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SYRIAN AND IRAQI REFUGEES FLEEING IS FACE NEGLECT AND DEATH IN GREECE'S CAMPS
There are thousands of refugees and migrants that live in tents and warehouses and army barracks and their conditions don't necessarily meet humanitarian standards, she said... READ MORE›
ESCAPED YAZIDI SEX SLAVE, 23, SAYS SHE NEVER KNEW ABOUT TRAFFICKING UNTIL HER ORDEAL STARTED
A Yazidi woman imprisoned and raped by Islamic State fighters said she had no idea about the scourge of human trafficking until she found herself enslaved... READ MORE›
IRAQI LEADER PREDICTS IS COLLAPSE IN MOSUL
To the west, Iraqi forces under cover of coalition air strikes retook the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in Anbar province... READ MORE›
FEARS OF SECTARIAN TENSION AS PMUS CLOSE IN ON TAL AFAR
PMU fighters captured the road linking Tal Afar to Sinjar, west of Mosul, and linked up with Kurdish forces there, according to Iraqi security officials... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS FLEE TOWNS AROUND MOSUL
Islamic State still controls the road between Mosul and Tal Afar, he said in comments on the Popular Mobilisation website... READ MORE›
IRAQ MILITIAS 'CUT OFF IS ACCESS TO CITY'
IS militants still control the section of the road between Tal Afar and Mosul... READ MORE›
IRAQI MILITIAMEN SEVER ISIL'S KEY SUPPLY LINE TO SYRIA
Shia fighters take main route linking Tal Afar to Sinjar, blocking ISIL's crucial supply route from Mosul into Raqqa... READ MORE›
THE YAZIDI PEOPLE: WHO ARE THEY AND WHY ARE THEY ON THE RUN?
Both Islamic and Christian traditions show the devil as a fallen angel, which leads many people to believe the Yazidis are devil worshippers... READ MORE›
FRENCH PRIEST HELPS EXPOSE IS GROUP'S YAZIDI GENOCIDE
It was a chance encounter with one of them in a barber's shop in Brussels that set Father Desbois on their trail... READ MORE›
BATTLE FOR MOSUL: INVESTIGATORS EXAMINE MASS GRAVE SITE
Iraq's Joint Operations Command said on Monday that 100 headless bodies had been found in the Hammam al-Alil area... READ MORE›
TURKEY WARNS SHIA MILITIAS FIGHTING ISIL FOR IRAQI TOWN
Erdogan said Turkish forces would step in if the militias unleash terror on Tal Afar, which they are preparing to seize from ISIL fighters... READ MORE›
TURKISH MILITARY OPERATION IN SYRIA TO TARGET RAQQA, SAYS ERDOGAN
The operation dubbed Euphrates Shield has another purpose to halt the westward advance of the Syrian YPG Kurdish militia... READ MORE›
YAZIDI WOMEN WHO FLED ISLAMIC STATE SLAVERY RECEIVE EU'S SAKHAROV PRIZE
Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar have been honoured with the Sakharov Prize for their advocacy for women's rights... READ MORE›
EU AWARDS SAKHAROV HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE TO YAZIDI WOMEN WHO ESCAPED IS GROUP
Murad has also called for the recognition of the massacre of Yazidis as genocide... READ MORE›
ISIS KILLS DOZENS IN STRONGHOLDS AROUND MOSUL TO QUELL UPRISING
Anti-isis resistance group plans to rise up in mosul, say residents... READ MORE›
FOUR WAYS IS IS FIGHTING BACK
Sources say 2,000 Kurdish fighters known as the Peshmerga were pulled back from the Mosul offensive, to help bring the situation in Kirkuk back under control... READ MORE›
BATTLE FOR MOSUL: IRAQI ARMY MAKING ADVANCE
For two days ISIL forced Iraqi security forces to declare a state of emergency in the northern city of Kirkuk... READ MORE›
'WE USUALLY CRY WHEN WE WATCH THE NEWS'
Mosul residents confirm that enslaved Yazidis are still inside the city, where conditions for civilians are rapidly deteriorating... READ MORE›
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ISIS ENSHRINES A THEOLOGY OF RAPE
Continue reading the main story Calculated Conquest The Islamic State's formal introduction of systematic sexual slavery dates to Aug... READ MORE›
WHY IS THE WORLD IGNORING THE REVOLUTIONARY KURDS IN SYRIA?
