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By Michael Kelly – Catholic News Service A Chaldean Catholic archbishop from southern Iraq has warned that the country’s beleaguered Christian community still feels pessimistic about [...]

By Miriam Diez Bosch – Aleteia –  “It’s been an authentic genocide, according to the definition in international law.” “For me, it has been a very intense experience [...]

By Lolita Brayman – Foreign Policy – The Trump administration has decided to deport Iraqi Christians back to their dangerous homeland, and the timing is more than a little suspicious. The [...]

By Mark Chamoun – thepavlovictoday (via AINA) – It has now been a year since a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry determined that ISIS’ violence against the [...]

John Simpson – The Times UK – A British Islamic State suicide bomber who targeted coalition forces in Mosul was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee paid £1 million in compensation by the [...]

By Luma Simms – The Federalist (via AINA) – The time since President Trump’s executive order temporarily halting some Middle Eastern immigration has been distressing for me as [...]

By The Times – Iraqi forces trying to recapture Mosul have been stymied by Islamic State child snipers lying in wait in a “city of tunnels” that are wide enough for cars and extend for [...]

By Clifford Smith – The American Spectator – The next U.S. president will have a difficult job in the Middle East. The Obama administration’s failure to appreciate the long-term [...]

By Paul Moss – BBC – As so-called Islamic State militants are driven out of Mosul, Paul Moss reports on the continuing plight of the Yazidis, the Iraqi religious group who the United [...]

By Congressman Brad Sherman – Dear Friend, As a member of the Congressional Caucus on Religious Minorities in the Middle East, and the International Religious Freedom Caucus, I have been [...]