Syria

Serbian Army, KFOR "triple patrols" in GSZ

PRIŠTINA -- KFOR commander Salvatore Farina says the number of patrols of the NATO-led mission and of the Serbian Army in the Ground Safety Zone (GSZ) had been "tripled."

"Smugglers charge Kurdish migrants up to EUR 4,000"

PODGORICA -- Turkish citizens are enlisting the help of transportation firms and taxi drivers from Montenegro to smuggle illegal migrants, mostly Kurds.

Croatia's Security and Intelligence Agency, SOA, on Sunday warned that Islamist jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq are using Croatia as a "transit area on their way to and back from" the war zones of the Middle East.

Amnesty International on Sept. 2 accused Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) fighters of "systematic ethnic cleansing" in northern Iraq, as Iraqi troops, Kurdish fighters and Shiite militiamen backed by U.S. air strikes fought back against the jihadists.

PRISTINA - KFOR Commander Major General Salvatore Farina said in Pristina on Monday that the number of patrols of that military mission and the Serbian Armed Forces in the ground security zone has been tripled since the killing of Serbian Gendarmerie member Stevan Sindjelic.

The youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has claimed to have killed an operative of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul.

PRISTINA - Kosovo Albanian Mentor Zejnulahu was arrested at the airport in Tirana and was delivered to Kosovo on Friday.

He is the second resident of Kosovo arrested in the last two months on suspicion of being a jihadist, Pristina-based daily Lajm reports.

The police, according to Lajm, recorded his mobile phone conversations with jihadists in Syria.

Kosovo Albanian "associated with jihadists" arrested

PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo Albanian Mentor Zejnulahu was arrested at the airport in Tirana, Albania and was delivered to Kosovo on Friday.

He is the second resident of Kosovo arrested in the last two months on suspicion of being a jihadist, Priština-based daily Lajm reports.

The German government has approved a move to send a weapons package to Iraq's Kurdish regional authorities fighting Sunni insurgents called Islamic State (IS).

Both Qatar and the UAE have been in the firing line for human rights violations and eyes to imrove their image in the US with help of football Gulf States seeking to polish images tarnished by allegations of violations of human rights and their critics are employing football in an effort to shape American perceptions.