Tag: Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister on Sunday condemned the Islamic State extremist group’s actions targeting Christians in territory it controls, saying they reveal the threat the jihadists pose to the minority community’s “centuries-old heritage.” The comments from Nouri al-Maliki

When U.S. troops invaded Iraq in 2003, there were at least 1.5 million Christians in Iraq. Over the last ten years, significantly in the last few months with the emergence of ISIS, that figure has dropped to about 400,000. In

Radical Islamists told Christians in Mosul, Iraq, to pay a protection tax or convert to Islam. If the people did neither they were threatened with death. The majority chose to flee the city. @HalaJaber Christians had till noon 2day 2either

Iraq’s Christian leaders have just made a desperate cry for help. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Catholic church, has issued an appeal “to all who have a living conscience in Iraq and all the world.” The situation

The terrorist group which now goes by the self-proclaimed name the Islamic State, which was formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria (ISIS), is seeing mounting support in Lebanon’s second-largest city of Tripoli, despite the lack of organized ISIS

BAGHDAD, July 18 (UPI) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria distributed leaflets to Christian leaders in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul this week, threatening violence if they don’t convert. Christians who do not accept Islam or fail

The jihadist group Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), rose to prominence in June as it swept through northern Iraq, conquering major cities like Mosul and Tikrit. One month later, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Since the jihadist terror group the Islamic State (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham–ISIS) began its onslaught on Iraq and conquered large swaths of northern Iraq, Iraqis opposed to their murderous jihadist agenda have relied on the Kurdish

BEIRUT (AP) — In a lavish ceremony, a smiling and confident President Bashar Assad was sworn in for a third seven-year term on Wednesday, praising his supporters for “defeating the dirty war” and denouncing insurgents who have “failed in trying

The jihadist terror group Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), have released a new video showcasing blonde Bosnian Muslim children, who are made to chant “Allahu Akbar” and wave the ISIS flag. The video is

In a sign that the Kurdish ethnic minority in the Middle East is increasingly closer to establishing a sovereign state, the Turkish government, a longtime opponent of the Kurdish independence movement, passed a law this week allowing peace talks with

Via the Daily Beast:  A commander of Moqtada al Sadr’s newly renamed “Peace Brigades” describes plans to reunify Iraq–with a little help from Iran. Will they fight ISIS as hard as they fought the U.S. Army? SADR CITY, Iraq —

Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview from Tel Aviv yesterday that Israel needed to be prepared to “take on Iran” in the event that international talks with the Iranian regime

(Reuters) – Iraqi politicians named a moderate Sunni Islamist as speaker of parliament on Tuesday, a long-delayed first step towards a power-sharing government urgently needed to save the state from disintegration in the face of a Sunni uprising. But after

Kurdish news outlets are reporting incidents in which ISIS is believed to have used chemical weapons against Kurdish soldiers. The Kurdish Peshmerga forces have been indispensable in containing the spread of ISIS, organizing in unprecedented numbers to fight ISIS where

Just one week ago, reports began to surface that residents of Mosul, Iraq – a town captured by the terrorist jihadi group Islamic State (formerly Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS) – had returned to normal life and were even

Via Armin Rosen at Business Insider: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has now controlled much of Iraq for over a month. The group has been prolific in its abuses even during this brief reign of cruelty:

The jihadist terror group Islamic State–formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)–has released a new video attempting to court Canadians to the cause of jihad; it stars a Canadian man named André Poulin, who was killed in battle

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s deadlocked parliament failed Sunday to overcome the deep divisions hampering the formation of a new government, making no progress on choosing new leaders who could help hold the nation together and confront the Sunni militant blitz

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Daily Mail: Gunmen Slaughter 25 Women Branded as Prostitutes in Baghdad After Storming Apartment Building At least 29 people, including 20 women, have been shot dead in Iraq in an apparent attack on a brothel. Gunmen wearing camouflage burst into two