Syria regime retakes key town outside capital
Syrian troops backed by Shia jihadists from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah retook a key town and nine surrounding villages outside Damascus from rebels on Thursday, a monitor said. Pro-regime fighters used clashes between rival rebel factions Jaish al-Islam and Faylaq al-Rahman as an opportunity to retake the town of Deir al-Assafir, the Syrian Observatory […]
Pope Francis holds Islam blameless for terrorism
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 19, 2016 – Pope Francis reiterated in an interview this week his stance that Muslims are not to blame for Islamic extremism. “I don’t think that there is a fear of Islam as such but of ISIS and its war of conquest, which is partly drawn from Islam,” the pope told La […]