Human Rights Watch
Aug 24, 2017
Middle East on a Roll to Repeal 'Marry the Rapist' Laws
In recent weeks, the Tunisian, Jordanian, and Lebanese parliaments have repealed provisions in their penal codes that allowed rapists to...
New York Times 1
Aug 17, 2017
For a Yazidi Woman, Justice for ISIS Crimes Is Still Elusive
Iraqi Yazidis who escaped the Islamic State from Sinjar enteing Dohuk Province, in Iraqi Kurdistan, from Syria in 2014. Kurdish fighters...
21st Century Wilberforce Initiative 11
Aug 15, 2017
The Unliberated Liberated in Iraq
During a trip to northern Iraq last week, I was reminded of the plight that the religious and ethnic minorities face three years since...
Nick Cumming-Bruce | The New York Times
Aug 8, 2017
U.N. Warns of New Wave of Displaced Iraqis as Fight Against ISIS Continues
A group of people resting last month after fleeing the area of Mosul’s Old City still controlled by the Islamic State. Nine months of...
Marco Rubio | The Daily Caller
Aug 4, 2017
The U.S. Must Act On The Genocide Of Iraq’s Christians
Iraqis attend the first Palm Sunday procession in the burnt out main church of the Christian city of Qaraqosh since Iraqi forces retook...
New York Times 1
Aug 1, 2017
In Mosul, Revealing the Last ISIS Stronghold
By Ivor Prickett An Iraqi federal police officer in the Old City of west Mosul. CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times Days after the...
Susan Crabtree | The Washington Free Beacon
Jul 28, 2017
Human Rights Activists Applaud Tillerson for Calling ISIS Slaughter of Iraqi Religious Minorities &#
Human rights activists are applauding Secretary of State Tillerson for using the term genocide to describe the Islamic State's mass...
Foreign Policy
Jul 27, 2017
From the Rise of the Caliphate to the Fall of Mosul, One Family’s Journey
By Campbell MacDiarmid Residents of this shattered city initially welcomed the Islamic State, but the honeymoon was short. The damage...
Stephen Hollingshead and Henrik Fogh Rasmussen |
Jul 26, 2017
Trump can make the best of things in Iraq and Syria with 'expeditionary economics'
Restoring the devastated regions of Iraq and Syria will require a new, bottom-up approach to post-conflict reconstruction, focusing on...
BBC News
Jul 24, 2017
Yazidi survivor: 'I was raped every day for six months'
Nearly three years ago, so-called Islamic State fighters swept through northern Iraq, where the country’s oldest ethnic minority were...
CBN News
Jul 21, 2017
ISIS Defeated, Christians Still Face Uncertain Future in Iraq
By Erik Rosales Although the United States and other coalition forces have driven ISIS from Iraqi cities like Mosul, the task of...
Human Rights Watch
Jun 27, 2017
US State Department’s Lie About Child Soldiers
By Jo Becker United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington, U.S....
