Persecution of Christians

Spanish police arrested nine people in the Catalonia region on Wednesday suspected of links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, authorities said, the latest such raids as European nations seek to stop jihadist recruitment.

Syria said Tuesday it is ready to offer Palestinians its firepower to support their battle with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a refugee camp devastated by clashes and aerial attacks.
     

The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to Syria's Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp as residents described fleeing in terror after the arrival of jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
      

Malaysia was accused April 7 of waging an assault on civil rights as parliament passed a tough anti-terrorism law aimed at countering Islamic militancy.
      

Iraq has exhumed the remains of 47 people believed to have been massacred by jihadists from mass graves in Tikrit, the human rights ministry's spokesman said April 7.
      
"The number of remains that were exhumed so far is 47, and they were found in 11 mass graves," Kamel Amin told AFP, adding that the number is expected to rise.
      

Seven foreign nationals accused of recruiting members for extremist Islamic groups and propagating their ideas have been banned from returning to Romania, AFP has reported.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents blew up an 80-year-old church in Syria's northeastern province of Hassaka on Easter Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said. 

A Turkish man who is accused of joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has told court in a landmark case that he went to Syria not to fight, but "to live in a place governed under Sharia law."

The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office filed a court case in Ankara April 4 against Musa Gökta? for allegedly joining a terrorist group in Syria, according to Anadolu Agency.

Are the reasons financial or religious fanaticism-induced? Whatever the cause, 25,000 foreigners have joined the ranks of ISIS, fighting alongside Jihadi John and the rest of the jihadists that perpetrate crimes against humanity on a daily basis.

According to a UN report, this is the largest number of foreign fighters in any modern conflict.

Tunisia on April 2 accused Turkey of facilitating the transit of fighters bound for neighbouring Syria and Iraq, where thousands of its citizens have joined the ranks of jihadist groups.