Hannah Brockhaus | Catholic News Agency
Feb 7, 2018
Colosseum to be lit red for persecuted Christians
The Roman Colosseum will be illuminated by red lights later this month to draw attention to the persecution of Christians around the...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 31, 2018
Watch List 2018
Global Overview For Europeans who have chafed at the embrace of U.S. hyper-power, resented being relegated to the part of...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 7, 2018
Journalists arrested to prevent coverage of Iraqi Kurdistan protests
After dozens of journalists were prevented from covering opposition protests in recent days in Iraqi Kurdistan and opposition TV...
Foreign Policy
Jan 2, 2018
The Lost Children of ISIS
In July 2017, video of a naked child found in the ruins of Mosul circulated widely online. The boy, pointing to an Iraqi flag on one of...
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Dec 28, 2017
Call for Paper Proposals: Special Issue of Genocide Studies International (12.2)
Genocide & The Kurds The Kurdish-inhabited lands of the Middle East - spanning territories in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey as well as...
Human Rights Watch
Dec 27, 2017
HRW REPORT Iraq: Yezidi Fighters Allegedly Execute Civilians
Investigate, Prosecute Armed Group Abuses (Beirut) – Yezidi fighters in Iraq allegedly forcibly disappeared and killed 52 civilians from...
The Atlantic
Dec 22, 2017
How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion
Those who went into exile have creatively adapted their rituals. Those who stayed have been just as innovative. By Cathy Otten BEHZANE,...
Geoffrey Johnston | The Whig
Dec 21, 2017
Genocide Survivors Celebrate Christmas in Iraq
When ISIS arose in 2014, the jihadist force swept across northern Iraq and carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign of Christian villages...
PBS
Dec 18, 2017
Yazidi women struggle to return to daily life after enduring Islamic State brutality
Yazidi women, who were sold as sex slaves by Islamic State militants, are now returning to their families from formerly ISIS-controlled...
Reporters without Borders 1
Nov 22, 2017
RSF calls for renewed efforts for John Cantlie’s release after five years of captivity
Five years since British journalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international...
Genocide Watch
Nov 2, 2017
Iraq not equipped to try Islamic State's atrocities in Mosul: U.N.
Iraq is not capable of trying atrocities committed by Islamic State during the battle for Mosul so it must find other routes to justice...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 31, 2017
Alarming violence against journalists in northern Iraq
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns yesterday’s murder of a Kurdistan TV cameraman near Kirkuk and the previous day’s violence...
