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Egypt’s Anti-Terror Law Stirs Criticism for Enshrining Repression

  The new law sets a broad definition of terrorism, stipulating stiffer prison terms for terror-related offences.   It also adds provisions that widen the power of...

Islamic State Gets Mustard Gas

  The sources told Journal reporter Adam Entous that the mustard gas was probably obtained in Syria. Bashar Assad ’s government admitted in 2013 to...

Aleppo Bishop Warns Christians Could Vanish from Syria

  Thousands of Christians in western areas of Syria have fled their homes after Islamic State (IS) advances that led to the disappearance last week...

Rights Groups Criticize Egypt’s New Anti-Terror Law

  In a separate statement, the International Commission of Jurists condemned the law as a "repressive move that would erode the rule of law and...

Churches in the West Trying to Throw Lifeline to Iraqi and Syrian Christians

    In ways, the boy is a metaphor for the larger Christian community in Iraq—100,000-plus souls still wondering what will happen to them, more than...

ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape

  In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to...

Kidnapped Priest Killed, Chopped Up By ISIS

  Dozens of kidnapped Arab Christians have been ransomed, tortured, beheaded and killed over the past year, including a priest who was chopped into pieces,...

Obama Ignored Intel Warnings, Willfully Backed Terror Groups That Became ISIL: Ex-DIA Chief Flynn

  Flynn said that, despite warnings from top officials, President Barack Obama’s decision to arm and train what were said to be moderates battling Syrian...

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