Syria

Trump in the UN: “Protecting religious freedom is one of my highest priorities”

US president Donald Trump has called upon all nations to “join” the United States in the “urgent moral duty” of protecting the religious freedom. He said so in a conference he led on this matter at the United Nations summit where secretary general Antonio Guterres accompanied him.

Terrorism

Amnesty International claims the US led coalition killed 1,600 civilians in Raqqa during the battle against ISIS

It happened during the operation to free the last great enclave that was in the hands of the terrorists, according to a major investigation on-the-ground and with satellite images that lasted almost two years. Amnesty International calls on the US, UK and France to evaluate their mistakes in the Syrian city of Raqqa so that they do not commit them again.

Islamophobia

Fadi Daou, Lebanese priest: “There is no religion which is more democratic than others”

Lebanon has 18 different religions officially recognized, half of the population are Muslims and about another 40% is built by Christian communities.

Facts & figures

1,700 ISIS members have returned to their home in Europe after migrating to the ‘caliphate’

They left home to join the self-declared ‘Islamic State’ in Syria or Iraq. They are originally from 33 other countries; 15 of them European. The UK is the European state with more returnees, while France is the one with more foreign fighters who join ISIS on the ground, according to a new study.

Terrorism

ISIS’ defeat in Raqqa stronghold is not as
game-changing as you might think

The loss of its last stronghold hinders the terrorist narrative of being a calling itself an “Islamic State”, but for some time now its territorial control had been already reducing and altering its strategy. Now the question in Raqqa is who will rebuild the city in the midst of the complex Syrian war.