Paramilitary organizations

Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on May 28 said France was intensifying diplomatic efforts to prevent six of its citizens being executed in Iraq after they were sentenced to death for belonging to Islamic State.

U.S. President Donald Trump is aware of the ties between the YPG and the illegal PKK, his special envoy for Syria and the global coalition to defeat ISIL said on May 22.

At the moment when the explosion was heard, Dacic was speaking with the president of Somalia, who "jumped up when the blast was heard."

According to RT, Al-Nusra terrorists fired 17 missiles on the Russian base, but the missiles were intercepted and the attack was repelled.

Anti-fascist demonstrators will stage protests on Saturday against the annual gathering in Bleiburg, which commemorates the tens of thousands of Nazi-allied Croatian troops and civilians killed by Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

Arab inhabitants of Syria's Deir al-Zor began a third week of pro-tests against the rule of YPG, the largest wave of unrest to sweep the oil-rich region since the U.S.-backed forces took over the territory from ISIL nearly 18 months ago, residents, witnesses and tribal figures said.

At least 13 police officers died in a Taliban attack on a police headquarters in the province of Baglan, the France press reported. The attack, started at noon in Pugli Homer, has 35 injured police officers and 20 injured civilians, a spokesman for the interior ministry said in a statement.

The spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said that if the United States designates the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, it will hamper democratization efforts in the Middle East and serve militant groups like ISIL.

Turkish police on April 29 detained five ISIL-linked suspects during a counterterrorism operation in the country's northeastern Trabzon province.

BIRN agreed not to reveal the identity of the family for security reasons.

"We are a normal family, like any other," the mother told BIRN, saying her daughter had left in December 2014.

"We addressed the local authorities [in Novi Pazar] but they all remain silent."