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Former US War Crimes Ambassador Calls for UN Investigative Probe into Yazidi Genocide

Former US War Crimes Ambassador Calls for UN Investigative Probe into Yazidi Genocide Stephanie van den Berg, International Justice Tribune  21 July 2016 Image: Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a Yazidi woman who escaped sexual enslavement by Islamic State, bows her head after telling her story during a UN Security Council meeting (Photo: Flickr/UN Photo/Amanda Voisard) After a United Nations Inquiry commission found last month that the crimes of Islamic

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Istanbul Ataturk Airport Attack: Deaths Rise to 41, with 239 Hurt

Istanbul Ataturk Airport Attack: Deaths Rise to 41, with 239 Hurt BBC News  29 June 2016 Image: BBC News  The death toll in a gun and suicide bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has risen to 41, 13 of them foreign nationals, with 239 injured, the Turkish city's governor says. Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance late on Tuesday. They blew themselves up after police fired back. PM Binali Yildirim said

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Fallujah, a Military Success but Humanitarian Failure, Could Signal Catastrophe in Mosul

Fallujah, a Military Success but Humanitarian Failure, Could Signal Catastrophe in Mosul Image: Displaced Iraqis at a camp near Fallujah, June 22, 2016. (Osamah Waheeb/Reuters) Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437174/isis-mosul-fallujah-iraq-united-states-religious-minorities-refugees-humanitarian-aid BY NINA SHEA,    June 27, 2016 www.nationalreview.com In an unexpectedly short offensive, Iraqi forces, bolstered by U.S. air

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ISIS and the Culture of Narcissism

ISIS and the Culture of Narcissism Robert Pape and Walker Gunning, The Wall Street Journal 27 June 2016 Image: Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in Orlando, Fla., and praised Islamic State. The transcript of Omar Mateen’s call to 911 during the Orlando nightclub shooting paints a man on an unshakable mission of terror in the name of Islamic State, or ISIS. While the call is a chilling reminder of Mateen’s horrible act, it is not the only window

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Get Ready for Another Iraq War

Get Ready for Another Iraq War Seth Moulton, The Washington Post  23 June 2016 Iraqi soldiers patrol the streets of Saqlawiyah, northwest of Fallujah, on June 8, during an operation to regain territory from the Islamic State. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) Losing a friend in war is always hard. Losing a friend to a battle we already fought and won is worse. That’s how my close friend Lt. Col. Ehab Hashem Moshen was

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Prevent and Punish ISIS’s Genocide and Syria’s Crimes Against Humanity and Rescue and Protect the Victims

    Prevent and Punish ISIS’s Genocide and Syria’s Crimes Against Humanity and Rescue and Protect the Victims         Professor Gregory Stanton (Genocide Watch) Professor Elihu Richter (Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention) Professor Irwin Cotler (Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights) Lisa Miari (Springs of Hope Foundation) Professor Muhammed Dajani (Wasatia)       March 21, 2016       A Call From Genocide Watch (Washington

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Iraqi Military Clearing Last Neighborhoods of Fallujah

Iraqi Military Clearing Last Neighborhoods of Fallujah J. Dana Stuster, The Foreign Policy  24 June 2016  Image: Iraqi Military Clearing Last Neighborhoods of Fallujah, The Foreign Policy  The Iraqi military is clearing the last two neighborhoods of Fallujah occupied by the Islamic State, according to the Iraqi commander in charge of the operation. The only resistance the Iraqi troops are still encountering is in the neighborhoods of Jolan

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Sweden Toughens Rules for Refugees Seeking Asylum

Sweden Toughens Rules for Refugees Seeking Asylum Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times  21 June 2016  Image: The Majid family, refugees from Syria, at their home in Backhammar, Sweden, in April. Sweden has introduced tough new restrictions on asylum seekers. Mauricio Lima for The New York Times Sweden, once one of the most welcoming countries for refugees, on Tuesday introduced tough new restrictions on asylum seekers, including rules that would

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51 U.S. Diplomats Urge Strikes Against Assad in Syria

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

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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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