At least 30,000 civilians have fled fighting between armed groups and rebel factions in northern Syria in the last 48 hours, according to Human Rights Watch. The US-based watchdog group made the announcement on Friday while calling on Turkey to open its border to the civilians. It also accused Turkish border guards of shooting at some of those displaced in Aleppo province as they approached the frontier. Turkey has denied the accusation. HRW said many of those who fled were residents of...
Somewhere, there is a digital archive containing the portraits of the Islamic State’s network of fighters in Europe. The image of each fighter was stored in this database months before last year’s attacks in Paris, and after each new terror strike, the group has reached into it and released the photographs. So it was on Wednesday.