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Muslim Council of Britain Offers Crocodile Tears over Stabbing at Manchester Synagogue
An Islamist organization with a long history of vilifying Israel in the United Kingdom has condemned the stabbing deaths of two Jews and wounding of three others in Manchester, England. The attack took place outside the Heaton Park Hebrew...

A decade after the refugee crisis that shook Europe, a Syrian family becomes German
BERLIN (AP) — Nearly a decade after fleeing Syria’s civil war, Rahaf Alshaar sat on her couch in a leafy suburb of Berlin sipping Arabic coffee spiced with cardamom. When she, her husband and their three daughters arrived in Germany as refugees,...

The Media Line: Arrest of Syrian in Berlin Signals Europe’s Willingness To Bring Assad-Linked ‘Refugees’ to Justice
Audio By Carbonatix Arrest of Syrian in Berlin Signals Europe’s Willingness To Bring Assad-Linked ‘Refugees’ to Justice Sultan, who came to Germany about five years ago, presented himself to authorities as a refugee but continued his involvement...

El Cajon Syrian community fearful of deportation after ending of Temporary Protected Status
EL CAJON, Calif. (KGTV) — Chaotic gun battles continue to break out in parts of Syria, a country fractured from more than a decade of civil war. Syrians living in San Diego argue these are not safe conditions to return to as the Trump...
U.S. Ends TPS for Syrians, 60-Day Departure Deadline
The Biden administration’s reported decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Syrian refugees forces a stark choice between America’s humanitarian values and perceived security concerns—at precisely the moment when Syria remains one of...

UK Terrorist Who Killed Two People Outside Synagogue in Manchester Has Been Identified as British Citizen of Syrian Descent Named ‘Jihad’
Jihad Al-Shamie holding a knife and wearing a IED belt, before getting shot and killed by police. A terrorist called Jihad. Just when failing Prime Minister Keir Starmer was out criticizing ‘shocking Met police racism‘, a British citizen of Syrian...

Syria: Mass Arrests in Raqqa for Conscription, SDF Denies
Activists in Raqqa city (northeastern Syria) said that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) detained more than 500 people over the past few days, releasing only those who carried papers postponing mandatory military service. Media activist Fares...

Copycat fears after British-Syrian knifeman kills two at synagogue
Counterterrorism police and the security services were on heightened alert on Thursday night for potential copycat attacks after a suspected Islamist terrorist murdered two Jewish men at a synagogue on the holiest day of the Hebrew calendar.Police...

Gallery: Night of outrage across Europe as Israel detains dozens of activists from Gaza flotilla
A demonstrator holds a placard that reads "Palestine, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria. Israel is assassinating with the unconditional support of France" during a protest to condemn the Israeli forces' interception of vessels of the Global Sumud...

Meet the Syrian Migrant Named Jihad Who Killed Manchester Jews
No one grounded in reality will be shocked to discover the background of the terrorist who attacked a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. Jihad Al-Shamie, whom Greater Manchester Police describe as a “British citizen of Syrian descent,” took his...
News The Telegraph Manchester synagogue attacker named as British citizen of Syrian descent
The Manchester synagogue terror attacker has been named as Jihad Al-Shamie. The 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent was shot dead by police moments after he targeted worshippers at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester...

How Syria's first elections since autocrat Assad's ouster could unfold
Syria is set to hold parliamentary elections on Sunday for the first time since the fall of the country's longtime autocratic leader Bashar al-Assad, who was unseated in a rebel offensive in December. Under the 50-year rule of the Assad dynasty,...

Trump to meet Shehbaz, Muslim countries' leaders to discuss Gaza
US President Donald Trump will meet leaders and officials from multiple Muslim-majority countries on Tuesday and discuss the situation in Gaza, which has been under a mounting assault from Washington's ally Israel. White House Press Secretary...

Manchester attacker was British citizen of Syrian descent, police say
Forty people were arrested, including six for assaulting police officers, at the pro-Palestinian protest in Whitehall this evening.The Met Police said officers imposed Public Order Act conditions on the protest against the interception of the Gaza...

Arrest of Syrian in Berlin Signals Europe’s Willingness To Bring Assad-Linked ‘Refugees’ to Justice
Sultan, who came to Germany about five years ago, presented himself to authorities as a refugee but continued his involvement in illegal activities and criminal networks [Damascus] On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, German authorities...

Israeli Navy Intercepts Flotilla Bound for Gaza, Detains Over 400 Activists
The Israeli Navy stopped a flotilla that tried to break through the blockade on Gaza. Officials called the effort a provocation. The interception began on Wednesday night, coinciding with Yom Kippur, and continued into Thursday. According to the...

Death of Syrian minor in Lebanese prison sparks conflicting accounts
The death of Syrian minor Muhannad Mohammed al-Ahmad (14), who had been detained for three months at Lebanon’s al-Warwar juvenile prison, has drawn outrage from rights groups amid conflicting reports over the cause of death. The medical report...

Lebanon asks Syria to cooperate on unsolved political killings
Lebanon witnessed a string of assassinations that targeted anti-Assad politicians, journalists, religious, military, and security figures [Getty] Beirut has formally asked the Syrian government to cooperate in providing information on a series of...

Three killed in Christian area of Syria amid sectarian tension
Three men were killed on Wednesday evening after being shot by masked gunmen riding a motorcycle in the village of Anaz, in the Christian-majority area of Wadi al-Nasara, west of Homs in central Syria. Local sources said Wisam Mansour and Shafiq...

Laura D. Minasyan: Bridging Cultures — Armenian, Khmer, Swedish, Russian
And yet you were drawn to distant, unexplored horizons. To go to Leningrad and study such a rare language as Khmer! What did knowledge of Khmer give a young Armenian woman? Yes, I went to apply to Leningrad University — but not for journalism, for...