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

Bangladesh, Blaming Local Groups for Attacks, Seeks Suspects Tied to ISIS Ellen Barry and Maher Sattar, The New York Times July 20, 2016 Image: A police checkpoint along a road leading to the Holey Artisan Bakery, the site of a deadly attack this month in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh, reeling from a sudden intensification of terrorism this summer, has begun an urgent search for men suspected of building an Islamic State presence in the country

Iraq invasion 'sounded death knell for Iraqi Christians' James Macintyre, Christian Today  7 July 2016 Image: Displaced Iraqi Christians who fled from ISIS militants in Mosul, pray at a school serving as a refugee camp in Erbil on Sept. 6, 2014. Amid the flood of Chilcot report coverage focusing on the build-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, there has been little attention on Iraqi Christians, whose perilous plight echoes that of displaced and persecuted

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

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

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

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

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.