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Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, with around 90,000 killed for their faith in 2016, the director of a leading religious study group has said. Massimo Introvigne, Director of the Centre for Studies on New Religions

Berlin police released security camera pictures as part of their hunt for a gang of young migrants who they believe attempted to murder a homeless man in Christmas day by setting him alight. Officers have now arrested seven men between the

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it viewed a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on weapons supplies to Syrian rebels as a “hostile act” which threatened the safety of Russian warplanes and military personnel, the RIA news agency reported.

The Turkish army on Monday accused Islamic State (IS) jihadists of killing at least 30 civilians seeking to flee the flash-point Syrian town of Al-Bab, which Ankara and its rebel allies have been seeking to capture for weeks.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski argued that after eight years of President Obama, “our foreign policy seems to be as shaky as ever, in terms of our role around the world. … And I think that

Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which purports to speak for American Muslims, spent part of Christmas Day tweeting that he had hoped more people had died in the previous night’s Russian plane crash into the Black Sea.

Samantha Power has disqualified herself from any human rights discussion, unless it is to explain how someone can be a bystander to genocide.

Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja M. Asif threatened Israel late Friday night, following a fake news report from the websiteAWD, stating that Israel’s defense minister was threatening to destroy Pakistan.

Contents: UN Security Council fails to impose arms embargo on South Sudan; Leaders of South Sudan and Syria following parallel paths to genocide

The Turkish government is responding to a critical situation in Syria, announcing the death of 16 of its troops in al-Bab after the release of an Islamic State video showing jihadists burning two other soldiers alive.

Britain’s Prince of Wales has spoken out on national radio in an appeal for persecuted Christians and minorities across the world, but the Royal also moved to criticise “populist groups”.

Syrian jihadi parents kissed their daughters goodbye shortly before one of them was blown up by a remote detonator in a suicide bombing attack on a police station.

Contents: Man who shot Russia’s ambassador in Turkey was in security forces; Turkey and Russia blame Fethullah Gulen and the US for the assassination; Both Turkey and Russia stand to gain by blaming US for assassination

On Wednesday’s episode of Whatever It Takes on the Breitbart News Network, Breitbart’s lead investigative reporter Lee Stranahan and host Curt Schilling attacked the establishment media’s coverage of the Syrian Civil War, saying the press was covering up the facts

Russia and Iran, allies of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria, met with pro-Syrian opposition Turkey in Moscow on Tuesday and agreed to work on drafting a peace deal and to serve as “guarantors” of any future resolution between the Syrian regime and rebel fighters, according to the Kremlin’s foreign minister (FM).

Dr. Herb London of the London Center for Policy Research, co-author of The Encyclopedia of Militant Islam, discussed the terrorist assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in response to the assassination of a Russian ambassador by a Turkish policeman, said he would welcome Russia’s participation in investigating the incident, noting that Ankara and Moscow agree the attack is intended to disrupt mutual ties.

Social media channels linked to the jihadist rivals Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda are celebrating and capitalizing on Monday’s assassination of Russian ambassador in Ankara by a Turkish policeman, who shouted the common battle cry of Islamic extremists as they commit mass murder, “Allahu Akbar,” during the attack.

TEL AVIV – Islamic State sympathizers and militants are celebrating an incident on Monday in which a lorry ploughed through a crowd of shoppers in a busy Christmas market in Berlin, reportedly killing nine people and injuring more than fifty.

The on-again, off-again evacuation of civilians from Aleppo has resumed, despite an attack on evacuation buses blamed on al-Qaeda’s Syrian operation, the Nusra Front.

Syrian refugee Aras Bacho has said that women are mostly to blame for the New Years’ Eve sex attacks across Germany last year.

Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad calls Aleppo’s ‘liberation’ a historic event; Syria and Russia suffer a big military setback in Palmyra; Syria’s civil war shows similarities to America’s Vietnam war

Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of the best-selling book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday that “the alpha males are back” when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Syrian regime allies Russia and Iran are expected to discuss efforts to secure a ceasefire in Aleppo with Turkey, which has supported various armed groups seeking to overthrow dictator Bashar al-Assad, revealed Turkish Foreign Minister (FM) Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Hundreds of protesters have marched through central London today to demand the British government help civilians caught up in the Syrian civil war in Aleppo. Waving Syrian flags, and banners reading: “save Aleppo”, “hand in hand with Aleppo” and “enough with

State Department spokesman John Kirby and Associated Press (AP) reporter Brad Klapper clashed Wednesday in several testy exchanges about the Obama administration’s Syria policy.

(Associated Press) BEIRUT –  An agreement was reached Saturday to allow “humanitarian cases” to leave two besieged government-held Shiite villages in northwestern Syria, a step that would allow the resumption of civilian and rebel evacuations from eastern Aleppo which were

A new video from the Islamic State’s “news” agency Amaq purportedly shows an abandoned Russian forward base in the Syrian city of Palmyra, which was recaptured by ISIS last weekend. The video also shows Islamic State militants picking through captured Russian weapons at the base.

Recent sweeping gains by the pro-Assad alliance in Aleppo signal the rise of an emboldened Iranian-led radical Shi’ite axis. The more this axis gains strength, territory, weapons, and influence, the more likely it is to threaten regional and global security.

The evacuation of civilians from Aleppo has halted again, only a day after it restarted. Both the Syrian government and rebel forces are accusing each other of firing on civilian convoys.

With all eyes on Syria and a global order decayed by invasions, interventions, and arming of rogue factions by the Kremlin, the Democratic Party appears poised to lay the blame for Russian aggression at the foot of President-elect Donald Trump.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer declared that historically President Barack Obama’s legacy will feature the deterioration of Aleppo in the Syrian civil war and not the Iran deal, as he may have hoped it

The number of “battle-ready” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis in Iraq and Syria has plummeted to “its lowest point” ever, dropping by more than half from up to 25,000 earlier this year to between 12,000 and 15,000 now, according to the White House.

The American commander of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria told reporters that losing the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra to the terrorist group “is probably an embarrassment” to the Russians, and it is up to them to take it back, noting that the city is “theirs” to defend.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” State Department Spokesperson Admiral John Kirby (Ret.) stated that the failure in Syria “is not on the leadership of the United States, or even other members of the international community.” Kirby said, “[I]t’s

The Syrian regime and its Russian patron have attempted to patch up the quickly-shattered ceasefire in Aleppo and arrange for civilian evacuations, a point unclear in the previous arrangement.