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A Yazidi boy who escaped from a military training camp run by the Islamic State has shared how the jihadi organization is brainwashing and training young boys, forcing them to convert to Islam and training them to become killing machines.

Russia vetoed a French-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution on Saturday that would have demanded an end to air strikes and military flights over Syria's city of Aleppo, while a rival Russian draft text failed to get a minimum nine votes in favor.

Converting from Islam to Christianity could cost someone his or her life in this Middle East country, but on Oct. 2, God proved Himself faithful when He created a dust storm and “blocked the road” against people who were trying to kill Christians.

Russia said on Friday that a draft U.N. resolution for a truce in the Syrian city of Aleppo was unacceptable, as Moscow faced growing international pressure to stop a devastating bombardment of the city backed by Russian air power.

Syrian families who escaped ISIS' so-called capital of Raqqa, Syria, have shared the horrors they were exposed to under the terrorist group's leadership, including witnessing militants carry out countless public amputations, some of them against children.

A Christian girl in Pakistan was tortured and gang-raped by a group of Muslim men because she refused to convert to Islam, a horrific new report has revealed.

It may take weeks or months, but Aleppo is likely to fall to Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power and the most lethal bombardment in nearly six years of war.

On a road in northern Syria, a rebel fighter signals to a group of men, women and children traipsing across barren fields to put their hands in the air. He pats them down and inspects their phones, trying to determine whether they are Islamic State sympathizers.

A bomb claimed by Islamic State at a Syria-Turkey border crossing killed at least 25 people, most of them foreign-backed Syrian rebels, and wounded dozens more on Thursday, witnesses said.

The Islamic State terrorist group has released a disturbing new propaganda video showing its fighters carrying out yet another mass execution by beheading Syrian rebels and placing their heads on spears.

ISIS had been preparing for an apocalyptic battle in a Syrian town that they believe would signal the end of the world.

The sheer number of Muslim refugees from Syria compared to Christians are staggering. We are talking about a ratio of 185 Muslims to 1 Christian refugee.

Authorities in Turkey last night arrested the five Muslim nationalists convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the torture and murder of three Christians in southeast Turkey in 2007.

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on Wednesday and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse.

Under a white canopy on a forested hillside in the late summer sunshine, old friends and several adversaries brushed shoulders with one another on Friday as they mourned the death of Israeli statesman and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres.

Israeli and Palestinian leaders shook hands during a brief chat and U.S. President Barack Obama gently reminded them of the "unfinished business of peace" at the funeral Friday of Shimon Peres, the last of a generation of Israel's founding fathers.

Major powers must unite to stop the carnage in Syria as the collapse of U.S.-Russian peace efforts would be a setback for United Nations operations aimed at saving lives, the top U.N. aid official told Reuters on Friday.

A 16-year-old Christian boy in Pakistan is facing the death penalty after after a photo of the Kaaba in Mecca, one of the holiest sites in Islam, appeared on his Facebook profile.

The fastest growing church in the world is found in a country most people probably won’t expect.

Iran on Monday released a Canadian-Iranian academic who was detained in Tehran in June, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said, a week after the two countries began talks on a potential restoration of diplomatic ties broken off four years ago.

A prominent Jordanian Christian writer was fatally shot Sunday in Amman while entering the courthouse to face trial.

New York Representative Peter King: ISIS gas attack shows Obama's failure

Chiad, a 26-year old Chechen, had moved his wife and three children to Raqqa, Syria, to join the fight to create an Islamic State across Syria and Iraq. He embraced the ethnic cleansing that was intended to rid the region of Christians, Jews, non-Sunni Muslims and Yazidis. In contrast Dr. Jan Kizihan, a German of Kurdish background is a trauma expert who traveled to Iraq to help victims of ISIS.

A mob of drunken Muslims stormed the homes of Christians in Pakistan, beating men, women and children they deemed to be "ritually impure" and insulting the name of Jesus Christ.

16 year old Christian Pakistan boy incarcerated for liking an "inappropriate" photograph on Facebook