Syria’s 3.5 million Kurds live in the northern and eastern part of the country that they call Rojava. The new regime in Damascus has been trying to get the Kurdish militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces to allow themselves to be integrated into the national army, which worries many Kurds who fear what will […]
US Abandons Its Kurdish Ally in Syria
The Kurds in both Syria and Iraq were our closest allies in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS). After ISIS had been defeated, the Kurdish armed force in Syria — the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — continued to fight remnants of ISIS, and also guarded camps containing some 50,000 ISIS members and their family […]
Syria: Muslims murder Christian goldsmith after he refuses to pay ‘protection money’
“Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29) […]
Syria: Islamic State’s religious police burn liquor store, prosecute those who violate Islamic law
Virtually every politician in the Western world has assured us with supreme confidence that the Islamic State (ISIS) has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam. That is now taken for granted everywhere. The only ones who haven’t gotten the message are the ISIS jihadis themselves. “Islamic State revives religious police in northeast Syria,” by […]