WASHINGTON- Nayla Mohammed was sitting in her suburban Washington apartment last year when she learned that a group of Islamic State (IS) militants went on a killing rampage in her hometown of Kobani in northern Syria.”I read on Facebook that a group o…
MAKHMOUR, IRAQ- VOA’S Sharon Behn and Ali Javanmardi traveled to Makhmour, to the last Peshmerga base in the frontline against Islamic State (IS). The town and surrounding villages were retaken from IS after a bloody two-month battle in 2014, and Makhm…
UNITED NATIONS, March 14 — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned a terrorist attack in the Turkish capital of Ankara, which reportedly killed and wounded dozens of people earlier in the day, China’s Xinhu news agency reported.”The secre…
Turkey pointed Monday to two Kurdish rebels — a man and a woman — as likely responsible for the deadly suicide car bombing in Ankara that killed 37 people and wounded another 125.After visiting the wounded at an Ankara hospital, Turkish Prime Ministe…
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA- Mohamed Khweis’s parents were awakened Monday morning by a VOA reporter and cameraman at the family’s townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia.The newspeople told them something they never expected to hear: their son was a member of the …
Indonesia has detained 14 people, including several children, as they allegedly tried to travel to Syria, police said, where hundreds of their countrymen have joined extremist groups like the Islamic State (IS) group. The Indonesians were stopped Sunda…
A nationalist, anti-immigrant party has won seats in three German regional elections, a result seen as a major rebuke to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open immigration policy.The 3-year-old Alternative for Deutschland party, or AfD, won representation in …
A large explosion ripped through the main square in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, Sunday, killing at least 34 people.Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said 125 people were being treated at various hospitals in Ankara. Nineteen of them were in a cr…
PARIS, March 13 — French President Francois Hollande said Saturday that the EU must not grant Turkey any concessions on human rights or visa waiver in exchange for guarantees to stem the flow of migrants to Europe.”There cannot be any concessions on t…
