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ISIS Plants Land Mines In Christian Civilian Homes, Ancient Ruins Across Iraq, Syria

ISIS Plants Land Mines In Christian Civilian Homes, Ancient Ruins Across Iraq, Syria

When Fatima returned to her home in Khabur in northeastern Syria last week, she found herself eye level with a sign that read, “Property of the Islamic State.” The militant group was pushed out of the Assyrian Christian-majority town by Kurdish and Syrian militias last month, but returning residents have been greeted with grim reminders […]

ISIS Is Now Using CHEMICAL Weapons

ISIS Is Now Using CHEMICAL Weapons

Islamic State fighters have been firing chemical weapons at Kurdish troops in Syria and Iraq. The Conflict Armament Research (CAR) group and Sahan Research said the jihadis had targeted Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga with a weapon filled with a chemical agent near Mosul Dam on June 21 or 22. The UK-based organisations also documented two such […]

115 killed and 170 people injured in ISIS car bomb attackin Iraq as people celebrated the end of Ramadan

115 killed and 170 people injured in ISIS car bomb attackin Iraq as people celebrated the end of Ramadan

ISIS suicide bombers have killed 115 men, women and children as they gathered in a marketplace in eastern Iraq to mark the end of the Islamic holy month. The extremists drove a truck loaded with explosives into the town of Khan Beni Saad on Friday evening, before they detonated the bombs and turned what should […]

Raped, beaten and sold – Girls tell horrific story of abuse under Islamic State

Raped, beaten and sold – Girls tell horrific story of abuse under Islamic State

Three young Yazidi women have escaped from sex slavery in the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group and travelled to London, where they told their horrific stories. The three girls are fragile, beautiful and very scared. They won’t show their faces to the camera because, they say, they still have friends and family being […]

Syrian children paint life in Saddam’s Kurdistan prison

Syrian children paint life in Saddam’s Kurdistan prison

In a dimly lit room with high ceilings and no furniture, the brightly coloured paints, spattered onto Soleen Smael’s T-shirt and jeans, look out of place. She is describing the murals that she and other children have painted onto the walls of the refugee camp they live in since they fled Syria with their families […]

Pictures show the massacre of 770 Iraq soildiers by ISIS: WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT

Pictures show the massacre of 770 Iraq soildiers by ISIS: WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT

Gruesome: Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers were rounded up by ISIS militants in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit in June 2014 (pictured), before they were shot dead in bloody mass executions The bloody aftermath of Islamic State’s mass execution of 770 Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit last year was so vast, it could be seen from space.It […]

Khaleel al-Dakhi the man who risks his life rescuing kidnapped women from ISIS

Khaleel al-Dakhi the man who risks his life rescuing kidnapped women from ISIS

A lawyer named Khaleel al-Dakhi tells Olivia Goldhill why he isn’t afraid to rescue women and children from the unimaginable horrors of the Islamic State. During the siege of Mount Sinjar last August, thousands of men were brutally murdered over a matter of weeks. But amid the slaughter, the Islamic State of Iraq and the […]

45 ISIS fighters die after eating ‘poisoned’ iftar meal

45 ISIS fighters die after eating ‘poisoned’ iftar meal

Iraqi media reported on Tuesday that 45 Islamic State fighters died after eating a Ramadan fast-breaking meal in the city of Mosul in Iraq. Citing the spokesman of the Kurdish Democratic Party, reports said that it was unclear if it was a case of deliberate poisoning or food poisoning. According to the Kurdish party spokesman, […]

Iraqi warplane accidentally bombs Baghdad

Iraqi warplane accidentally bombs Baghdad

At least 11 people have been killed after an Iraqi warplane accidentally dropped a bomb on Baghdad because of a “technical problem”. The bomb, which fell from a Sukhoi Su-25 jet, exploded in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital, according to the AFP news agency, which cited security and medical officials. The jet had […]

Scores killed in Iraqi army raids in Anbar province

Scores killed in Iraqi army raids in Anbar province

At least 73 people have been killed in Iraqi government air strikes and artillery fire in the the western Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, sources told Al Jazeera. An air strike on a sports field in Ramadi shortly after midnight on Sunday killed at least 50 people and left more than 30 people injured. […]

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