The Future of the Yazidis in Iraq
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 [...]
12 killed in attack ‘by Al-Shabaab gunmen targeting Kenyan Christians’
By Abigail Frymann Rouch – World Watch Monitor – Twelve people have been killed in an attack in north-east Kenya believed to have been carried out by the Somali Islamist group [...]
Horrific ISIS Atrocity Of Christian Children As All Hell Breaks Loose In The Shrinking Caliphate
By Yochanan Visser – Western Journalism – With Kurdish and Iraqi forces slowly closing in on the city of Mosul in Iraq and after the unexpected rapid victory by the Free Syrian Army and [...]
ISIL Prepares for ‘Apocalyptic’ Battle to Hold Dabiq, Syria
By World Tribune – Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has sent 800 additional jihadists to defend the Syrian town of Dabiq, which holds more ideological than military importance for [...]
Jordanian Figure Nahed Hattar Assassinated outside Jordanian Court
By Jadaliyya – On the morning of Sunday 25 September 2016, a gunman shot Jordanian writer and opposition figure Nahed Hattar outside of the Jordanian Palace of Justice. At the [...]
Genocide and Persecution: What’s Next for Iraq’s Christians?
By Matt Hadro – Catholic.org (via AINA) – “Together, we will advocate for the Christian, Yazidi, and other communities in Northern Iraq that they may return to their homes on the [...]
My Boy,3, was Brainwashed to Kill for ISIS
The Sunday Times – By the time he was 11, Ahmed could use an AK-47, move like a soldier in battle and — most importantly — build a suicide vest that could make him a martyr. In the Isis [...]
Christianity Belongs in the Middle East
By Prince Hassan of Jordan and Ed Kessler – The Telegraph – Christianity has been part of the essential fabric of the Middle East for 2,000 years. Far from being a western import as [...]
How Do Trump’s Conspiracy Theories Go Over in the Middle East? Dangerously.
By Michael Wahid Hanna and Daniel Benaimuag – In November 2015, a cartoon in Al-Ahram, an Egyptian state-owned newspaper, depicted an Islamic State ogre with “Made in America” emblazoned on [...]
ISIS Says it Killed Coptic Christian Priest in Egypt For ‘Fighting Islam’
By Egyptian Streets – A snapshot from a video released on Twitter by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis on August 28, 2014. In a statement claiming responsibility, the ISIS-affiliated Ansar Bait [...]
