Persecution of Christians

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) estimated the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL) combatant manpower to be between 20,000 to 31,500 in Iraq and Syria combined, and that was back in September, before the organization had attracted new recruits from all over the world.

Turkey could face an influx of 2-3 million more Syrian refugees if President Bashar al-Assad's forces or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents advance around Aleppo, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Nov. 18.
  

Serbia works to improve its anti-terrorism capabilities

US President Barack Obama on Sunday rejected any alliance with Bashar al-Assad against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), arguing that the Syrian ruler was illegitimate and that any such pact would backfire.
      

Iraq will need about 80,000 effective military troops to retake the terrain it lost to militants of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and restore its border with Syria, the top U.S. general said on Nov. 13.
   

The jihadist threat is the key issue facing the US and Turkey, John Bass says, stressing the importance of relations between Ankara and Washington The United States regards the threat posed by the extremist jihadists in both Iraq and Syria as the most “acute” challenge and is focusing its efforts on defeating them, the new American envoy to Ankara has told the Hürriyet Daily News, stressi

President Barack Obama wants his advisers to review the administration's Syria policy after determining it may not be possible to defeat militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) without removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, CNN reported on Nov. 13.
 

In April 2015, Armenians will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1915 massacres, which they believe amounted to genocide. It will be a climax in their efforts for the international recognition of this tragedy as genocide.

Iraqi soldiers battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) recaptured the heart of the town of Beiji, home to the country's largest oil refinery, state television and a military official said Nov. 11.
     

Kosovo vows to close Islamist corridor to Syria, Iraq

Officials say they are taking all necessary measures to interrupt any activity aimed at inciting violent extremism.

Kosovo is undertaking all measures to prevent the flow of fighters to Iraq and Syria in support of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), officials said.

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