In Nigeria, 234 Christian schoolgirls abducted; a Jesuit priest shot in the head outside his house in Homs, Syria; a young Christian woman dragged from her car in Egypt and beaten to death… These are some of the latest stories
With President Bashar al-Assad’s term coming close to an end, Syria announced today that it will hold presidential elections on June 3, within the 60-90 day window the constitution requires. The announcement raises many logistical concerns involved in staging an
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby praised the resilience of persecuted Christian minorities around the world in his Easter sermon on Sunday. The Church of England leader also highlighted the suffering of people in Syria, Ukraine, Rwanda and Pakistan. Welby’s Easter
The head of Britain’s Charity Commission has warned the organisation’s “most deadly” problem is Islamist extremists setting up charities as cover for their activities. In an interview with the Sunday Times, William Shawcross said: “The problem of Islamist extremism and
The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) is searching for two ‘jihadi poster girls’ who it fears may have been tricked into going to Syria and fighting on the side of Islamist rebels opposing Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The two photogenic Austrian
Opposition activists accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of yet another new poison gas attack in the capital of Damascus on Wednesday, posting footage of four men being treated by medics for apparent chemical exposure, reports The Jerusalem Post. The
(AFP) Syria has reached a “critical moment” as the world awaits news of fresh peace talks, China’s foreign minister told the warring nation’s opposition leader Ahmad Jarba in Beijing Wednesday. Wang Yi was speaking at the start of four days
While the civil war in Syria is between Bashar al-Assad’s Alwaite regime and the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels, the neutral Christian and Druze minorities in Damascus are paying a high price. Regime forces are using Christians and Druze neighborhoods as a
One year ago today, we were met with yet another solemn reminder: the ideologies that promote, recruit, and train militant Islamist jihadists are alive, well, and growing. When Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnev detonated the two bombs at last year’s Boston
A deadly gas not on the list of chemical weapons Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was made to relinquish to the international community last year was used twice in a northern Syrian village this weekend, prompting accusations that both the government
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that the three-year civil war in Syria is “passing through a turning point” following a series of military victories by government forces. “This is a turning point in the crisis, both militarily in terms
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com New poison gas attack reported in Syria The Afghanistan elections and the Afghan-Pakistan Taliban alliance The presidential runoff in Afghanistan New poison gas attack reported in Syria Reports from both the Syrian government and
A decade and a half of socialist repression and months of protests with seemingly no end have catapulted Venezuela to the top of the list of the world’s most dangerous nations. According to a study by the U.N. Office on Drugs
Britain and America are investigating claims that the Syrian government has carried out a series of new chemical attacks in the suburbs of Damascus, according to The Times of London. British officials said yesterday that they were “aware of multiple
Threatened military strikes against Syria would not have affected the course of the country’s civil war, US Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers on Tuesday. Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry said US military action — ultimately
Senior Israeli defense officials said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime used chemical weapons in two attacks in Damascus 10 days ago, according to a report in The Times of Israel. Officials said that the chemical agents used in
The “project of political Islam has failed,” Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday, calling for the separation of religion from politics, state television said. Assad’s regime has been battling an uprising that has come to be dominated by Islamists,
Residents of the Syrian town of Taibet al-Emam in western Syria revolted against the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra militant group occupying their community on April 5th, killing and wounding more than 50 rebels, according to SANA radio. It seems that
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.N. registers million’th Syrian refugee in Lebanon Sunni jihadists in Lebanon prepare for war with Hezbollah John Kerry says ‘It’s reality check time’ for Mideast talks U.N. registers millionth Syrian refugee in Lebanon Lebanon,
A Conservative MP has warned that the inquiry into the Muslim Brotherhood ordered by David Cameron could backfire if the organisation ends up wrongly proscribed for terror links. Crispin Blunt, a former justice minister, said that any wrongful banning of
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has swept the second European Union Referendum debate, defeating the Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister by a poll result of 68 percent to 27 percent. The YouGov poll was echoed even by the Guardian newspaper’s ratings,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Abbas applies to U.N. agencies as ‘State of Palestine’ Kerry cancels meeting with Abbas and leaves Mideast Egypt’s terror cells get training in Syria and explosives from Libya Abbas applies to U.N. agencies as
Saudi Arabia has effectively outlawed expressions of atheism in a new anti-terrorism law decreed by King Abdullah. Intended to tackle the growing number of Saudis joining foreign fighters, the law also turns criticism of Islam into a thought crime. The
As President Obama was reading his teleprompter on March 20th to announce sanctions against Russia, Syrian rebel forces, led by al Qaeda-linked Islamic Front and Jabhat al-Nusra, launched a surprise offensive in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border. The offensive,
Smaller countries have much a bigger “clout” on the international stage than EU members do, according to a new report. Countries such as Switzerland, which is outside the EU, can negotiate better trade deals with other nations than the European
