ISIS Claims Responsibility for Car Bomb Detonated Outside Church in Northeast Syria
(International Christian Concern) –A car bomb was detonated outside the Virgin Mary Church in Qamishli, a city in Northeast Syria, injuring eleven. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. Communications intercepted by an American Intelligence group discovered that the jihadists were targeting a gathering of “belligerent Christians”. While More...
Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in Syria car bombed, at least 7 killed or injured
(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on July 11, 2019, a car bomb exploded next to the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in the Syrian city of Qamishli. The Assyrian More...
Adam Raishani Sentenced 20 Years for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that ADAM RAISHANI, a/k/a “Saddam Mohamed More...
Dear Mr. President: Bipartisan, bicameral letter urging the completion of the Syria withdrawal process
Republicans and Democrats, Senators and Representatives. A diverse group of lawmakers sent President Trump a letter in support of his decision to bring U.S. troops home from Syria and urging the completion of the More...
Jaysh al-Izza faction of the Free Syrian Army blamed for attack on Christian City
(International Christian Concern) –The Syrian Christian city of Mhardeh is once again under attack, this time from the Jaysh al-Izza faction of the Free Syrian Army. The attack severely damaged a thermal power More...
Jesuit priest Father Paolo Dall’Oglio remembered after disappearance in Syria six years ago
Portrait of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio SJ, founder of the Community al-Khalil in Deir Mar Musa, Syria, taken in the premises of the Community’s new monastery Deir Mariyam al-Adhra in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi More...
Veterans For Peace attack Trump over ‘US intervention in Venezulea’ opposing the ‘unfolding coup’
As the socialist regime in Venezuela collapses, President Trump has motivated the Western World to call for change in leadership, but the Veterans For Peace is opposed to the move: read their press release below. Dear More...
Fake News: Outlets attack Trump for America’s addition to the ‘deadliest countries for journalist’ list
The United States is officially now among the deadliest countries for journalists, according to an annual report now out from Reporters Without Borders. The U.S. ranked among the most lethal countries for journalists, More...
Syria: Christian schools being forced to teach Kurdish language, curriculum, may be closed permanently
(International Christian Concern) – Syria’s northeast has developed into an autonomous region since the civil war began in 2011. As the civil war enters into what many experts regard as a new phase with the More...
Treasury imposes sanctions on Syria over ties to Islamic State, Russia, Iran
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four individuals and five entities pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13582, “Blocking Property and Interest in More...
