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Yazidi Leaders Congratulate Trump on Presidential Election Victory

Leaders and activists from the Yazidi minority community in Iraq, which has largely suffered ethnic cleansing and other war crimes at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), have expressed a mixture of hope and congratulations over Donald Trump’s recent election as U.S. president.

Sinjar Mayor Mahma Khalil Qasim near the middle with scarf around his neck.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka on ISIS Thanksgiving Threat and Jihadi Game Plan

Breitbart News national security editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of the best-selling book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, appeared on Fox News to discuss the Islamic State’s threat to attack the crowded Thanksgiving Day parade with trucks, similar to the attack on pedestrians in Nice, France.

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Britain to Tell Trump: Forget Islamic State, Depose Assad Instead

Britain’s Foreign Office will spend the next three months trying to convince senior figures in Donald Trump’s team not to prioritise fighting Islamic terrorists in Syria. Since becoming president-elect Trump has reaffirmed his intention to cut support to Islamist rebels and instead

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UN: Islamic State in Mosul Deploying Child Suicide Bombers

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, feeling the pressure from the U.S.-backed Iraqi military and its allies on all sides of their de-facto capital of Mosul, Iraq, are perpetrating a “numbing” extent of civilian suffering, including hanging 66 corpses of alleged traitors, using radicalized children as suicide bombers, and using chemical weapons, reports the United Nations.

In this Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016 photo, a wounded Iraqi special forces soldier gets treatment

Virginia Man Indicted for Joining Islamic State

27-year-old Mohamad Jamal Khweis of Virginia has been indicted on charges of joining the Islamic State. Kurdish forces captured him in Iraq after he changed his mind and fled Mosul in March, making him possibly the first American captured on the battlefield charged with joining ISIS.

American Islamic State Defector: ‘I Was Not Thinking Straight’

Iraq: Christians Seek Self-Rule Following Liberation of Mosul

Some members of the Iraqi Christian minority community are seeking to establish an autonomous territory in their historical homeland in northern Iraq’s Nineveh Plain region after the city of Mosul is liberated from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the jihadist group is defeated, reports Al-Monitor.

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