Tag: Syria

A growing number of Syrian Christian leaders are traveling to the United States to plead with lawmakers to stop sending arms to the rebels. The most recent visitor is the Patriarch of the Church of Antioch, His Beatitude Gregorios III,

While previously in a five-year decline, terrorist activity increased significantly in 2013, from the work of Islamist extremists to Greek anarchists to lone wolf attackers in America. According to a new report released by the United States Department of State

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Uighur terrorist explosion in Chinese railway station kills three Syria’s al-Assad now freely uses chemical weapons with impunity Syria still hasn’t surrendered tons of chemical weapons Uighur terrorist explosion in Chinese railway station kills

Radical Islamist groups fighting in Syria continue to conduct atrocities and executions. Now, reports indicate that extremists fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have publicly crucified two Syrian rebels. The executions allegedly took place in Raqqa, a

WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge in the number of aggressive al-Qaida affiliates and like-minded groups the Middle East and North Africa poses a serious threat to U.S. interests and allies, the State Department said Wednesday in reporting a more than

Although Kuwait supports the U.S. in aiding “besieged Syrian civilians,” they have also become “the leading source of funding for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists fighting in Syria’s civil war.”  According to The Washington Post, experts have said that “the amount of money

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Proof that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad used chlorine on civilians Kerry says that Russia’s Sergei Lavrov is ‘Kafka-esque’ Deadline expires for Kerry’s Mideast peace talks Russia closes the Sea of Okhotsk to Japan and China

A car bomb was used to kill at least 37 people in the Syrian city of Homs. “Another nine [were] killed by a rocket that followed” the car bomb. This follows an earlier attack “on a technical institute in central

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On April 27, envoy Sigrid Kaag said Syria is still in possession of “7.5 percent of its 1,300-ton stockpile” of chemical weapons. Kaag is serving as envoy for “the multinational mission to get rid of the weapons.” The mission is

BAGHDAD (AP) — Blast barrier walls topped with barbed wire snake across the Iraqi capital, encircling government buildings like a fortress and enshrining the separation of neighborhoods increasingly divided by religious sect. Soldiers and policemen brandishing assault rifles and machine

So violent, so bloodthirsty, is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Syria-based jihadist group, that even al-Qaida will have nothing to do with them. But young European Muslims will–and do. Earlier this month, German authorities arrested two men,

NPR reports that sources within the United States government are expecting the American military to increase aid shipments to Syrian rebels in the form of weapons and Jordanian training camps. The report follows news that President Bashar al-Assad’s government will

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com France plans to keep young people from going to Syria for jihad Obama says U.S. will defend Japan over Senkaku Islands Warring Palestinian factions announce a reconciliation agreement France plans to keep young people

The White House is considering sending over-the-shoulder anti-aircraft missile launchers to the Syrian opposition, Time reports. The move, which could significantly turn the nation’s civil war in the rebels’ favor, comes as Bashar al-Assad’s government announces presidential elections in June. According to