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- 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...
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Joshua A. Geltzer | The Atlantic
- Dec 27, 2017
ANALYSIS: The Perils of a Post-ISIS Middle East
To defeat it, Washington has cultivated ties with groups at odds with each other. What happens when their common foe is gone? As 2017...
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Sarah El Deeb | The Washington Post
- Dec 27, 2017
Syria allows some patients to leave besieged area
BEIRUT — Syria’s government is allowing the evacuation of nearly 30 critically ill people from a besieged Damascus suburb, where hundreds...
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Cathy Otten | 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. BEHZANE, IRAQ—On a recent...
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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...
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Robin Wright | The New Yorker
- Dec 20, 2017
Written in Blood and Rust from a Syrian Prison: “Don’t Forget Us”
Mansour Omari, a Syrian journalist in his mid-thirties with wavy hair and sideburns, spent a year documenting the names of detainees who...