baghdad International Airport

   

Al Qaeda-linked jihadists accused of hanging victims on crosses

 Photos taken in the northern Syria town of Raqqa Tuesday appear to show executed men being hung in public, crucifixion-style. (Courtesy: Raqqa is being Slaughtered Silently)

Al Qaeda-backed jihadists are hanging the bodies of executed enemies on crosses crucifixion-style in a town in Northern Syria, according to a Syrian opposition group.

Syria militants vandalize churches near Damascus

Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Syria have vandalized churches in Ma'loula on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.

Syria: Armenian Christians Forced to Convert to Islam or Die

 

Arabic language websites reported earlier this week that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant—which, throughout the course of the war against the Syrian Bashar al-Assad government has committed any number of atrocities, from decapitating “infidels” to burning churches—has successfully “forced” two Armenian Christian families to convert to Islam.

Once protected, Christians have become fair game in Iraq and Syria

    

A warning appeared on many Facebook accounts in Iraq last week: “The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant organization intends to attack English teachers.”

Missing Syrian nuns taken by rebels appear in video

BEIRUT — A group of Syrian Greek Orthodox nuns reportedly seized by rebels from a convent near Damascus denied in a video broadcast Friday that they had been kidnapped and said they were being held in a safe place.

' Maaloula sisters in Yabrud - Syrian nuns used as human shields'

 Yabrud - Syria

Syrian rebels want to use nuns "kidnapped" from their Maalula convent north of Damascus as "human shields," pro-regime daily Al-Watan said on Wednesday.

Russia Urges Release of Abducted Orthodox Nuns in Syria

       

Baku -- Russia’s Foreign Ministry and the Russian Orthodox Church have demanded the release of a group of nuns reportedly captured by Islamist rebels at an ancient convent in Syria. The nuns were taken away by armed men who broke into the Greek Orthodox convent of St Thecla on Monday in the village of Maaloula, some 50 kilometers from the Syrian capital Damascus.

Thirty seven thousand women were raped in the suburbs of Damascus only

 

The number of victims during the war in Syria has exceeded 100 thousand people; the number of refugees has exceeded two million people. Statistics usually bypass the number of victims among women. But crimes against women are an essential part of the tragic statistics of this war, participant of the women's movement in Syria Bianca Madia said in an interview with the Voice of Russia.

The number of rapes committed during the last three years is simply enormous. The Human Rights Watch organization (HRW) recently published a report on the living conditions of Syrian women. But there is not one iota of truth in this document; it looks like it was created only to accuse the authorities.

Islamist fighters move nuns from captured Christian village in Syria

 

Islamist fighters who captured a Christian village north of Damascus have moved some nuns to a nearby town but it was not clear if they had been kidnapped or evacuated for their safety, the Vatican's ambassador to Syria said on Tuesday.

Nuns trapped as al Qaeda-linked rebels seize Christian town in Syria

 

DAMASCUS, Syria –  Nuns were trapped in an ancient pro-government Christian village, the government said Monday, after al Qaeda linked rebels seized large swaths of the area.

Why Won't the West Defend Middle Eastern Christians?

         

Why has the suffering of the Middle Eastern Christian communities not ignited outrage and support from Western Christians? The answer has something to do with Israel and the Second Coming, writes Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch. 

Syriac Orthodox Archbishop: "What happened in Sadad is the most serious and biggest massacre of Christians in Syria..."

 

ASIA/SYRIA - Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Alnemeh: "In Sadad, the largest massacre of Christians in Syria"

Beleaguered Syrian Christians fear future

 

 

 DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sami Amir is used to the deep echoing rumble of the Syrian army artillery pounding rebel positions on the outskirts of Damascus. It's the thump of mortars launched from an Islamist-controlled neighborhood that scares him to death.

Afghanistan: Taliban attack US consulate in Herat with suicide bomb, gunfire

 

Taliban militants unleashed car bombs at a US Consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday morning, triggering a firefight with security forces in an attack that killed at least two Afghans.

The US said all its personnel from the mission were safe and that American forces later secured the site.

Al-Qaida-linked Syria Rebels Hit Christian Village

Maaloula before the war

BEIRUT — Al-Qaida-linked rebels launched an assault Wednesday on a regime-held Christian village in the densely populated west of Syria and new clashes erupted near the capital, Damascus — part of a brutal battle of attrition each side believes it can win despite more than two years of deadlock.

As the world focused on possible U.S. military action against Syria, rebels commandeered a mountaintop hotel in the village of Maaloula and shelled the community below, said a nun, speaking by phone from a convent in the village. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The attack came hours before a Senate panel voted to give President Barack Obama authority to use military force against Syria — the first time lawmakers have voted to allow military action since the October 2002 votes authorizing the invasion of Iraq.