Daesh executes 6 hours after kidnapping them near Mosul
Daesh executed six people including two pro-government fighters hours after kidnapping them in an ambush south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported. Captain Abdul Khaliq Al-Aifan from the Rapid Response Force told the news agency: “Daesh militants disguised in military uniform have erected a fake checkpoint on the road between […]
iflix and NBCUniversal team up to offer iflix users a huge slate of everyone’s favourite TV shows and movies
iflix (www.iflix.com), the world’s leading Internet TV service for emerging markets, offering subscribers unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more, today announced it has entered into major multi-year content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal (NBCU) to add a huge selection of the studio’s most popular and critically acclaimed titles to iflix’s extensive library. […]
U.S. Diplomats ‘Shouldn’t Have Walked Out’ of Uganda Inauguration
Recently, I watched with dismay as two American diplomats walked out on the inaugural address of a respected African leader who continues to make a major contribution to our shared objectives in the region and who has been a steadfast ally in the battle against global jihadism. Other African leaders attending the ceremony were visibly […]
ISIS Pays Recruiters $10 000 Per Person: United Nations
The Islamic State group is paying supporters up to $10 000 for each person that they recruit to wage jihad in Syria and Iraq, UN experts says after a visit to Belgium, one of the main countries of origin for so-called foreign fighters. Elzbieta Karska, who chairs a UN group studying the issue, said IS […]
Parliamentary report finds former PM and 35 officials responsible for Mosul’s fall to ISIL
An Iraqi parliamentary committee says that former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and other officials were to blame for allowing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to overrun Mosul last year, and has called for them to face trial. The committee, which presented the conclusion of its investigation to parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi […]
Raping Women Who Are Not Muslims Is Halal, Says Islamic State
Islamic State has made rape a central part of its religious doctrine with members told the Koran ‘condones and encourages’ attacking women if they are not Muslims, it was claimed today. The chilling development came as a 12-year-old Yazidi rape victim in Iraq told how her attacker insisted that what he was doing was not […]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for deadly Iraq attacks
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed at least 57 people near the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba. More than 80 people were injured in Monday’s attacks, which happened in predominantly Shia areas in Diyala province. The deadliest attack occurred in the town of […]
ISIS executes 19 women for refusing to practice sex with its fighters, says Kurdish official
Media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, Said Mimousini, said on Monday, that ISIS executed 19 women in Mosul, attributing the cause to refusing the practice of the so-called sexual jihad. Mimousini said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “ISIS executed 19 women in the city of Mosul during the past two days,” claiming […]
Iraq is rushing to digitize its national library under the threat of ISIS
The dimly-lit, dust-caked stacks of the Baghdad National Library hide a treasure of the ages: crinkled, yellowing papers holding the true stories of sultans and kings; imperialists and socialists; occupation and liberation; war and peace. These are the original chronicles of Iraq’s rich and tumultuous history — and now librarians and academics in Baghdad are […]
‘The ISIS Gun Is a Penis Extension’: Jihad Is Now Considered Sexy
‘This is the new rock and roll; jihad is sexy. The kid who was not very good-looking now looks good holding a gun. He can get a bride now, he’s powerful.’ Speaking about Islamist extremism creating jihadi fighters, former radical Alyas Karmani, now a peace activist, says the West must wake up to the psychology […]
