Month: September 2014

“The Arab League also endorsed in the closing statement of its meeting in Cairo a UN Security Council resolution passed last month calling on member states to ‘act to suppress the flow of foreign fighters, financing and other support to Islamist extremist groups in Iraq and Syria’: Arabs Vow to Confront Islamic State, Cooperate with…

An Israeli occupying Syrian vineyards in the Golan Heights, says the Asad regime “is not our cup of tea, [but]… we prefer that the Syrian army controls this region and not a group of radical Al-Qaeda Muslim people”: Israelis in Golan Heights Uneasy About Nearby Al Qaeda-linked Fighters in Syria (Christian Science Monitor) “[T]he core…

“Former Deputy Imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Mahmoud Ashour told Al Arabiya News that Sotloff’s killing was not only against humanity but ‘there is no religion that accepts the killing of a human soul.’ Ashour cited a verse from the Quran saying “Do not kill any soul, which God has made forbidden, except in just cause”…

As “U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri said there was “strong evidence” Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and allied groups had carried out targeted killings, forced conversions, sexual abuse and torture in Iraq” … U.N. to Send Team to Investigate Islamic State Crimes in Iraq (Reuters) … and “Iraqi Shia militias…