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Alleged Killer of British MP Was a Longtime Supporter of the Neo-Nazi National Alliance

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

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They Couldn’t Take Our Faith, Iraqi Christian Persecuted by ISIS Fighters Addresses Scottish Teenagers

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

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Patriarchs Call for Liberation of Iraqi Lands for Displaced Christians after ISIS Attacks

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.

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Iraqi Christian Who Fled ISIS: Faith Is All We Have Left

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

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Send ISIS to the ICC

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

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Iraq’s Fallujah faces ‘disaster’, NGO warns

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.

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The N.R.A.’s Complicity in Terrorism

The N.R.A.’s Complicity in Terrorism The Editorial Board, The New York Times  16 June 2016 Image: Marina Muun, The New York Times  “America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms,” one spokesman for Al Qaeda said in a 2011 recruitment video. “So what are you waiting for?” Few places on earth make it easier than the United States for a terrorist to buy assault weapons to mow down scores of people in a matter of minutes. The

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ISIS Committed Genocide Against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, U.N. Panel Says

ISIS Committed Genocide Against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, U.N. Panel Says Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York Times  16 June 2016 Image: Yazidis fleeing Sinjar, Iraq, in 2014 after forces loyal to the Islamic State took the town. Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook it last fall. CreditRodi Said/Reuters GENEVA — Islamic State forces have committed genocide and other war crimes in a continuing effort to exterminate the Yazidi religious minority in

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Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds

Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds Human Rights Watch  16 June 2016  Image: Demonstrations were triggered by an Ethiopian government plan to expand the boundaries of Addis Ababa on to farmland in the neighbouring Oromia region (AFP Photo/Zacharias Abubeker) Free Wrongfully Held Detainees, Independent Inquiry Needed  (Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands

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Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis, says UN

Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis, says UN BBC News 16 June 2016 Image: Displaced Yazidi people fleeing violence from Isis forces in Sinjar town. Photograph: Rodi Said/Reuters UN human rights investigators have for the first time accused so-called Islamic State of committing genocide against Yazidis in Iraq and Syria. A report says IS has subjected members of the religious group it has captured to the "most horrific of atrocities",

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