Yahoo News UK reports that an Italian Jesuit priest who hoped to negotiate with jihadists in Syria has “apparently been kidnapped by an Islamist group” which is “a local version of Al-Qaeda”, the foreign ministry in Rome said Tuesday. “You will all understand the difficulties. We have not given up, we are still hopeful” of recovering activist Paolo Dall’Oglio, Italy’s Foreign Minister Emma Bonino told Unomattina television programme. On Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it feared Dall’Oglio had been taken prisoner by jihadists in Raqa, Syria’s only provincial capital to have fallen out of regime control. Read article
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According to news.am, the Armenian Ministry for Foreign Affairs confirmed reports about two Armenian teenagers kidnapped in Syria. Armenian MFA Spokesperson Tigran Balayan informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that two Armenian teenagers, who were trying to get to Armenia through Turkish territory, were kidnapped in the suburbs of the Syrian City of Aleppo by gunmen. Read article
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Peopledaily.com.cn reports that the Greek Coast Guard found on Friday five bodies, two children among them, who are believed to have drown off the south eastern Aegean Sea island of Kos after the sinking of a boat carrying illegal immigrants to Greece from neighbouring Turkey. Based on the testimony of a Syrian man who was […]
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According to agi.it, a TV reporter working for Russia Today was injured in shelling on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, the broadcaster announced via Twitter. The journalist, Ibrahim Issa, was hit by shrapnel as he was following clashes between loyalists and rebels. Read article
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The BBC reports that a Turkish boy has died and another has been seriously wounded by stray gunfire from clashes across the Syrian border. Mahsun Ertugrul, 17, died after a stray bullet struck him in the chest in the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar. The bullets came from the northern Syrian town of Ras-al Ain, […]
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Dailystar.com.lb reported that, pro-regime Syrian politician Mohammad Jemo was shot dead in south Lebanon early Wednesday, al-Manar television station said. The station, the mouthpiece of Hezbollah, said the assassination took place in the southern coastal town of Sarafand. Read Article
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As reported by Timesofindia.com, Somali pirates struck again on Sunday by hijacking a Turkish-owned oil tanker off the western Africa coast. The Malta-flagged ship, MV Cotton, with its crew of 20 Indian sailors, was attacked near Port Gentil in Gabon. A Turkish foreign ministry official confirmed the incident said a foreign news agency. Six of […]
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Debka.com reported that, the man, aged 30, is in serious condition from a knife attack by two Palestinians Tuesday night as he left the Old City of Jerusalem through Damascus Gate after praying at the Western Wall. He was stabbed six times in the chest and back. Read Article
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As reported by Sunatimes.com, the journalist Liban Abdullahi Farah [Aka Liban Qaran] was shot and killed by unidentified armed men who immediately escaped from the scene at the centre of Galkacyo town, some 750 -km away from the country’s capital, Mogadishu. Initial reports say the jouenalist wasce killed by several armed men whom were not […]
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According to The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer travel to Egypt and U.S. citizens living in Egypt to depart at this time because of the continuing political and social unrest. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning issued on June 28, 2013. On July 3, 2013, the Department of State ordered […]
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