Violence against LGBT people

Turkish law enforcement officials on Jan. 29 caught Demet Taşar, a suspect sought with a red notice from Interpol for links to the Islamic State of Levant (ISIL), the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Turkish Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has criticized some Western countries for perceiving Turkey’s military operation in Syria as a distraction from the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Despite major defeats in Syria and Iraq, ISIS still remains the greatest threat to security and stability in the world. The terrorists have switched recently to single hostile activities and heinous acts of terror in the EU and throughout Asia.

In comments related to a scandal involving the sale of Greek army missiles and bombs to Saudi Arabia, New Democracy spokeswoman Maria Spyraki claimed that arms sold by Vassilis Papadopoulos, the broker used by the government to cut the deal, ended up with ISIS.

Nearly 6,000 Africans who participated in Middle East fights may return to Africa, warned African Union (AU) Peace and Security Commissioner, Smail Shergi, quoted by the France press.

An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who is believed to have been behind a deadly attack on Istanbul International Atatürk Airport was reportedly killed in a 17-hour-long anti-terror operation in Georgia.

Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta will stand trial with charges of publicly inciting violence against gay people and abuse of his ecclesiastical office. Attorney Cleo Papntoleon told Skai TV in an interview on Thursday that the Greek Orthodox priest would stand before a court after statements he had made in 2015 against the cohabitation agreement for homosexual couples. Mrs.

U.S. forces say they have carried out three drone strikes within 24 hours in Somalia, stepping up their campaign against the Islamic extremist rebels of al-Shabab and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Iraqi forces have launched an offensive to recapture the last bastion of so-called Islamic State in the country.

Soldiers, police, Sunni tribesmen and mostly Shia paramilitary fighters are taking part in the assault on al-Qaim and Rawa, in the Euphrates river valley close to the border with Syria.

The prime minister told IS militants to "choose between death and surrender".

A total of 92 percent of Syria's territory has been liberated from the Daesh terrorist group, according to information published in a newspaper affiliated with the Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday.