In Kurdish-protected and internationally-organized refugee camps throughout Iraq and Syria, Christians, Yazidis, and Muslim Kurds live a tentative life in which many have lost their entire families and have no sense of when they will be able to return to
On November 24 ISIS blew up St. George’s Church and a nunnery in Mosul, thereby continuing the string of churches destroyed since the terror group took control of Mosul in June. According to Rudaw.net, the destruction has included not only
Facebook failed to notify authorities of a message from one of Lee Rigby’s killers in which he threatened to kill a soldier. Michael Adebowale used the site to contact another extremist, discussing his plans five months before carrying out the
(Reuters) – Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are drawing up plans to break Islamic State’s siege of Sinjar mountain, where hundreds of minority Yazidis remain stranded months after fleeing their homes. Seeking to regain territory and repair pride in his
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com After swallowing Crimea, Russia goes after Abkhazia and South Ossetia Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel fired by President Obama Iran nuclear deal collapses, forcing another seven months of talks After swallowing Crimea, Russia goes after
Universities will be forced to ban hate preachers under new rules issued by the Home Secretary. The announcement,
Islamic State jihadists have kidnapped 78 family members of Iraq’s defense minister, reports Kurdish media network Rudaw. Ismat Rajab, a Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official in the Mosul area, told Rudaw on Sunday that the Islamic State (IS, also known
President Obama has quietly issued an order to allow U.S. forces in Afghanistan to continue some limited combat operations in 2015, after their planned end on Dec. 31. “Mr. Obama’s order allows American forces to carry out missions against
I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but firing Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is probably the wrong thing for President Barack Obama to do. Hagel should never have been appointed in the first place, much less confirmed. (That
At least two Britons are among around 15 Westerners fighting in Syria alongside Kurdish guerrillas against the Islamic State group (IS), according to British media. The Observer newspaper reported that Jamie Read, from North Lanarkshire in Scotland, and James Hughes,
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State group focused their offensive Sunday on the city of Ramadi, backed by Sunni tribal fighters that the U.S. plans to arm. Authorities in the city implemented a 24-hour curfew as Iraqi
Theresa May will today warn that a Jihadi attack on the UK is “inevitable” as fanatics who have been “militarised” by Islamic State return from Iraq and Syria.
A French jihadist sentenced to seven years in prison for traveling to Syria to wage jihad told the court he eventually returned to France because he could not quit smoking, a practice banned by many jihadist groups, including the Islamic
A Sacramento church hosted an early Thanksgiving dinner for dozens of refugees who fled Iraq from fear of ISIS. One refugee, Bassil Mahid, said he is still afraid. He told a local news reporter, “[It’s] very hard to live.”
LONDON (Reuters) – One of London’s busiest railway stations, Charing Cross, was evacuated on Sunday after a fire caused by a suspected electrical fault, the British Transport Police (BTP) said. The incident generated a lot of traffic on social media,
In a lengthy piece at The Hill this weekend, Amie Parnes takes a look at “What Hillary allies fear the most.” Such analyses are always to be taken with a grain of salt, since the default assumption must be that the
There may be as many as 2,000 Brits currently fighting with ISIS, a Muslim Labour MP has claimed. His estimate, based on his experience as a Member of Parliament for the predominantly Muslim constituency of Birmingham Perry Barr, is roughly
Women belonging to Iraq’s Yazidi minority, who follow a religion that is neither Christian nor Muslim, have borne much of the worst of the horrors to which Islamic State terrorists subject so-called “infidels.” Turned into sex slaves for and sold
Technological advances and the leaks by Edward Snowden have meant that the ability of British intelligence officers to effectively monitor jihadist suspects is at a ten year low, according to Britain’s most senior anti-terrorism policeman. He described his officers at
The government is secretly being run by a senior civil servant, according to claims by Michael Gove’s ex aide Dominic Cummings. Sir Jeremy Haywood, who was Tony Blair’s principle private secretary between 1999 and 2003 is said to have Prime
BAGHDAD, Nov. 21 (UPI) — The next wave of 1,500 extra American troops to train and advise Iraqi forces in their continuing battle against the Islamic State will be sent abroad within the next few weeks, says the Pentagon. They’re
(Reuters) – An Islamic State leader has been killed in an air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, residents and a local medical source said on Thursday. Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni, whom the sources described as the radical militant
Three Muslim men laughed in court yesterday as they were accused of plotting to behead a member of the public before Remembrance Sunday. Cousins Nadir Sayed, 21, and Yousaf Sayed, 19, along with friend Haseeb Hamayoon, 27, smirked as the
Speaking to German newspaper Der Spiegel, a former FBI agent and security expert warned that the Islamic State’s success on social media has helped strengthen the numbers of the organization. Former FBI agent and CEO of The Soufan Group Ali Soufan
The ability to gauge the Islamic State’s strength and movements as well as the casualties the jihadist group has incurred has been hampered by a gap in CIA intelligence, reports the Los Angeles Times. According to the LATimes, “The intelligence
