or were expelled Is more than 300 km away from Russia , which can only be reached through an EU country It houses the Russian Baltic Fleet and is the country 's only ice - free European port
Men stand near a hole in the ground as they inspect the damage after airstrikes by pro - Syrian government forces in the rebel held al - Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo , Syria February 5 , 2016 . REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail BEIRUT Tens of thousands of Syrians fledmovement.transportperson.naan intensifying Russian assault around Aleppo on Friday , and aid workers said they feared the major city could soon fall under a full government siege . Iran reported one of its generals had been killed on the front line , giving direct confirmation of the role Tehran is playing along with Moscow in what appears to be one of the most determined offensives in five years of civil war . The government assault around Aleppo , and advances in the south and northwest , helped to torpedo Geneva peace talks this week .
Although worshipers at the Riga Mosque say that volunteers for the Islamic State represent a minuscule minority within an already small minority — and that any radicalization is strongly discouraged by most of the mosque ’s few hundred active worshipers — local news outlets have played up the news , and have set nerves on edge . Those who have traveled to Syria , though exceptions , are enough to convince many of Latvia ’s politicians that the arrival of Muslim immigrants could present new security threats . “ I think that covering one ’s face in public at a time of terrorism presents a danger to society , ” said Vaira Vike - Freiberga , a former president of Latvia whose family fledmovement.transportperson.nathe country when it was taken over by the Soviet Union during World War II . “ It ’s as simple as that . ” “ Anybody could be under a veil or under a burqa , ” she said .
The files , however , do show a back - and - forth debate over the merits of releasing the Snowden email , a seemingly innocuous communication that does not appear to show an employee deeply troubled by domestic and foreign spying . The discussion centered on how NSA employees viewed the email , and how others might spin it . Less than six weeks after he sent the April 2013 email , Snowden fledmovement.transportperson.nato Hong Kong with thousands of classified government documents . He is now in Russia . “ To the extent Snowden was saying he raised his concerns internally within NSA , no rational person could read this as being anything other than a question about an unclear single page of training , ” Robert Litt , the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence , told Vice News .
GETTY Around one million migrants arrived in Germany last year The migrant , known only as Ghazia A , fledmovement.transportperson.naSyria last year along with his family . He has since resettled in Germany with his four wives and 22 of his children . One of his daughters has since moved to Saudi Arabia where she has married .
Wuhayeb asks each if he is Sunni or Shiite , and when they say Sunni , he quizzes them on how many times one bows during prayer . When they get it wrong , three of them admit to being Alawites , a Shiite offshoot sect , and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death . After Wuhayeb 's killing , ISIS killed several dozen of its own members in Anbar , including some mid - level officials , on suspicion of informing on his location , and other members fledmovement.transportperson.nato Turkey , the two intelligence officials said . They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press . Some of the suspects were shot dead in front of other ISIS fighters as a lesson , the Iraqi officials said .
In the three years since Edward Snowden landed in Moscow , his relationship with his hosts has been a source of much speculation and controversy . The American IT contractor , who worked for the CIA and NSA until he fledmovement.transportperson.naHawaii with more than a million purloined secret files , has not left Russia since he arrived at Sheremetyevo airport on 23 June 2013 , on a flight from Hong Kong . Snowden landed in Moscow with the permission of the Russian government , whose representatives he met during his sojourn in Hong Kong that lasted more than three weeks . He became so friendly with them that he actually celebrated his 30th birthday at the Russian consulate !