Mosul’s once-thriving Old City now a grey wasteland
By AFP – Jul 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi women, who just fled their home, rest in the desert as they wait to be transported while Iraqi forces […]
IRAQ: ISIS Bomber Photographed Seconds Before Killing Herself and Her Baby
July 11, 2017 by David G. McAfee 18 Comments ISIS is losing its war against the government of Iraq, and that’s becoming more and more obvious every day. The Islamic extremist group has resorted to extremely desperate measures, including enlisting its female members to blow up themselves and their own babies. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2017/07/isis-bomber-photographed-seconds-killing-baby/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Nonreligious&utm_content=44 A female suicide bomber […]
Syrian Observatory says it has ‘confirmed information’ that Daesh chief is dead
By Reuters – Jul 11,2017 – J This file photo combination of two handout pictures released by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (left) and by Iraqi ministry of interior allegedly shows photographs taken at an unknown location of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the leader of […]
What’s Next for Mosul After It Was Liberated From ISIS
Source: Time BY Rebecca Collard / Mosul Jul 10, 2017 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced that Mosul is officially free from ISIS, despite a few dozen militants making a […]
If Baghdadi is dead, next Islamic State leader likely to be Saddam-era officer
Reuters International JUNE 23, 2017 A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the […]
Amnesty says Iraq and allies violated international law in Mosul battle
Reuters International JULY 11, 2017 Iraqi security forces walk along destroyed buildings from clashes in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (reuters_tickers) ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Amnesty International said on Tuesday it had identified a pattern of attacks by Iraqi forces and the […]
Tough road ahead, even as IS grip on Mosul and Raqqa falters
Reuters International JUL 10, 2017 Iraqi Federal Police celebrate in the Old City of Mosul. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (reuters_tickers) By Warren Strobel and Fatima Bhojani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With Islamic State all but ejected from one if its former capitals and surrounded in the other, members of a 72-nation coalition meet […]
Turkey will not tolerate Kurdish state & ‘terror havens’ on its borders – Erdogan
Published time: 9 Jul, 2017 Get short URL FILE PHOTO: Turkish forces and members of the Free Syrian Army are seen at the al Baza’a village on the outskirts of al-Bab town in Syria © Khalil Ashawi / Reuters Ankara will respond decisively to any threats on its borders, […]
Mosul becomes ‘graveyard’ for foreign extremists
By AFP – Jul 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Iraqi federal police pose for a picture with an upside down Daesh group flag in the Old City […]
Battle for Mosul: IS defeat imminent, says state TV
Source: BBC News So-called Islamic State (IS) defences in the Iraqi city of Mosul are collapsing fast and troops expect to take full control in the next few hours, state […]
Here in Iraq, Isis is being defeated – but with US policy in disarray, it doesn’t feel any safer
‘We don’t have a policy in Syria,’ one former US State Department official told me. ‘Everybody in the Middle East knows that whatever is said by the Pentagon, State Department or National Security Council lacks authority because whatever assurances they give may be contradicted within the hour by a presidential tweet or […]
The destruction of the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul is another example of the ‘culturecide’ we’ve become so used to
While lives are lost every day, it is destruction of cities and monuments that drives home the vicious nature of conflict throughout history Robert Fisk @indyvoices The al-Nuri mosque was blown up by Isis last week AP Over the years, I’ve almost lost count of the priceless treasures of art […]
Tougher fighting, more suicide attacks as Daesh hits back in Mosul
Bodies of 50 people shot by Daesh had been recovered from street in Al Zinjili By AFP – Jul 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi civilians flee the Old City […]
Iraq declares end of caliphate after capture of Mosul mosque
Source: Reuters By Khaled al-Ramahi and Maher Chmaytelli | MOSUL/ERBIL, IRAQ After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of Islamic State’s de facto […]
U.S. judge halts deportation of Iraqis nationwide
Source: Reuters By Steve Friess | DETROIT A federal judge halted late on Monday the deportation of all Iraqi nationals detained during immigration sweeps across the United States this month […]
Why It’s No Longer Possible for Any Country to Win a War
Source: Time By Yuval Noah Harari Jun 23, 2017 IDEAS Harari is the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of […]
Baghdadi death near 100 percent certain: Interfax quotes Russian senator
Source: Reuters By Christian Lowe | MOSCOW The likelihood that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed is close to 100 percent, Interfax news agency quoted the head […]
Shock and anger in Mosul after mosque destroyed
Mosul/Baghdad: “When I looked out of the window and saw the minaret was no longer there, I felt a part of me had died.” For Ahmad Saied, a 54-year-old Iraqi schoolteacher, and many others Mosul can never be the the leaning minaret that had graced his city for nearly 850 […]
ISIS blew up famous Mosul mosque
Source:CNN The United States and Iraq said ISIS blew up a historic mosque in Mosul that was the ideological heart of the terror group and the birthplace of its self-declared caliphate. ISIS, through its news agency, said US warplanes were responsible for the loss late Wednesday of the Great Mosque […]
Baghdadi ‘The Ghost’: world extremism’s low-profile boss
By AFP – Jun 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This image grab taken from a propaganda video released on July 5, 2014 by Al Furqan Media allegedly shows the leader […]