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ALONG MOSULA??S FRONT LINE, DESPERATE CIVILIANS AND DUG-IN TROOPS AND FIGHTERS
The Islamic Statea??s control of Mosul and the nearby area separated families for long stretches... READ MORE›
AFTER THE ISLAMIC STATE, IRAQ AT RISK OF A NEW BATTLE FOR DISPUTED TERRITORY
He said locals saw what happened in Mosul, where Iraqi troops surrendered the city to the Islamic State... 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›
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›
'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›
BATTLE FOR MOSUL BEGINS WITH GUNFIRE AND CAR BOMBS
But the coalition is expected to encounter fierce resistance from thousands of ISIS fighters in Mosul's urban center, armed with car bombs and improvised explosive devices... 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›
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›
CALIFORNIA TRAIN CRASH COMMUTER TRAIN COLLIDES WITH TRUCK IN OXNARD
Kino, referring to the Kurdish enclave bordering Turkey whose encirclement by the Islamic State prompted American-led airstrikes that helped drive the group back... 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›
ISLAMIC STATE UNDER PRESSURE AS KURDS SEIZE SYRIAN TOWN
Since then, Kurdish forces backed by other Syrian armed groups have pursued Islamic State fighters as far their provincial stronghold of Raqqa... READ MORE›
IRAQI CITY OF MOSUL BRACES FOR LOOMING BATTLE WITH ISIS
In military circles, the Mosul offensive draws comparisons to two other cities where Iraqi forces wrested control from ISIS Ramadi and Falluja... READ MORE›
DESPERATE IRAQI YAZIDIS ARE JOINING THE EXODUS TO EUROPE
Desperate Iraqi Yazidis are joining the exodus to Europe... READ MORE›
KURDISH FORCES, BACKED BY U.S. AIRSTRIKES, LAUNCH OFFENSIVE IN IRAQ
The sudden fall of Sinjar to Islamic State militants in August 2014 devastated the Yazidi community... READ MORE›
PARIS ATTACKS SIGNAL ISIS GLOBAL ASPIRATIONS
The attacks in Paris suggest the Islamic State is capable of organizing devastating attacks in the West... READ MORE›
CITING ATROCITIES JOHN KERRY CALLS ISIS ACTIONS GENOCIDE
This in part explains why the Islamic State has uniquely targeted the Yazidi minority -- believed to number around 500,000 people in Iraq -- for sexual enslavement... READ MORE›
AFTER ISIS: KURDS AND ARABS RETURN TO OLD LIVES AND NEW TENSIONS
Elsewhere in Iraq, entire towns and villages are being abandoned by their Sunni Arab residents as Shia militias retake them from Isis... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE END OF AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
In contrast to Mr Obama's ambivalence, Mr Putin has long harboured ambitions of strengthening Russia's position in the Arab world... READ MORE›
IS SEX SLAVES RAPED FIVE TIMES A DAY
It is almost a year since thousands of Yazidis fled to Mount Sinjar, in northern Iraq, as Islamic State fighters entered their villages... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST YAZIDI TEMPLE UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN ARMENIA
The complex in Aknalich is not intended to overshadow Lalish, the most holy Yazidi temple, about 36 miles north of Mosul in northern Iraq... READ MORE›
'TEENAGER BILLIONAIRE' SAYS HE WILL 'LEARN TO DRIVE IN HIS ROLLS-ROYCE' AFTER HIS UNINSURED MASERATI WAS SEIZED BY POLICE
Soon after speaking to Cihad, Halo was put in touch with Abdullah, one of five leading Yazidi smugglers based in Duhok... READ MORE›
KERRY DECLARES ISLAMIC STATE HAS COMMITTED GENOCIDE
State Department officials said the United States has talked at the U.N... READ MORE›
AIRDROPS CALLED TOO RISKY TO HELP STARVING SYRIANS
American warplanes regularly strike Islamic State targets in Syria -- there were 34 airstrikes last week, according to the United States Central Command... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST YAZIDIS
Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis U.N... READ MORE›
DAESH USES APPS TO OPERATE SEX SLAVERY RING
Even when Daesh retreats from towns like Ramadi or Fallujah, the missing girls are nowhere to be found... READ MORE›
ISIS COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST CHRISTIANS AND OTHER MINORITIES, KERRY SAYS
In my judgment Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in territory under its control Kerry said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group... READ MORE›
'WE FEEL EACH OTHER'S SUFFERING, AND WE KNOW HOW IT IS'
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq The young women had never used a camera before fleeing their homes and the claws of Islamic State fighters... READ MORE›
IRAQ KURDS EXPEL SOME SUSPECTED ISLAMIC STATE SUPPORTERS FROM VILLAGES
Abu Muhannad denies being a member or supporter of Islamic State... READ MORE›
KERRY EXPLAINS WHY RELIGION IS RELEVANT TO U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
HOUSTON -- Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Tuesday that religious communities can play a role in achieving foreign policy goals around the world... READ MORE›
UP TO 15,000 BODIES MAY BE BURIED IN MASS GRAVES IN SYRIA AND IRAQ - SURVEY
Up to 15,000 bodies may be buried in mass graves in Syria and Iraq - survey... READ MORE›
IRAQI KURDS TAKE KEY ISLAMIC STATE CONDUIT, READY ASSAULT ON SINJAR, SCENE OF YAZIDI SLAUGHTER
Kurdish Iraqi fighters launched a long-awaited offensive to retake the strategic town of Sinjar from the Islamic State group and in the first hours of the... READ MORE›
DION ACCEPTS UN REPORT THAT CALLS DAESH ATTACKS ON YAZIDIS GENOCIDE
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, who opposed it, said Thursday that the government is now convinced that Daesh is conducting genocide against the Yazidis... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS: IS TURKEY'S 'OPEN DOOR POLICY' AN ILLUSION?
