Frankrike slår ner på radikalisering av blivande jihadister i Syrien
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Urgent measures to prevent young people from going to wage jihad in Syria are to be unveiled by the government in Paris amid fears that its nationals were among the captors of four French hostages.
The measures include a plan to stop minors leaving France without parental consent, increased surveillance of Islamist websites, and a system to encourage parents to signal suspicious behaviour in their children.
Following the release on Saturday of four French journalists held in Syria for 10 months, the foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, revealed that some of their jailers had spoken French, apparently as a native language.
Melkitisk patriark fördömer attacker på katolska institutioner i Syrien
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The head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church lamented recent bomb attacks on an Armenian Catholic school and a Melkite parish in Syria.
“What is the point of all this carnage tantamount to a war of extermination?” said Patriarch Gregory III Laham, according to a report from Aid to the Church in Need.
“These attacks on our schools, children, churches and homes are criminal attacks with the aim of intimidating Christians who find themselves increasingly targeted,” he added. “Where are the United Nations and the European Union? Do you want to kill this nation?”