Syria

26 May 2021, Hessen, Frankfurt_Main: An aircraft of the Belarusian airline Belavia lands at Frankfurt Airport. Many European countries have closed their airspace to the airline after Belarusian authorities had forced a Ryanair plane, on its way from Greece to Lithuania, to land in Minsk with a dissident journalist on board. Photo: Andreas Arnold/dpa.

World

MIGRATION CRISIS

EU sanctions airlines over Belarus border crisis

The Nomad Today/dpa 12/3/21

The EU has now placed penalties on a total of 183 individuals and 26 entities related to Belarus

06 November 2021, Bavaria, Seubersdorf: A general view of the ICE train passengers at the Seubersdorf station. Three people were seriously injured in a knife attack on the Passau-Hamburg ICE train on Saturday. The suspected perpetrator, a 27-year-old man, was arrested, Bavarian police announced after a large-scale operation at the Seubersdorf train station. Photo: Angelika Warmuth/dpa.

World

ATTACK

Three seriously injured in knife attack on German high-speed train

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/6/21

Security sources said the suspect last lived in Passau and that he had arrived in Germany from Syria

A veiled woman wearing a mask enters a screened-off area of the Federal Police at Frankfurt Airport from the gangway of a charter plane with two small children. In an action that was initially kept secret, the German government, in cooperation with the US Army, had taken a total of eight German female supporters of the terrorist militia "Islamic State" (IS) and their 23 children from a prison camp in Syria as part of a humanitarian operation. The women were brought to Germany via Kuwait on a charter plane, where almost all of them were immediately taken into custody. Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa

World

TERRORISM

Germany repatriates eight women suspected of joining Islamic State

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/7/21

Many of the returning women were detained upon landing, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.

A Woman in Al-Hol Camp, Syria. Photo: Y. Boechat (VOA).

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Finland

ROJ CAMP

Finland repatriated two children and their mother from Syria

The Nomad Today 7/17/21

Some Finns are not opposed to the repatriation of children, but they refuse to have their mothers repatriated

FILED - 13 June 2021, Iraq, Al-Humaydat: Members of expert teams take part in the opening of a mass grave and the exhumation of the remains of victims who were killed and buried by the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group back in 2014. More than 500 people, predominantly Shia Muslims, where executed and buried in the mass grave during an IS attack on the Badush Prison on 10 June 2014. The mass grave, which was first discovered in 2017, is located in the village of Al-Humaydat, 30 km west of the city of Mosul, a former IS stronghold in Iraq's northern Nineveh Governorate. Photo: Ismael Adnan/dpa

World

PRISON SENTENCE

German court jails mother of 5 for Islamic State membership in Syria

The Nomad Today/dpa 7/1/21

The woman was arrested in Essen in July last year, some two and a half years after returning to Germany.

World

ISLAMIST THREAT

14 detained for suspected terrorist plot in Denmark and Germany

The Nomad Today/dpa 2/12/21

"Our security authorities have once again prevented an Islamist terrorist attack," German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said.

Finland

UN WOMEN

Finland funds Syrian women's peace efforts with € 1 million

The Nomad Today 1/29/21

"Sustainable and fair peace cannot be achieved without women’s participation," the Foreign Ministry says.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto. Photo: Lauri Heikkinen/Vnk,

Finland

FOREIGN MINISTRY

Finland repatriates 6 children and 2 women from Syrian Al-Hol camp

The Nomad Today 12/20/20

About 15 Finnish children and less than 10 mothers are still interned in the camps in north-east Syria.

World

German-Syrian woman stands trial for allegedly arranging IS marriages

The Nomad Today 7/3/20

She allegedly owned two Kalashnikovs and a hand grenade.

World

Police seize record amount of 'jihadists drug'

The Nomad Today 7/1/20

The Islamic State also finances its activities by trafficking synthetic drugs largely produced in Syria.

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Finland

ASYLUM SEEKERS

Authorities postponed the arrival of 25 refugee minors until July

The Nomad Today 6/22/20

The majority of the minors in the refugee camps on the Greek islands are male and over 14 years of age.

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World

More than 1,000 people returned voluntarily to Syria from Germany

The Nomad Today 6/14/20

Because of the "persistently difficult security situation," voluntary return to Syria is not currently being promoted, according to government information.

Coronavirus

Islamic State calls Covid-19 God's punishment for foes

The Nomad Today 5/29/20

"We are pleased for this punishment of God for you," an IS militant identified as spokesman Abu Hamzah al-Quraishi said on a radio broadcast.

Finland

Government still working for children in the al-Hol camp

The Nomad Today 4/20/20

Two orphans were evacuated to Finland in December 2019.

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Finland

Ohisalo: "It is very important that EU member states support Greece"

The Nomad Today 3/4/20

Finland is currently examining the possibility of sending assistance to Greece. This could include, for example tents and blankets.

Video

Refugees at the Turkish-Greek border

The Nomad Today 3/3/20

Thousands of refugees crowd these days on the border between Turkey and Greece, trying to enter the European UNion. Turkey does not stop them, but Greece does not accept them. Video: The Nomad…

World

Thousands of asylum seekers trying to enter the EU walking from Turkey

The Nomad Today 2/29/20

The EU is preparing for a new wave of migration after Turkish authorities said they would no longer stop asylum seekers. See in this article photos and videos of the exodus.

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Finland

Finland to receive 175 asylum seekers from Syria and Afghanistan

The Nomad Today 2/27/20

The country will host primarily unaccompanied minors and single-parent families who are likely to have grounds for international protection.

Abdullah Al-Mohamed-photoby-Burak Karacaoglu

World

Syrian father invents game so that his daughter does not fear bombings

Eric Lipchis 2/19/20

Little Salwa laughs out loud every time her father asks her "plane or bomb?" Since the beginning of December, about 900,000 people have had to leave their homes in northwestern Syria.

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Finland

Finland to allocate 4 million euros to support disabled Syrian war victims

The Nomad Today 1/22/20

The UN estimates that as many as 2.8 million people suffer from some kind of disability in Syria. The number of amputees alone is estimated at more than 400,000.