Persecution of Christians

US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to London on Jan. 22 to host with his British counterpart a meeting of members of the coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
      

Israel said on Jan. 18 it had cracked the first Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) cell on its soil, made up of seven Arab citizens who would be prosecuted on charges of planning attacks in the Jewish state and communicating with the insurgent group in Syria.
   

A South Korean has gone missing in Turkey near the border with Syria, a foreign ministry official said Saturday, following reports that the man had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
      
"The man disappeared on January 10 after he left a hotel" in the southern Turkish town of Kilis near the border with Syria, the official told AFP.
      

A South Korean has gone missing in Turkey near the border with Syria, a foreign ministry official said on Jan. 17, following reports that the man had joined the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group.

"The man disappeared on January 10 after he left a hotel" in the southern Turkish town of Kilis near the border with Syria, the official told AFP.

Turkey's police sounds a new alarm about ISIL, noting that 3,000 people linked to the jihadists are a potential threat to the country There are around 3,000 people linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Turkey, a police intelligence report has alleged, raising a red alert over the possible future actions of "sleeping cells" of the jihadist group, sources have

Norway issued a red notice and international arrest warrant for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-connected spouse of the Sultanahmet suicide bomber Diana Ramazova in July 2014, the Norwegian prosecutor in the investigation has told daily Hürriyet.

Serbia expresses "full solidarity" with Nigeria

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs extended on Friday its deepest condolences to the federal government and people of Nigeria.

The condolences were sent "especially to families of the late and displaced people from the city of Baga."

BELGRADE - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia extended on Friday its deepest condolences to the federal government and people of Nigeria, particularly the families of the late and displaced people from the city of Baga.

Jihadists have executed 17 men in recent days in areas they control in eastern and northern Syria to avenge a string of assassinations targeting their fighters, a monitor said Jan. 16.
      

The woman from Russia's Daghestan Republic who allegedly executed a suicide bombing attack in central Istanbul on Jan. 6 was the wife of a Norwegian extremist of Chechen origin, with whom she spent three months in Istanbul and passed the Syrian border.