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Elderly Christian Forced to Convert to Islam, Cannot Afford ISIS Minority Tax Lisa Daftari, The Foreign Desk 16 June 2016 Image:  The Foreign Desk   An elderly Christian man living in Raqqa, Syria, faced forced conversion to Islam as he can no longer afford to pay the minority or jizya tax, a penalty enforced by the Islamic State to minorities living under its jurisdiction. In a video posted by the terror group’s Amaq news platform, a man

Canadian Motion to Recognize ISIS Slaughter of Christians, Yazidis, Shias, and Gays as Genocide Defeated Olivia Ward, The Toronto Star  16 June 2016  Image: A Yazidi woman from the Sinjar district of Iraq holds her child after arriving by boat from the Turkish coast on the island of Lesbos, Greece, Nov. 26, 2015.  (SERGEY PONOMAREV / THE NEW YORK TIMES)   When Daesh attacked their homeland in Iraq’s Sinjar region in August 2014, thousands

These Iraqis Dodged Bombs and Bullets to Escape the Islamic State, but Their Misery Hasn’t Ended Loveday Morris, The Washington Post 15 June 2016 Image: Children inside the medical center near Fallujah watch through a fence. (Ali Arkady/VII for The Washington Post) AMARIYAT FALLUJAH, Iraq — The family thought they had safely escaped Islamic State-held Fallujah, letting out cries of joy when they reached the outskirts of the city. But moments

Worries Flare Over Yang Maodong, Jailed Chinese Dissident on Hunger Strike Chris Buckley, The New York Times  15 June 2016 Image: Yang Maodong, better known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong, at a detention center in Guangzhou, China, in 2014. CreditAssociated Press BEIJING — One of China’s best-known imprisoned dissidents, Yang Maodong, is putting his already fragile health at risk after weeks on a hunger strike, his wife and sister said on Wednesday,

Philippines Confirms Killing of Robert Hall, Canadian Hostage, by Abu Sayyaf Floyd Whaley and Ian Austen, The New York Times  14 June 2016 Image: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said on Tuesday that his government had “every reason to believe” that a Canadian held hostage in the Philippines had been killed by his captors. MANILA — Philippine officials confirmed on Tuesday that a Canadian man held captive by the militant group Abu

Killing Twice for ISIS and Saying So Live on Facebook Alissa J. Rubin and Lilia Blaise, The New York Times  14 June 2016 Image: Police officers at the crime scene a day after a knife-wielding attacker stabbed a police captain in Magnanville, France, on Tuesday. CreditThibault Camus/Associated Press PARIS — He stabbed an off-duty police officer and left him bleeding to death on his own doorstep. He forced his way inside the home and stabbed and

 Iraq’s army retakes village south of Mosul three months after launch of offensive Loveday Morris and Mustafa Salim, The Washington Post  14 June 2016 Image: Smoke rises from clashes with Islamic State militants in Fallujah, Iraq. (Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters) BAGHDAD — The Iraqi army wrested control of a village held by the Islamic State south of Mosul on Tuesday, nearly three months after launching an offensive to retake it. The Iraqi military

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A young man is skinned alive. A sign of new Taliban brutality? Tim Craig, The Washington Post June 11 2016 Image: A member of a breakaway faction of the Taliban guards a gathering in the Shindand district of Herat province in Afghanistan on May 27, 2016. (Allauddin Khan/AP) KABUL — In a remote area of Afghanistan, where thousands of years of hardscrabble tribal culture increasingly mixes with a resurgent Taliban militancy, this is how Fazl Ahmad