Mar 29,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen According to the UN, some 300,000 to 400,000 Iraqi civilians remain trapped in the Daesh-held Old City of Mosul. Caught in the crossfire between Daesh defenders and Iraqi government attackers, trapped families lack food, water and medical supplies. Hundreds have been killed and […]
Epigraph: We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it […]
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Mar 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi civilians flee the city of Mosul as Iraqi forces advance in their massive operation to retake Iraq’s second city from Daesh extremists on Wednesday (AFP photo) LONDON — Terrified Iraqi families fleeing fierce fighting in Mosul are drugging […]
© AFP 2017/ STR MIDDLE EAST 17.03.2017 An Iraqi MP has proposed reducing the number of widows in the country by providing financial incentives for polygamous marriages. © AFP 2017/ […]
Source: Wall Street Journal MOSUL, Iraq—Foreign Islamic State fighters are increasingly being abandoned by local militants as the group loses ground in Mosul, leaving a hardened core of extremists dominated […]
Reuters International MAR 17, 2017 – Displaced Iraqis flee their homes as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 14, 2017. Picture taken March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (reuters_tickers) By John Davison MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – After five months of intense fighting, Iraqi forces […]
Reuters International MAR 7, 2017 – Displaced Iraqis flee their homes as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (reuters_tickers) BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Elite Iraqi security forces dislodged Islamic State militants from the main government buildings in Mosul on Tuesday, their […]
Reuters International MAR 5, 2017 Iraqi Acting Finance Minister Abdul Razzak al-Essa (R) speaks during news conference at the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad, Iraq March 5, 2017. REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Britain agreed on Sunday to arrange 10 billion pounds in loans to finance […]
Reuters International MAR 5, 2017 Displaced Iraqis flee their homes, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 5, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (reuters_tickers) BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The total number of civilians displaced from Mosul has risen sharply over the past days and exceeded 200,000 […]
At one time the caliphate ruled territory with a population of five or six million people, where it sought to establish a truly Islamic State. It is this dream – or nightmare – that is now being shattered. But the groups who fought Isis may soon be fighting each other Patrick […]
Source: The Guardian The academic believes Islam and the west shouldn’t be at odds, but was banned from the US and slated in the Sun. Isis hates him, too – […]
Source: Reuters By Stephen Kalin | MOSUL, IRAQ “My dear family, please forgive me,” reads the handwritten letter discarded in the dusty halls of an Islamic State training compound in […]
Source: BBC By Wyre Davies BBC News, Northern Iraq Image copyrightAPImage captionCivilians are fleeing west Mosul amid fierce clashes between Iraqi forces and so-called Islamic State militants This weekend as […]
Source: Aljazeera Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister made a rare visit to Baghdad in an attempt to mend the kingdom’s tense relations with Iraq. Adel al-Jubeir’s surprise trip on Saturday marked […]
While US Defence Secretary James Mattis heads to Baghdad to appease Iraqis, Donald Trump merely wants his ‘war news story’, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices “The re-conquest of western Mosul begins.” Or so several headlines in the Arab press have announced. And it’s true that the Iraqi […]
Reuters International FEB 20, 2017 – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (L) receives a gift from Iraq’s Defence Minister Erfan al-Hiyali during a visit to Baghdad, Iraq February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military is not in Iraq “to seize anybody’s oil”, […]
Reuters International FEB 14, 2017 – Security members escort Iraqi teenager Laith Abbas inside a reform centre in Dohuk, Iraq, February 12, 2017. Picture taken February 12, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy DOHUK, Iraq (Reuters) – Wearing funky beads, Laith Abbas comes across as just another Iraqi […]
Reuters International FEB 13, 2017 – Parts of a bulldozer are seen at a farm in the town of Basheeqa, Iraq, February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy and Maha El Dahan QARAQOSH, Iraq/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Sami Yuhanna was making a decent living as a wheat […]
theguardian: by Emma Graham-Harrison — Khatoon Khider used to be a popular Yazidi singer. Now she’s the head of an all-women battle unit with Isis in its sights Long before Khatoon Khider took up a gun, she became famous for singing about another woman who went to war, a tragic […]
Our acts of moral courage defend America as surely as any act of violence. By PHIL KLAY FEB. 10, 2017 When his convoy was ambushed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, First Lt. Brian Chontosh ordered his Humvee driver to head straight into the oncoming machine gun fire. They punched through, landing […]