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BRUSSELS / ZALIN, Syria — During a meeting of the Belgian Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee, Belgian Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmès announced that 27 children in displacement camps in North and East Syria would undergo DNA testing before being repatriated. Wilmès noted that tests could be conducted locally and analyzed in Belgium.…

CANBERRA — Following U.S. President Joe Biden’s historic decision to recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915, Jewish organizations in Australia protested, demanding that the Israeli and Australian governments break their silence and recognize the atrocities committed by the Ottoman Empire as genocide. On 20 April, the New South Wales Jewish…

The Beth Nahrin National Council issued a statement praising U.S. President Joe Biden’s historic decision to recognize the 1915 genocide of the Armenian people by the forces of the Ottoman Empire and called on countries around the world to recognize the Armenian Genocide as well as the concurrent genocides of…

DARAMSUQ / BENGHAZI, Libya — A recent article by The African Report, a media outlet focusing on Africa affairs, revealed an increase in flights between Syria and Libya in recent months, likely carrying mercenaries and drugs to Libya. Since the beginning of April, according to the article, Syrian Cham Wings…

PARIS — The Dernières Minute Alzas newspaper reported that French authorities have arrested seven people as part of an investigation by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office regarding a visit by a man to Syria who is suspected of providing funds to terrorist groups in the country. The newspaper reported that…

NEW YORK — Human Rights Watch has criticized the United Nation’s nomination of Iran to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, citing the country’s unfortunate records of women’s rights. On its website, Human Rights Watch listed a number of reactionary Iranian laws that target women. For example, Iranian…

STOCKHOLM — After the Swedish government’s refusal to use the term genocide in describing the massacres of Syriacs (Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans) by the Ottoman Empire in 1915, Chair of the Municipal Board of Södertälje, Sweden, Boel Godner (Swedish Socialist Democratic Party) said that verbal recognition of the genocide committed against the Armenian…

COPENHAGEN — On Tuesday, Danish police announced the arrests of six men suspected of joining and financing the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria. The men, aged from 27 to 35, were arrested in Copenhagen and Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark, by Danish police in coordination with Danish Security…

STOCKHOLM — Abraham Halef and Ingela Nylund Watz, Members of Parliament in Sweden for the Social Democratic Party, called for the adoption of a law requiring the inclusion of the Sayfo in the Swedish educational curricula and textbooks. Sayfo is the term Syriacs (Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans) use for the Ottoman genocide of…

STOCKHOLM — Instead of world states allocating their budgets to fight the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, most of them have increase their military spending, according to a report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The Institute report indicated that total global military spending amounted to $1.981 trillion in…