Armenian Catholic priest and his father shot dead in Syria

Gunmen  shot dead an Armenian Catholic priest and his father as they were traveling in a car in northeastern Syria.  The attack was claimed by the so-called Islamic State group. Father Hovsep Bedoyan, the head of the Armenian Catholic community in the the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli near the border with Turkey, and his father, Abraham Bedoyan, were heading to the province of Deir Al-Zor when they came under attack on Monday, November 11.

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