Syria

Iran criticised said the world should help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad confront 'the terrorists'

The international community should immediately act to defend the besieged Syrian town of Kobane from the ISIL militants, the UN's envoy to Syria said

Speaking to the Hürriyet Daily News in a telephone interview, Kılıçdaroğlu says Turkish soldiers should not enter Syria soil, adding that he believes the Turkish army is of the same opinion

What we understand out of Erdoğan and Davutoğlu’s remarks is that Turkish troops will not enter into Syria to help the Kurds in Kobane or to fight against the ISIL

BELGRADE - The Serbian Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office stated on Tuesday that it has raised an indictment against four persons from Novi Pazar and one from Belgrade on suspicion of partaking in armed operations of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

"Strong radical Islamist network in Kosovo"

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Parliamentary Committee on Kosovo and Metohija has concluded that "a strong network of radical Islamists and terrorists exists" in Kosovo.

Many members of that network are involved in conflicts in Syria and Iraq, the committee's chairman Milovan Drecun told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija concluded on Tuesday that a strong network of radical Islamists and terrorists exists in Kosovo-Metohija and that many members of that network are involved in conflicts in Syria and Iraq, the committee's chairman Milovan Drecun told Tanjug.

Abid Podbicanin, Sead Plojovic, Tefik Mujovic and Izudin Crnovršanin, all from Novi Pazar, and Ferat Kasumovic, from Belgrade, are accused of recruiting men to fight for the Sunni terrorist organisation Islamic State, or Isis.

The advance of ISIL militants on the Kurdish town of Kobane in northern Syria has prompted fresh protests across Turkey. While one person was killed and several were injured, a curfew was declared in two provinces

A Franciscan priest and several other Christians have been seized by al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in a village in northwestern Syria, the Franciscan mission to the Holy Land said