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IS militants force children to donate blood in Syria
According to stranded residents in the Syrian province of Raqqa, children in the area are being forced to donate blood by Islamic State (IS) militants who have taken over the province.
IS militants often threaten residents with death sentences in the mosques where around 2,20,000 people once worshipped freely.
Abu Ibrahim RaqqAwi, the pseudonym of a lifelong Raqqa resident who in April 2014, founded the activist campaign “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”, said that people have now become accustomed to death threats and are no longer afraid of it.
He also said that there were no schools or university and the prices were extremely high with little water or electricity.
Prices of common good are also high in the province while drinking, smoking and Middle Eastern tradition of hookah is banned in Raqqa.
Source: DNA
Al Qaeda claims to kill several Houthis in central Yemen
Ansar al-Sharia group said on Twitter that its fighters had detonated a bomb at a Houthi patrol in Radaa on Friday, leaving several militants dead.
An al-Qaeda-linked group on Sunday claimed to have killed a number of Shiite Houthi militants in Yemen’s central Radaa city.
Ansar al-Sharia group said on Twitter that its fighters had detonated a bomb at a Houthi patrol in Radaa on Friday, leaving several militants dead.
There has been no comment from the Houthi group.
Yemen has recently appeared to be on the verge of civil war, as the Houthis seek to expand their control beyond capital Sanaa, which they took over in late September.
The Houthis’ growing influence in the country has pitted it against both Al-Qaeda – said to be active in politically fractious Yemen – and allied Sunni tribes.
Recent fighting between the warring camps in the country’s central and western regions has left dozens dead.
Source: aa.com.tr
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Seven Christian Churches Up in Flames Amid Niger Charlie Hebdo Violence
At least seven churches were burned down in Niger’s capital of Niamey on Saturday, January 17, amid anti-Charlie Hebdo protests.
Rioters have set fire to at least seven churches in Niger’s capital of Niamey on Saturday during an ongoing turmoil, sparked by Charlie Hebdo’s publication of a cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad.
“The sites, which were primarily evangelical churches, were torched on the left bank of Niamey, several of them housed in small villas that bore no distinctive religious signs,” Agence France Presse reported.
The right bank of Niamey with its numerous churches has also been targeted by rioters.
Terrorists are now more blood-thirsty and indiscriminate
When one of the men who directed the US embassy bombing in Nairobi was being interrogated by American detectives in the second week of August 1998, he issued this outburst after being asked why Al-Qaeda had chosen to attack Kenya.
Libya: ISIS claims bomb attack on Algerian embassy
Assailants lobbed explosives at Algeria´s embassy in the Libyan capital Saturday, wounding three people, a security official said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
The IS Libya branch said “soldiers of the caliphate” attacked the empty mission in a message posted on Twitter, together with a photograph of a tree-lined street with a fire in the background.
There was no independent confirmation of the claim — reported by the US-based monitoring group SITE Intelligence.
The IS posted a similar claim for a December 27 car bomb attack outside the building of a Libyan unit tasked with securing diplomatic missions that left no casualties, SITE reported at the time.
The security official, who works for the unit, said Saturday´s attack in central Tripoli seriously wounded a guard and that two passers-by were lightly hurt. Medical sources confirmed the toll.
The assailants threw “a bag full of explosives from a passing car at a police car parked near a guard post”, he said, adding that the attack caused damage to the building and parked cars.
But in the brief tweet, the IS said the blast was caused by an explosive device planted by its militants under the guard station.
Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra of neighbouring Algeria condemned the bombing. “Any attack on a diplomatic post is a crime under international law,” he said.
Saturday´s attack came a day after a coalition of militias declared a ceasefire, hours after an agreement at UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva between Libya´s warring factions.
The oil-rich nation has been wracked by conflict since dictator Moamer Kadhafi was toppled and killed in a 2011 uprising, with rival governments and powerful militias battling for control of key cities and the country´s oil riches.
The foreign ministry of Libya´s internationally-recognised government denounced Saturday´s bombing as a “cheap attempt to influence the national dialogue in Geneva” that are to continue next week.
Source: thenews.com.pk
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Siria: una guerra senza fine? Profughi, ostaggi e foreign fighters a 4 anni dallo scoppio della crisi
Profughi: un problema senza soluzione?
Cosa vuol dire essere ostaggi in Siria?
Alcuni degli ostaggi liberati negli scorsi mesi hanno raccontato la loro terribile esperienza in Siria. Tra i racconti più commuoventi e significativi c’è quello di Theo Padnos, che è stato liberato a ottobre dopo essere stato prigioniero per due anni di Jabhat al-Nusra: lo stesso gruppo che ha rapito Vanessa Marzullo e Greta Ramelli.
Nelle mani di questa formazione jihadista potrebbe esserci anche l’unico ostaggio italiano in Siria: Padre Paolo Dall’Oglio. Il gesuita romano è stato sequestrato a fine luglio 2013 nel nord della Siria, e da allora non si hanno notizie certe sulla sua sorte. Tuttavia, poco dopo la liberazione delle due giovani studentesse, lo stesso account twitter che aveva dato la notizia (@sadeer1) ha diffuso un nuovo messaggio nel quale ha scritto che Padre Dall’Oglio è ancora vivo e si troverebbe nelle prigioni dello Stato islamico a Raqqa.
Chi sono i foreign fighters?
Uno dei temi più caldi in merito all’evolversi della crisi siriana riguarda il coinvolgimento dei combattenti stranieri. Secondo i dati dell’International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR) il gruppo più numeroso di europei sarebbe di origine francese (700), seguito dagli inglese (400) e dai tedeschi (270). La maggior parte di questi combattenti ha meno di 40 anni e si stima che circa il 10-15% siano donne.
Source. ISPI