Pope Francis has arrived in Iraq for a whirlwind four-city tour across three days. It’s the pontiff’s first trip since November 2019 and the coronavirus
Astonishingly, for three years U.S. government bureaucrats have refused to help endangered religious minority communities like Christians and Yazidis survive the genocide ISIS began in
DETROIT — A federal judge has ruled that 114 Iraqi immigrants facing deportation can stay in the U.S. for at least two more weeks as
MIDDLE EAST — While the Islamic State maintains territorial strongholds in Syria and Iraq, Christians have reportedly been able to remain in or return to
U.S. State Department officials said that they have not forgotten the suffering in Iraq and Syria—where Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh) has slaughtered, pillaged, and
NORTHERN IRAQ — Whoever built this tennis court probably never imagined refugees would be reclining there under temporary shelters. The sprawling picnic area, once a
The discovery of an abandoned refrigeration truck full of corpses on an Austrian highway on Aug. 27 and the body of a 3-year-old toddler washed
Life as an Iraqi Christian refugee One year ago, Mosul fell to militants belonging to a Sunni Muslim movement calling itself the Islamic State of
Now safe in Iraq, an Assyrian family recounts its escape from Islamic militants. DOHUK, Iraq—In northern Iraq, taking the road up the mountains involves navigating
You’ve probably heard by now that President Obama has asked Congress to authorize military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
Now 14 years into a new millennium, the year jerked us back to a past we thought we’d left behind: Beheadings, race riots, Soviet-style conflict,
ALQOSH, Iraq — Basima al-Safar retouches a picture of Jesus on an easel outside her house overlooking the flat Nineveh plains, 30 miles north of Mosul.
More than they want food, forcibly displaced families in northern Iraq want to talk about the pain they are enduring at the hands of Islamic
With ISIS beheading a second American journalist and controlling a large section of Iraq and Syria, analysts say military action against the terrorist group aligns
When IS captured Mosul on June 10 the most devastating part of its seizure was its outright targeting of all non-Sunni Muslim groups. This has
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