Rasa - Shaykh Abdullah Katamtu referred to the role of the extremist fatwas propagated by 13- and 14th-century Takfiri cleric, Taqiuddin Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, in the spread of extremist throughout the Islamic world.

Rasa - Fighting was raging on Friday in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Syrian capital Damascus, pitting a united Palestinian force against the ISIS extremist militia, amid fears for the plight of the civilians trapped there.