There are a thousand differences between what happened in Spain in 1936 and what is happening in Rojava, the three largely Kurdish provinces of northern Syria, today... READ MORE›
ISIS PUSHES BIRTH CONTROL TO MAINTAIN SEX-SLAVE SUPPLY
In its own manual, the Islamic State outlines the abstinence method as one option... READ MORE›
ISIS SOLDIERS TOLD TO RAPE WOMEN 'TO MAKE THEM MUSLIM'
ISIS uses Islam as a justification for its brutality against Yazidis, but religious scholars insist the group has hijacked Islam... denigrated, desecrated it... READ MORE›
AMID SYRIAN CHAOS, IRAN'S GAME PLAN EMERGES
It was taken by militias along with Iraqi forces on 22 September, delivering another blow to the terrorist group and an important boost to Iran's ambitions... READ MORE›
LEADER OF ISLAMIC STATE USED AMERICAN HOSTAGE AS SEXUAL SLAVE
Systematic abuse Mueller's mistreatment is the latest evidence of the Islamic State's systematic abuse of women on a significant scale... READ MORE›
KURDISH FORCES RETAKE STRATEGIC HIGHWAY IN IRAQS NORTH FROM ISIS
Blasting Kurdish music, some pesh merga fighters got out of their vehicles and danced... READ MORE›
'AMERICANS SAVED MY LIFE': FORMER REFUGEES FROM IRAQ PERPLEXED BY US FEARS
Sindi is perplexed by the fears raised by American politicians over the vetting of Syrian refugees... READ MORE›
FINGER-POINTING BUTFEW ANSWERS AFTERSYRIA SOLUTION FAILS
WASHINGTON By any measure President Obama's effort to train a Syrian opposition army to fight the Islamic State on the ground has been an abysmal failure... READ MORE›
THE ISLAMIC STATE'S HORRIFYING PRACTICE OF SEX SLAVERY, EXPLAINED
The islamic state's horrifying practice of sex slavery explained... READ MORE›
'TURKISH AIRSTRIKES KILLED MY SIBLINGS WHILE I FOUGHT ISIL'
When we fight in Turkey, we are PKK, when we fight in Syria, we are YPG, said the guerrilla guarding the PKK cemetery near Zergaly... READ MORE›
KURDISH FIGHTERS RETAKE IRAQI CITY OF SINJAR FROM ISIS
And pesh merga officials said, they intercepted radio traffic from the Islamic State fighters suggesting that their forces were deserting... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S DETERMINATION TO DEFEAT ISIL IS A MYTH
The worlds determination to defeat Isil is a myth... READ MORE›
WYATT ROY CAUGHT IN DEADLY FIREFIGHT BETWEEN PESHMERGA AND IS IN IRAQ
Former federal assistant minister Wyatt Roy has been caught up in a frontline confrontation between Islamic State and Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq... READ MORE›
WHY I DESERTED ISIS RATHER THAN TAKE PART IN EXECUTIONS, BEHEADINGS AND RAPE
Hamza says that in Raqqa trainees like him were sent to watch public executions I attended three executions in Raqqa and others in Fallujah... READ MORE›
HUMILIATION REPLACES FEAR FOR THE WOMEN KIDNAPPED BY ISIS
For Amsha, it was not the killing of her husband nor the imprisonment that broke her, but the marriage she would be forced to succumb to... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE DEFECTIONS MOUNT AS DEATH TOLL RISES, U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS
Top military officials estimate that the campaign has killed 23,000 Islamic State fighters, raising their death toll by 3,000 since mid-October... READ MORE›
ESCAPED ISIS SEX SLAVE TELLS CONGRESS OF HORRORS
Murad also called on the Islamic community around the world to do more to denounce ISIS... READ MORE›
YAZIDIS LEFT TO THEIR FATE IN IRAQ
When the Yazidis do come back from Isil they have nothing... READ MORE›
IF THE RAF CAN'T DROP FOOD TO MADAYA IN SYRIA, WE SHOULDN'T BOTHER HAVING AN AIR FORCE AT ALL
And if the RAF want any advice on how to deal with Assad's spectacularly unsuccessful air defences, they should ask their Israeli counterparts... READ MORE›
WALKING WITH MIGRANTS: THE DIARY OF A JOURNEY FROM GREECE TO BERLIN
3pm, Piraeus I have met an Iraqi family who are pretending to be Syrian... READ MORE›
E.U. LEADER PROPOSES PLAN TO REDISTRIBUTE MIGRANTS ACROSS CONTINENT
Almost all asylum seekers prefer to go to Western European nations such as Germany, where wages are high and public support is generous... READ MORE›
IRAQI KURDISTAN PRESIDENT: TIME HAS COME TO REDRAW MIDDLE EAST BOUNDARIES
