News & Reports

by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – A former branch of Al Qaeda, in 2018, HTS [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham] was officially designated a terrorist organization by the US government. HTS, which [...]

By The Times – For the young Christian men and women of Damascus, Syria’s old and new regimes are the proverbial rock and the hard place. In a cafe in the east of the city on Tuesday, young women [...]

US President-elect Donald Trump says that Alina Habba, a lawyer who represented him in his various legal battles, will serve as his presidential counsellor after he returns to the White House. He [...]

By WorldTribune  – After his rebel army had taken Aleppo, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani appeared to reassure the city’s dwindling Christian community [...]

By NYT – In a region “already on fire,” analysts say, rebels’ advance toward Damascus is a barometer of the shifting power dynamics that also affect nations like Iran, Turkey, Russia [...]

By MEMRI – The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which is funded and supported by Qatar and Turkey,[1] has expressed support for the Syrian rebel factions that have taken [...]

By Anugrah Kumar – Christian Post (via AINA) – Syrian Christians in Aleppo face “grave danger” after Islamist militias took over the city, local church leaders say. The [...]

By NYT- “The Egyptian authorities don’t like to be pressured ..” Ms. Soueif said. “But .. they won’t do anything if they’re not pressured..” Laila Soueif, the British-born mother of the [...]

By Watani- Coptic Orthodox Bishop David of New York and New England delivered on 19 November the opening prayer at the inauguration session of the US Senate. Bishop David began with thanking the [...]

By The New York Times – President-elect Donald J. Trump announced on Friday that he would nominate Dr. Martin A. Makary, a Johns Hopkins University surgeon with a contrarian streak, to be [...]