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A 20-year-old German man was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison on Dec. 5 after he admitted joining Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Syria, in the first trial in Germany of a home-grown jihadi accused of membership of the insurgent group.

Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, on Wednesday met with his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, on the sidelines of the international informal conference on ISIL taking place in Brussels, reads a release of MAE to AGERPRES.

As Turkey’s public policies regarding cemevis, Alevi places of worship, have been labeled as discriminatory by the top European court on human rights, a Turkish court has made a landmark decision, stating that the determination on whether cemevis are places of worship or not cannot be made by the judiciary.

A suicide attacker drove a car laden with explosives at the Iranian ambassador’s residence in the Yemeni capital Sanaa Dec. 3, security officials said, killing as many as three people.

Shortly before last week's operation of the State Agency for National Security against extremism, a video with Bulgarian-language captions was released on the internet, in which Islamic State explains its ideology and denies having committed any atrocities.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is bent on raising his profile in the Islamic world, or at least the fundamentalist part of that world, at the expense of Turkey’s reputation, and standing in the West.

The Pazardzhik court ruled that the seven accused for propagation of anti-democratic ideology and and instigation of war must remain under arrest, awaiting trial.

Dear Pope Francis,

As I as writing these lines, your plane was about to land in Ankara. As an ordinary Turk, and a Muslim, I just wanted to wish you welcome, and share some thoughts about Turkey, Islam, and, if you don't mind, even about your mission.

Bulgarian prosecutors have charged seven people with membership of a criminal group preaching radical Islam and propagating war, local media reported on Wednesday.

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NATO is not considering establishing a no-fly zone in northern Syria, something Turkey has been calling for to alleviate security and humanitarian pressure on its southern border, one of the alliance’s top generals has told Reuters.