Turkey's 'end goal' is to create a safety zone in northern Syria to host a large number of refugees, analysts say... READ MORE›
KURDS CAPTURE ROAD IN PUSH TO RETAKE IRAQI TOWN OF SINJAR FROM ISIS
Sinjar was captured by the Islamic State group in August 2014 shortly after the extremists seized Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and blitzed across northern Iraq... READ MORE›
YAZIDIS FREED BY ISLAMIC STATE ENJOY BITTERSWEET HOMECOMING
AFTERMATH When Islamic State militants ordered them onto buses early on Saturday, the Yazidis thought they were being led to their execution... READ MORE›
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ISIS VOWS 'VICTORY' IN IRAQ AND SYRIA
The battles to oust the Islamic State group from strongholds in Iraq and Syria have not deterred the terror organization, according to a new report... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE SENDS CAR BOMBS AGAINST U.S.-BACKED FORCES ADVANCING ON RAQQA
The Amaq news agency, the extremist group's media arm, claimed that the Islamic State launched 120 such assaults across Syria, Iraq and Libya in October... READ MORE›
KURDISH-LED FORCE ANNOUNCES START OF OPERATION TO RECLAIM RAQQA FROM ISIS
Over the summer, Turkish forces intervened in northern Syria, targeting Islamic State militants but also acting as a curb to Kurdish territorial ambitions in the country... READ MORE›
ISIS LEADER BAGHDADI UNBOWED BY MOSUL BATTLE IN PURPORTED RECORDING
This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE LEADER, CONFIDENT ABOUT HOLDING MOSUL, CALLS FOR INVASION OF TURKEY
Mosul has a population of 1.5 million, much more than any of the other cities captured by Islamic State two years ago in Iraq and neighboring Syria... READ MORE›
RAQQA ATTACK AGAINST ISIL NEEDS TO START SOON
Tensions between the Kurds and Turkey may also be slowing operations against the Islamic State in Syria... READ MORE›
10 NEW WARS THAT COULD BE UNLEASHED AS A RESULT OF THE ONE AGAINST ISIS
5 Turkey and Syria The Turkish intervention in Syria has for now been confined to fighting the Islamic State and Kurdish forces... READ MORE›
SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR IS A MELEE OF FIGHTING FACTIONS AND ALLIES
Allies include Saudi Arabia and Turkey Enemies include Assad, Iran, Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State... READ MORE›
SENIOR IS-LEADER ADNANI 'KILLED IN SYRIA'
Islamic State holds territory in the province of Aleppo, but not in the city where rebels are fighting Syrian government forces... READ MORE›
WHY THE PENTAGON SEES RECAPTURE OF SYRIAN CITY AS TEMPLATE FOR BATTLING THE ISLAMIC STATE
Conditions have worsened in the nearby city of Aleppo, Syria's largest, as rebels and Russian-backed government forces trade attacks... READ MORE›
THE BRITISH DAIRY FARMER WHO FELL IN BATTLE AGAINST ISIS
A recording of an interview in Syria with 22-year-old Dean Carl Evans, from Reading, has been found after he died in battle last month... READ MORE›
EX-SOVIET EXILES GIVE ISLAMIC STATE VIOLENCE A RUSSIAN ACCENT
Turkish officials say the suspected attackers had ties to Islamic State and were from Russia and the ex-Soviet central Asia states of Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan... READ MORE›