ISIS Spokesman Calls for Attacks on Arab Nations
Source: The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Photo Young men taking selfies atop the ruins of Nebi Yunus shrine in east Mosul, Iraq, after it was liberated from the Islamic […]
Facing death in Iraq, European extremists will not get help from home
By AFP – Jan 24,2018 -JORDAN TIMES PARIS — European nations rarely miss a chance to slam the use of the death penalty by others, but they have largely turned […]
The ISIS regime you’ve never seen
By Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry April 13, 2018 | A member of the Iraqi forces walks past a mural bearing the logo of the Islamic State group in a tunnel […]
A 10-Minute Trial, a Death Sentence: Iraqi Justice for ISIS Suspects
Source: The New York Times By MARGARET COKER and FALIH HASSAN BAGHDAD — The 42-year-old housewife had two minutes to defend herself against charges of supporting the Islamic State. Amina Hassan, a Turkish woman in a flowing black abaya, told the Iraqi judge that she and her family had entered Syria and Iraq […]
‘I paid $90,000 to free my family from IS’
Source: BBC News By Lizzie Porter Sharya, Iraq Image copyrightLEILA MOLANA-ALLENImage captionKhalid Taalo Khudhur al-Ali with nephews and nieces who also made it to safety in August 2014 Khalid Taalo Khudhur al-Ali fled with his wife and children as Islamic State militants attacked their town in Iraq in 2014, but 19 […]
The ISIS Files
Source: The New York Times By Rukmini Callimachi Photographs by Ivor Prickett April 4, 2018 On five trips to battle-scarred Iraq, journalists for The New York Times scoured old Islamic State offices, […]
Saudi Crown Prince: Iran’s Supreme Leader ‘Makes Hitler Look Good’
Source: The Atlantic BY JEFFREY GOLDBERG This much, at least, can be said for Mohammed bin Salman, the putatively reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia: He has made all the right […]
2 British IS members say hostage beheadings were a ‘mistake’
Source: Associated Press By SARAH EL DEEB and ANDREA ROSA KOBANI, Syria (AP) — Two British militants believed to have been part of an Islamic State group cell notorious for […]
Nigeria Holds Peace Talks With Jihadist Group
Source: Wall Street Journal By Drew Hinshaw,Joe Parkinson and Gbenga Akingbule DAPCHI, Nigeria—Nigeria said it is holding peace talks with a local Islamic State faction, in a test of whether a secular […]
Freed Filipino priest says airstrikes routed IS extremists
Source: Associated Press By JIM GOMEZ MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino Roman Catholic priest taken hostage last year by Islamic State group-linked militants recounted Friday how military airstrikes helped […]
Bloody scenes of life under IS haunt Mosul returnees
Source: Reuters By Raya Jalabi MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – For residents of the Old City, returning to Mosul is an exercise in trying to forget. Moayad stands in front of […]
Iraq holding more than 19,000 because of IS, militant ties
Source: Associated Press By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SUSANNAH GEORGE BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of connections to the Islamic State group or […]
Canada Struggles as It Opens Its Arms to Victims of ISIS
Source: The Washington Post By CATHERINE PORTER CALGARY, Alberta — As leader of one of Canada’s largest refugee agencies, Fariborz Birjandian, a refugee himself, has years of experience welcoming the world’s […]
After Documenting Nazi Crimes, A French Priest Exposes ISIS Attacks On Yazidis
Source: NPR BY ELEANOR BEARDSLEY Patrick Desbois, a Roman Catholic priest, has spent the last 15 years investigating and uncovering the details of Nazi massacres across Eastern Europe and Russia, crimes […]
Cubs of the Caliphate: rehabilitating Islamic State’s child fighters
Source: Reuters BY Raya Jalabi RAWANGA CAMP, Iraq (Reuters) – While children who have been through war typically draw devastating pictures of the violence they have suffered, few show themselves […]
Why I’m calling for a national ban on the terms Isis and Islamic State
Source: Independent The primary weapon of a terrorist organisation is to hijack, divide and poison communities. With every non-Muslim that begins to fear Islam, the ‘so-called’ Islamic State becomes stronger BY Emily […]
Raised by ISIS, Returned to Chechnya: ‘These Children Saw Terrible Things’
Source: The New York Times By ANDREW E. KRAMER Belant Zulgayeva walking with her grandsons in the village of Dachu-Borzoi, outside Grozny, Russia. CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times GROZNY, Russia […]
Turkish women sentenced to death in Iraq for IS links
Source: BBC News An Iraqi court has sentenced at least 15 Turkish women to death by hanging, after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group (IS). Some […]
Iraq says reconstruction after war on Daesh to cost $88 billion
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Feb 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Participants walk past brochures of previous funds collected by the International Islamic Relief Organisation (IIRO), during the Kuwait International Conference for Reconstruction of Iraq on Monday, in Kuwait City (AFP photo) KUWAIT — Rebuilding Iraq after three years of […]
Families of captive French jihadis sue to bring them home
Source: Associated Press By LORI HINNANT PARIS (AP) — Six families of French jihadis captured during Islamic State’s retreat filed a complaint Wednesday demanding that the government bring them home, […]