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Kids do as they see not as told. So what do you do if you are a child still living in war-torn Syria?
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.
A prison van believed to be carrying Aine Davis arrives at the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, as the alleged British member of the Islamic State group attends a pre-trial hearing accused of terror offences. Davis was part of a group of four known as the Beatles because of their British accents, which murdered hostages while fighting with jihadists in Syria. IMAGES
Nur-Sultan, Mar 31 (EFE), (Camera: Kulpash Konyrova).- "It was an infinitely long four years that I want to forget," Sabinella Ayazbayeva said about the time she spent in the hands of Islamic State before her return to Kazakhstan from Syria as part of the government's Operation Zhusan, which has overseen the repatriation of more than 600 Kazakhs.internet, and all the information was there, and little by little he started to say that the Islam that was preached in the mosques was not correct. I had my doubts, but he always found answers and dispelled them."SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (VERTICAL) "He started to say that if I didn't go with him, he would take our children, that he wouldn't give me time to do anything, because he would go with them (to Syria) and I was afraid of that, because I didn't want to lose my children."SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (VERTICAL) "When we crossed the border, we were separated, my husband went to one place and we went to another. I thought I would never see him again, I didn't know what was going to happen to me and the children, I was very worried."SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) “It's very difficult to remember life in Syria now, because it was very difficult. For me it was four long years, but it was as if I had lived there for 30 years, all my life.”SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) “We saw bombings, dead bodies, houses in ruins, shootings, we saw it all with our own eyes and it is very difficult to put words to what we felt.”SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) “They gave us an allowance of 50 dollars per adult and 28 dollars per child, but that was not enough to live on. We had our own money and we used it there.”SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) “My goal now is to stop those who want to leave now, as I did at the time, to warn them and show them my mistakes, without hiding anything. That wasn't life, it was a long nightmare.”SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) ”I would like to bury all these memories far away and for a long time, and never remember them again.”ERLAN KARIN "The debate was long, there were both supporters and opponents of this operation, including state institutions, because as in other countries there was a fear that the repatriated citizens could bring radical ideologies into society."ALIM SHAUMETOV "The children are the ones who have suffered the most from this. I received the first group when they arrived from Syria, I carried them in my arms. I received them over the course of a month and I saw their faces, those children’s frightened eyes. That's why I think the children have suffered the most.”
Thousands of invaluable ancient manuscripts were under threat from the so-called Islamic State Iraq's largest Christian city, Qaraqosh, after the city came under attack from the terrorist militant group in August 2014. Luckily, one daring Dominican priest managed to save countless historical documents. Father Najeeb Michael fled with the manuscripts alongside thousands of other Christians. However, after taking the books to relative safety in the nearby city of Mosul, Father Michaeel was forced to flee once more, this time to Erbil, just days before the arrival of IS fighters to Mosul.
Women living in Haji Ali, a group of villages numbering about 40,000 people in northern Iraq about 40 miles south of Mosul, have taken up arms to protect the area from Islamic State militants. IS-controlled villages are only about a mile away, so women have learned how to use weapons and have started guarding their families' houses at night, in order to help their men, which rotate in and out of the frontline. Villagers fear that IS could sneak across the Tigris river and into the village under the cover of night, and are complaining that locals don't have enough weapons to defend themselves.
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