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The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has sent several hundreds of fighter to Kobane, in addition to the 400 fighters already in the town, a commander of a unit said on Thursday. FSA fighters, who oppose the Syrian regime, have joined the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) to defend Kurdish Syrian border town Kobane, and will shortly be joined by the …

A social experiment in which a Canadian actor posed as an Islamophobe ended with the actor getting punched, suggesting the generally tolerant environment in Canada despite isolated racist abuse after the recent terror attack in Ottawa. Director Omar Al-Bach conducted the social experiment in Hamilton, the home town of Corporal Nathan Cirillo, the victim of the Ottawa attack. Two actors …

Iraqi peshmerga forces On Thursday reached the Turkish border as they prepared to join their fellow Kurds fighting the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Kobane. According to monitoring group Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a group of ten fighters were to coordinate with the Kurdish militia in Kobane that has been resisting the IS assault for the past six …

Islamic State (IS) militants on Wednesday executed over 40 people from a tribe the Albu Nimr tribe, which had battled them in the province of Anbar. According to local sources, the tribesmen were killed in the Heet region to the northwest of Baghdad, which had been overrun by the IS earlier in the month. However, there are no hard statistics …

On Tuesday, an international conference held in Berlin about the Syrian refugee crisis promised to extend long-term financial support to countries struggling to deal with Syrian refugees, which the UN has labeled the world’s “most dramatic humanitarian crisis”. Almost 40 international bodies and countries adopted a declaration saying that they would “mobilize for years to come” increased developmental support to …

The UN Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to talk about Israel’s plans to construct more settlement building in East Jerusalem. The talks were requested by Jordan after a letter from Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour, who had called on the council to “address this crisis situation in occupied east Jerusalem”. UN Undersecretary General for Political …

The mother of Michael Zehaf Bibeau, who shot down a soldier in Ottawa recently, claims that her son’s actions were in despair and expressed doubt over his radicalization. Zehaf-Bibeau killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial before being killed in a gunfight with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and security personnel at the Parliament Building. According to Postmedia …

On Friday, a student at a US school opened fire in the school, killing two students and wounding several others before he took his own life. The incident occurred in the cafeteria of Marysville-Pilchuck High School in the town of Marysville, Washington. Marysville police spokesman Robb Lamoureux spoke to reporters after the incident, saying, “We are confident that there was …

The Masjid al-Salaam mosque in the town of Burnaby has recently come under the spotlight after it was discovered that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the man behind the Ottawa shooting, had attended the mosque. However, on Friday, the mosques fielded questions from international press members to dispel all notions that the Mosque has not condoned his actions. B.C. Muslim Association’s spokesman for …

Reyhaneh Jabbari, the Iranian woman who was hanged on Saturday for killing her alleged rapist, in her final message to her mother, said that she will get her justice in “the court of God”. The 26-year-old, who was executed despite an international campaign arguing for a seven-year prison sentence instead, left the voice message in April to her mother Shole …