Friday, May 17, 2024
ADVT 
International

Austrian girls leave for Syria to 'fight for Islam'

Darpan News Desk IANS, 24 Apr, 2014 03:47 PM
    Two Austrian girls who are searched by the international police said in a letter that they went to Syria to "fight for Islam", police said Thursday.
     
    Interpol is conducting an international search for these two teenagers, aged 15 and 16 respectively, whom are suspected of having joined the civil war in Syria, Xinhua quoted the Austrian police as saying.
     
    "We have gone to Syria to fight for Islam. We will meet in paradise," the missing girls noted in two identical letters they left behind, police said.
     
    Authorities believe they were tricked into traveling to Syria to fight for the rebels.
     
    Both girls are from Bosnian families who immigrated to Austria and are believed to have flown to the Turkish city of Adana, close to the northwestern border of Syria. 

    MORE International ARTICLES

    Over 100 teenage girls abducted in Nigeria

    Over 100 teenage girls abducted in Nigeria
    More than 100 teenage girls were abducted Monday in northeastern Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram members, local sources and police said.

    Over 100 teenage girls abducted in Nigeria

    Ukraine crisis amplifies need for defense cooperation: NATO

    Ukraine crisis amplifies need for defense cooperation: NATO
    NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Tuesday said that the Ukraine crisis has amplified the need to strengthen cooperation between NATO, the European Union and other partners.

    Ukraine crisis amplifies need for defense cooperation: NATO

    Miss America Nina Davuluri to join White House Easter Egg Roll

    Miss America Nina Davuluri to join White House Easter Egg Roll
    Nina Davuluri, the first Indian American and second Asian American to be chosen as Miss America, will be one of the readers on Storytime Stage at this year's White House Easter Egg Roll.

    Miss America Nina Davuluri to join White House Easter Egg Roll

    Afghan Drawdown: New conflict or back-door occupation?

    Afghan Drawdown: New conflict or back-door occupation?
    When, in mid-1945, the allied armies advancing across Western Europe were ordered to halt to enable the marauding Soviet forces perform the final denouement of the Second World War by capturing Berlin, it sowed the seeds of the Cold War that lasted almost half-a-century and whose present-day ramifications are there for all to see.

    Afghan Drawdown: New conflict or back-door occupation?

    Abdullah Abdullah leads in Afghan presidential election

    Abdullah Abdullah leads in Afghan presidential election
    Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah was leading in the partial results, the country's Independent Election Commission (IEC) chairman announced Sunday.

    Abdullah Abdullah leads in Afghan presidential election

    Search for missing Malaysian plane remains fruitless

    Search for missing Malaysian plane remains fruitless
    A dozen aircraft and 14 ships Sunday continued the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane but the efforts remained fruitless even on the 37th day of MH370 going off the radar on a Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight.

    Search for missing Malaysian plane remains fruitless