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A facility of French industrial cement supplier Lafarge, in Brooklyn, New York, on November 15, 2021. (Ed Jones/AFP)
November 4, 2025, 12:52 pm
French cement maker Lafarge goes on trial on charges of financing jihadists in Syria
Unprecedented case alleges millions given in payments to Islamic State and al-Nusra Front in 2013-2014; former executives could face up to 10 years in prison
By Reuters
Illustrative: Police officers of Germany's Federal Police patrol a popular shopping street in Berlin, October 24, 2020. (STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)
October 6, 2021, 12:59 pm
Germany raids Islamic money-laundering network accused of sending cash to Syria
Report says hawala network suspected of transferring over $116 million in profits from drug trafficking and other illegal businesses; some of it may have funded militant groups
By AP
This 2015 image shows Nusra Front fighters standing on their vehicles and waving their group's flags as they tour the streets of Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib province, Syria (Al-Nusra Front Twitter page via AP)
June 22, 2020, 5:47 pm
Al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria detains former commander who defected
Jamal Zeina split from group once known as Nusra Front earlier this year to set up a new hardline organization
By AP
FILE - In this June 16, 2014. file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)
January 25, 2020, 6:10 pm
French jihadist gets 22 years in prison for recruiting Islamists to Syria
Mourad Fares found guilty of enlisting youths to Islamic State, leading al-Nusra Front terrorist cell
By Anne-Sophie LASSERRE
Leader of Norway's populist Progress party Siv Jensen addresses the media in Oslo, Norway on January 20, 2020. (Fredrik Varfjell / NTB Scanpix / AFP)
January 20, 2020, 7:52 pm
Norway populist party quits government over return of jihadist’s spouse
Progress Party rejects repatriation on humanitarian grounds of woman who was married to Islamic State fighter; PM loses majority but remains in power
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
File: An undated photo of fighters from al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the al-Nusra Front, marching toward the northern village of al-Ais in Aleppo province. (Al-Nusra Front via AP)
June 2, 2019, 4:00 pm
Arab Israeli woman charged with joining terror group in Syria
22-year-old accused of traveling to war-torn country to die as a martyr for the al-Nusra Front out of extremist ideology
By Judah Ari Gross
An image from Talal Derki's documentary 'Of Fathers and Sons' (YouTube screenshot)
November 17, 2018, 12:34 pm
New film ‘Of Fathers and Sons’ is a bleak look at children training for jihad
After spending over two years with a family of committed Islamists in Syria, filmmaker Talal Derki says the experience has left him shaken and scarred
By Jocelyne ZABLIT
Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, center, is driven out of the immigration center in Antakya, Turkey, October 24, 2018. (Yosuke Mizuno/Kyodo News via AP)
October 25, 2018, 11:46 am
Freed from Syria, Japanese reporter happy to go home after 3 years in ‘hell’
Jumpei Yasuda recounts al-Qaeda captivity, where he wasn’t allowed to bathe for 8 months, says he’s uncertain how to catch up with a changing world
By Mari Yamaguchi
File: An undated photo of fighters from al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the al-Nusra Front, marching toward the northern village of al-Ais in Aleppo province. (Al-Nusra Front via AP)
October 18, 2018, 3:07 pm
Two Arab Israelis indicted for trying to join Syrian jihadists
The pair allegedly flew to Istanbul in March 2016 seeking training from Islamic State and Nusra Front, intending to return to Israel and commit terror attacks
By ToI Staff
UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura speaks on September 4, 2018 in Geneva (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
September 7, 2018, 9:33 pm
UN envoy proposes rebel pullback from Syria’s Idlib
Staffan de Mistura also calls for evacuation corridors to allow civilians to voluntarily leave the war zone, under UN monitoring
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and US President Donald Trump during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Danang, Vietnam, November 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
June 28, 2018, 11:28 am
Trump will demand of Putin a total Iranian exit from Syria — report
Diplomat tells Arabic newspaper US policy doesn’t oppose Assad remaining in power, but okays Israeli strikes on Iran’s military assets in the country
By Stuart Winer
Syrian government forces walk down a destroyed street at the entrance of the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk on the southern outskirts of Damascus on May 21, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)
May 21, 2018, 11:28 pm
Palestinian camp Yarmouk, back in Assad hands, gutted by years of war
Refugee camp was scene of heavy battles as sides fought over capital; 2014 photo drew comparison to ghetto during World War II
By AFP
In this September 11, 2001 file photo, as seen from the New Jersey Turnpike near Kearny, New Jersey, smoke billows from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York after airplanes flown by Al-Qaeda terrorists crashed into both towers. (AP Photo/Gene Boyars, File)
April 20, 2018, 5:13 am
US: German jihadist tied to 9/11 attacks caught in Syria
Pentagon confirms US-backed forces captured al-Qaeda operative who helped recruit terrorists for attacks on New York, Washington
By AFP
Mohammed Haydar Zammar leaves a mosque in Germany on Oct. 3, 2001. (Knut Mueller/Der Spiegel via AP)
April 19, 2018, 1:47 am
Kurdish commander claims German jihadist tied to 9/11 attacks caught in Syria
Pentagon looking into reports that al-Qaeda recruiter Mohammed Haydar Zammar was detained by separatist forces
By AFP
Saleh Al-Hamwi, one of the founders of Al Qaeda's Nusra Front (now called Jaish al-Fatih). He was expelled from the group mid-2015. (Youtube)
February 11, 2018, 4:53 pm
Former Qaeda leader in Syria ‘welcomes’ Israeli airstrikes
Saleh Al-Hamwi tweets rare public support for Jerusalem, but contends Iran succeeded in creating deterrence over Syrian skies
By Dov Lieber
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