Jürgen Todenhöfer 18 hrs · Dear friends, are you allowed to speak openly? The destruction of Mosul was also a terror. Over 20.000 civilians were killed by the west and his allies alone in Mosul. But only 2.000 terrorists. For every terrorist, 10 civilians. 10:1. That’s shame number 1. SHAME […]
The crass response of the leaders of the US-led coalition who orchestrated the attack on west Mosul shows that we are back in the Vietnam era when American officers were happy to volunteer that they were destroying populated areas in order to save them Patrick Cockburn Erbil @indyworld Northern Iraq is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By AFP – Jun 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES An Iraqi soldier frisks a displaced Iraqi man at a temporary camp in the compound of the closed Nineveh International Hotel in Mosul on Friday which was recovered by Iraqi troops from the Daesh group earlier in the year (AFP photo) […]
The fight against Islamic State in western Mosul is chaotic and brutal, with up to 200,000 civilians still trapped in the IS-held Old Town. DER SPIEGEL visited the front in Iraq to see how the battle is progressing. By Christoph Reuter Jacob Russel A girl walks through the destroyed streets […]
By AFP – Apr 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqis, who have fled the city of Mosul due to the ongoing fighting between government forces and Daesh, wait to receive […]
Reuters International APR 4, 2017 – An Iraqi man bathes in a sulfur pond at Hammam al-Alil city south of Mosul, Iraq April 3, 2017. Picture taken April 3, 2017. […]
Iraq At the Battle of Mosul, the anti-IS alliance does not pay much attention to civilians. An eyewitness account Bombing is easier by Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer When I visited the Islamic state together with my son two years ago, we had a security guarantee from the “Caliph” as the self-proclaimed […]
Dear friends, 2 years after our visit to the “is” we were back in Mosul. Taking great risks my son Freddy was making a video. Exclusive Images, which you have never seen. They show how absurd the “Liberation Wars on terror” are. Who wants to defeat terrorism must not be […]
By AFP – Apr 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi people who fled their homes stand in a queue to receive aid in the city of Mosul, Iraq, on […]
Endgames: inside Iraq In an exclusive dispatch on the climax of the battle for Mosul, Patrick Cockburn speaks to one of 400,000 desperate civilians for whom the besieged city has become like an underground prison Patrick Cockburn Irbil, Iraq @indyworld Isolated in their houses and short of food and water, […]
More can be done for residents of Mosul not to become victims of bombs targeting Isis – and more should be done to report with candour Patrick Cockburn Irbil, Iraq @indyworld Standing high […]
Reuters International MAR 30, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: Free Syrian Army fighters gesture as Turkish military vehicles drive in the Syrian rebel-held town of al-Rai while heading towards the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, Syria January 9, 2017. To match Analysis MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-WAR REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo(reuters_tickers) By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) […]
By Reuters – Mar 29,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi people shelter from the rain on the street near the city of Mosul, Iraq, on March 23 (Reuters photo) MOSUL — Iraqi special forces and police fought the Daesh terror group militants to edge closer to Al Nuri […]
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 […]