Jabhat al-Nusra

Turkish anti-terror police officers in the southern province of Adana have detained a total of 11 suspected al-Nusra militants after conducting simultaneous operations across the city center to apprehend some 13 suspects. 

Some 16 people were detained on March 30 in Turkey's southeastern province of Ad?yaman over alleged links to Jabhat al-Nusra.

Detainees held by the Syrian government are dying on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said on Feb. 8. 

Russia will not stop its air strikes on Syria until armed groups, such as al-Qaeda's wing there, are defeated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Feb. 3. 

On Feb. 2, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia should stop bombing opposition forces in Syria now that U.N.-led peace talks have started. 

"Whoever has pained the prophet or has written articles in newspapers, magazines, books or produced movies in which he is offended? this is considered an act of war," imams Abdurrahim Balla and Bujar Hysa wrote in a letter sent from prison, which is being circulated on social networks.  

Muhaxheri - who sparked outrage in both  Kosovo and Albania in July, when he posted a photograph on Facebook of him allegedly beheading a young man - is one of a list of ten individuals and two organizations who has been listed as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under the US President's Executive Order 13224.

An al-Qaeda-backed militant group that seized 45 U.N. peacekeepers two weeks ago on the Golan Heights has posted a video in which the hostages, from the South Pacific nation of Fiji, say they expect to be released soon.

An American journalist held hostage in Syria by a militant group linked to al-Qaida was released on Sunday.

The release of Peter Theo Curtis, 45, had been facilitated by the Gulf emirate of Qatar. It came just days after the barbaric execution of American reporter James Foley by Islamic militants.

Albanian citizen Idajet Balliu, 24, was reported killed in fighting near the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday - the latest of ethnic Albanians who have died fighting as part of various Islamic militant organisations since the Syrian conflict started.

Interior Minister Jankulovska says hard-line Islamists returning to Europe after fighting in Syria pose a danger to the whole continent.

“Four Macedonian citizens already died in Syria, which is a strong indicator that this problem is expanding,” Jankulovska said.

“This is not a problem isolated in a single country but a problem threatening all of Europe,” she added.