The political map of northern Iraq has changed drastically in the 18 months since Islamic State overran Iraq's second city, Mosul... READ MORE›
IRAQI KURDS IN OFFENSIVE TO RETAKE ISIL-HELD TOWN
Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.-led air campaign, launched an assault Thursday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar... READ MORE›
US MILITARY CAMPAIGN TAKES TOLL ON ISIS CASH FLOW
WASHINGTON -- American airstrikes have killed 25,000 Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria and incinerated millions of dollars plundered by the militants, according to Pentagon officials... READ MORE›
ISIS SNIPER IS DESTROYED BY BRITISH MISSILE DURING ONE OF 17 DEADLY RAF BOMBING RAIDS IN IRAQ
On Sunday November 15, 36 hours after ISIS struck in Paris, an RAF Reaper drone destroyed a terrorist car in Northern Iraq with a Hellfire missile... READ MORE›
KURDISH FORCES SEIZE IRAQ'S SINJAR TOWN FROM ISLAMIC STATE
Campaigns to contain Islamic State have moved slowly in Iraq, where sectarian divisions and corruption have hindered military progress... READ MORE›
AMERICAN ISIS FIGHTER WHO 'FOUND IT HARD' RETURNS TO FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES
Although U.S. prosecutors have charged at least 85 people nationwide with Islamic State-related crimes, Khweis is the first American to have been captured on the battlefield... READ MORE›
RECAPTURE OF RAMADI IS A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE
That is the absence of a moderate Sunni political alternative or cohesive fighting force in either Iraq or Syria... READ MORE›
THE NATURE OF THIS WAR: OUR VIEW
French President Francois Hollande called Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris an act of war... READ MORE›
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KURDISH WOMEN FIGHTERS BATTLE ISLAMIC STATE WITH MACHINEGUNS AND SONGS
On Thursday afternoon, women fighters were lined up on a dirt berm, their weapons pointed at the frontline with Islamic State about 700 meters away... READ MORE›
FAMILIES FLEE MOSUL FIGHTING AS REPORTS OF ISIL MASSACRES EMERGE
The United Nations believes that in a worst case scenario, one million people could be displaced... READ MORE›
ANIMAL THERAPY COMFORTS TRAUMATISED IRAQI CHILDREN
Animals can help the children psychologically various research has shown this, and it is certainly applicable to children affected by the wars in Iraq and Syria... READ MORE›
IRAQI WOMAN BATTLES ISIL, ONE STITCH AT A TIME
Former journalist starts business to meet rising demand for military uniforms for Kurdish soldiers in northern Iraq... READ MORE›
ISIL 'DRIVEN OUT' FROM TURKEY-SYRIA BORDER
After crossing the border on August 24, Turkish-backed Syrian rebels captured the border town of Jarablus from ISIL in 14 hours... READ MORE›
FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS TAKING AIM AT ISLAMIC STATE WHILE THEY STILL CAN
The uptick in foreigners heading to the Iraq's Kurdish region has put authorities in a bind, with increasing scrutiny of volunteers and the equipment they bring... READ MORE›
IRAQI ARMY POISED FOR FALLUJAH ASSAULT AGAINST ISIL
Peshmerga offensive The ISIL fighters were also under pressure from Kurdish fighters east of their northern Iraqi stronghold Mosul and from US-backed Kurdish-led fighters in Syria... READ MORE›
AMERICAN ISIS FIGHTER A 'GOLD MINE' FOR US INTELLIGENCE
The documents contain information on thousands of purported ISIS members, including some Americans... READ MORE›
'IT WAS A REALLY HARD LIFE'
Swedish Teen Rescued From ISIS in Iraq 'It Was a Really Hard Life'... READ MORE›
DON'T PANIC: THE BRUSSELS ATTACKS SHOW ISIL IS LOSING ITS WAR ON TERROR IN THE WEST
Don't panic the Brussels attacks show Isil is losing its war on terror in the West... READ MORE›
AMERICAN ISLAMIC STATE DEFECTOR: I FOLLOWED A GIRL INTO THE CALIPHATE
In Istanbul, he said he met an Iraqi woman from Mosul whose sister had been married to an Isil fighter and who arranged transportation to Syria... READ MORE›
AMERICAN ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTER SURRENDERS TO KURDISH TROOPS IN IRAQ
He is being held and questioned in Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq... READ MORE›