NOVANEWS THE NEWS FROM THE BASES AND DAYR EL-ZOR Ziad Fadel IDLIB: Hallooz Village: A village nestled in the mountains just to the west of Jisr Al-Shughoor. This is my wife’s mother’s home town. It is totally […]
NOVANEWS Ziad Fadel This appears to be the 4th time ISIS has endeavored to enter and occupy the Dayr El-Zor Airbase. This time, they came from the north but were repelled by SAA artillery followed […]
NOVANEWS A regional human rights group on Tuesday denounced what it called Saudi intimidation, saying its website has been blocked by authorities in the conservative Gulf nation. Attempts inside Saudi Arabia to access the […]
NOVANEWS A Saudi activist and family members said Sunday that two Saudi women have been detained for six days for defying the kingdom’s driving ban, according to the Associated Press (AP). A Saudi woman […]
NOVANEWS Saudi authorities extended the detention of two women’s rights activists, one of whom tried to drive into the kingdom in defiance of a ban, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, a key […]
NOVANEWS Saudi authorities on Monday severed the hand of a Yemeni national convicted of repeated theft, under the medieval interpretation of Islamic law enforced in Saudi Arabia. A court had ordered the amputation of Ibrahim […]
NOVANEWS Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children, the military say. Pakistani officials say the attack is now over, with all of the attackers […]
NOVANEWS Two Saudis were beheaded on Tuesday for drug trafficking and murder, official media reported, bringing to 82 the number of executions this year. The sentence against Abdulrahman bin Bakheit al-Lugmani was carried out in […]
NOVANEWS Saddam Hussein At least 2,700 people, mostly soldiers, are missing as a result of attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in Iraq, the Iraqi human rights ministry said […]
NOVANEWS The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Monday released pictures of the execution of 13 men described as “anti-jihadist” tribal fighters near the northern city of Tikrit. Three pictures published […]