
Two Turkish soldiers are missing in Syria, the Turkish army said late on Tuesday. “Contact was lost with two of our soldiers,” the Turkish army said in a statement. Earlier the Amaq news agency affiliated with ISIL claimed that it had taken the pair hostage in northern Syria.

Terrorists of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group are killing residents of Iraqi Mosul refusing to put rocket launchers on the roofs of their houses, Ravina Shamdasani, a United Nations human rights spokeswoman, said Tuesday. Other civilian victims of ISIL reportedly suffered for allegedly ...