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STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors announced that a 49-year-old woman has been charged with violating international law and recruiting her son, when he was a minor, to fight in Syria. The detained woman is suspected of recruiting her 20-year-old son to fight in Syria while they were living there between 2013…

TEL AVIV — The Abraham Accords normalizing relations between Israel and the Islamic world are taking a wider scope, with talks of expanding the Accord to include Indonesia and four other countries. In a statement to E24 News TV, a senior official in the Israeli Foreign Ministry stated, “The goal…

Cairo – On the morning of Thursday December 30, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Ephram II arrived in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of St. Mark, dispatched Bishop Clementine, General Bishop of Hagana, Almaza and East Nasr…

TEL AVIV —Amid U.S. welcome, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the latter’s residence in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. The pair discussed critical security and civil issues, according to the Israeli Defense Ministry statement. The statement stressed that the meeting focused on…

HASAKAH, Syria — On 29th June, 2019, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of North and East Syria signed a joint action plan with the United Nations, with the approval of the Democratic Autonomous Administration (DAA) of North and East Syria, to end and prevent the recruitment of the under eighteen…

VIENNA — Despite her young age and suffering from the Syrian war, the 11-year-old Syriac girl Berolin Thani, from the Turkish-occupied city of Rish Aino (Ras al-Ayn) in Syria, made a great achievement, which is enrolling in Vienna University for Music and Arts— one of the best music universities in…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Twenty Democrat and Republican U.S. representatives signed a letter sent to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, recalling that the Human Shields Law passed by Congress in 2018 obliges the U.S. administration to submit an annual report to Congress on the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. Federal Court indicted  Bosnian-American Mirsad Hariz Ramik on charges of belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS) and providing it with material support. Mirsad Hariz Ramik (31), left Kentucky in 2014 and received military-type training from ISIS outside Raqqa, Syria, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.…

BERLIN — On the fifth anniversary of the Berlin terrorist attack, German internal intelligence warned of the continuing threat of terrorism, especially attacks plotted by extremists in prisons. Thomas Haldenwang, the head of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution — the country’s domestic intelligence service — told…

BERLIN — Germany’s largest pro-immigration advocacy organization Pro Asyl demanded the new German government find a political solution to the Belarus border migrants before Christmas. “We and the Refugee Council in Lower Saxony constantly receive distress calls from desperate relatives from Germany,” read the Pro Asyl statement. The organization stressed…