51 U.S. Diplomats Urge Strikes Against Assad in Syria Mark Landler, The New York Times    16 June 2016   Image: Smoke and flames rose after what fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces said were American-led airstrikes on the mills of Manbij where Islamic State militants are positioned, in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday.CreditRodi Said/Reuters  WASHINGTON — More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical

Mass Arrests in Bangladesh Yield Scores of Militants, the Police Say Julfikar Ali Manik and Ellen Barry, The New York Times  21 June 2016  Image: Activists in Dhaka, Bangladesh, held portraits on Wednesday of people who were among those killed in recent years in attacks claimed by Islamist militants. CreditAssociated Press  DHAKA, Bangladesh — The Bangladeshi police on Friday ended a week of mass arrests in response to the three-year campaign

ICC sentences former Congo VP Bemba to 18 years in prison Associated Press, The Washington Post  21 June 2016  Image: Jean-Pierre Bemba enters the court room of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. The ICC delivered its sentence against former Congolese vice president Bemba who was found guilty, on 21 March 2016, of two counts of crimes against humanity (murder and rape) and three counts of war crimes

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Alleged Killer of British MP Was a Longtime Supporter of the Neo-Nazi National Alliance Hatewatch Staff, SPLC Souther Poverty Law Center  20 June 2016  Image: Jo Cox (AP Images/Yui Mok/PA) Jo Cox, a member of the Labour Party in the British Parliament, died Thursday after an attack by a lone man who shot and stabbed her in West Yorkshire following a regular public meeting she held with constituents. Her alleged killer is Thomas Mair, 52. According

They Couldn’t Take Our Faith, Iraqi Christian Persecuted by ISIS Fighters Addresses Scottish Teenagers Kirsteen Paterson, The National  20 June 2016  Image: Bishop John Keenan of Paisley attended the event in which Sarmad Ozan, an Iraqi-born Christian forced to flee, spoke about his ordeal A student forced to flee with nothing as Daesh drove Christians from his Iraqi home town told Scottish teenagers yesterday “faith is all we have left that

Patriarchs Call for Liberation of Iraqi Lands for Displaced Christians after ISIS Attacks Chiqui Guyjoco, The Christian Times  20 June 2016  Image: Displaced Iraq Christians who fled from Islamic State militants in Mosul, pray at a school acting as a refugee camp in Erbil September 6, 2014. Marking the second year since terrorists displaced tens of thousands of Christians, Syriac Patriarchs called for the liberation of the Iraqi Christian lands.

Iraqi Christian Who Fled ISIS: Faith Is All We Have Left Florence Taylor, Christian Today  20 June 2016  Image: A ISIS fighter waves his flag and weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. A Christian student forced to flee Islamic State in Iraq said yesterday that "faith is all we have left that ISIS couldn't take from us". Speaking at a charity rally organised by Aid to the Church in Need, Sarmad Ozan, 20, told the story of how

By Dr. Gregory Stanton, the Founding President of Genocide Watch Send ISIS to the ICC Image: Islamic State fighters march in the Syrian city of Raqqa in an image posted on a militant website on Jan. 14, 2014.Uncredited/Militant Website, via Associated Press

Iraq’s Fallujah faces ‘disaster’, NGO warns The National  16 June 2016  Image: A woman, who fled from Fallujah because of ISIL violence, carrying her child during a dust storm at a refugee camp in Ameriyat Falluja, south of Fallujah, Iraq, June 16, 2016. Ahmed Saad/Reuters Under fire and nearing starvation, tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians trapped in the ISIL-held city of Fallujah face a humanitarian disaster, an aid group warned on Thursday.