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Remember Iraq’s Yezidis

I recently attended a small Hill event on a beautiful day to remember a dark anniversary: Eleven years after the Islamic State began its genocide against Yezidis in Iraq, Yezidi speakers shared ...
Wherever radical Islam meets weak governance and an unarmed minority, the result is always the same: slaughter, rape, and ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Islamic State (ISIS) carried out a suicide attack in Syria’s eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, ...
Ten years ago Germans were putting balloons on lamp posts to greet a multitude of foreigners. The popular tabloid, Bild, ...
The sudden reason for the arrest of Lahur Talabany is not clear but it casts a potential shadow over the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
Asharq Al Awsat At least five people were killed and 18 others wounded in the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region in clashes after the arrest of a prominent Kurdish ...
The jihadist organisation, which lost its final stronghold in Syria in 2019, is posing a new challenge to security services, ...
No, the BBC never said ‘One isn’t a jihadist if one just kills Jews’ – though what they did say boils down to it. I wouldn’t ...
Several are currently wanted by Interpol, and investigators say that their operations extended beyond direct combat, involving transnational efforts to move weapons, money, and fighters across borders ...
In areas home to religious and ethnic minorities, Syria’s Sunni Islamist-led government is increasingly seen as a threat.
DeSantis administration’s removal of memorial crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub is ‘cruel’ and ‘callous,’ Orlando mayor says ...