Qamishli

Islam Maytat thought marrying an Afghan-British businessman was her ticket to a new life as a fashionista in London. Instead she became a widow living under terrorist rule in Syria.

The toll in a massive bomb attack today in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria has risen to 44, state media said.

At least nine people were killed and more than 25 injured when explosions struck three restaurants in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Wednesday, a monitoring group said.

The body of a young German woman killed in Syria fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State (IS) group was today transferred to the Turkish side of the border ahead of burial in Germany, reports said.

The kidnapping of nearly 100 Assyrian Christians by Islamic State militants in Syria has prompted terrified families to flee their homes, activists said on Wednesday, as Washington vowed to defeat the group.

Islam Maytat thought marrying an Afghan-British businessman was her ticket to a new life as a fashionista in London. Instead she became a widow living under terrorist rule in Syria.

The toll in a massive bomb attack today in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria has risen to 44, state media said.

At least nine people were killed and more than 25 injured when explosions struck three restaurants in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Wednesday, a monitoring group said.

The body of a young German woman killed in Syria fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State (IS) group was today transferred to the Turkish side of the border ahead of burial in Germany, reports said.

The kidnapping of nearly 100 Assyrian Christians by Islamic State militants in Syria has prompted terrified families to flee their homes, activists said on Wednesday, as Washington vowed to defeat the group.