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Iraqi Christians still held by Islamic State ‘against their will’

February 1, 2015 Iraq Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Kirkuk, Mosul, Peshmerga, Qaraqosh, Refugees

...under the control of Kurdish Peshmerga Forces, after being forced to leave a temporary residence in Mosul. The group had been living in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, for nearly...

10 more Christians flee Mosul

January 9, 2015 Iraq Chaldeans, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kirkuk, Mosul, Peshmerga

On Jan. 7, ten elderly Chaldean Christians and Syrian Catholics arrived in Kirkuk, Iraq after Islamic State militants expelled them from Mosul for their refusal to convert to Islam. The...

ISIS preparing for worldwide religious cleansing

December 22, 2014 Europe, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Raqqa, Syria

German author and former politician, Juergen Todenhoefer spoke with CNN after travelling into territory occupied by ISIS including Syrian cities Raqqa and Iraq’s second largest city Mosul. “I think the...

Iraqi Yazidi couple flees ISIS to freedom

December 22, 2014 Iraq Iraq, Peshmerga, Refugees, Yazidis

Yazidis near the Nassen Adin shrine near Ba’shiqah, north of Mosul. (Ankawa.com) Rescue operations began Dec. 19 in northern Iraq for thousands of Yazidi villagers trapped for the past four...

Monastery converted to prison

December 18, 2014

Sources inside Mosul, controlled by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” have confirmed that during the third week of December, IS militants transported nearly 150 blindfolded people and detained them inside the city’s St....

Iraqi Christians in Jordan in need

December 16, 2014 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Jordan, Migrants, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Refugees

...for bureaucratic reasons, they have no access to Jordanian schools.” These refugees, from Mosul or the Nineveh Plain, fled to Jordan to avoid the advance of the self-proclaimed Islamic State....

Syrian Christians have wedding despite IS threat

November 17, 2014 Syria Islamic State, Kurds, Nineveh Plains, Qamishli, Syria

...the city and now 5,000 remain but many of them are talking of leaving. “When the Christians had to flee Mosul and the valley of Nineveh, the Christians here thought...

Jordan deports American pastor, assistant’s eviction pending

November 14, 2014 Jordan Amman, Jordan, King Abdullah II

...talking point in recent years, has also welcomed Iraq’s Christians. Thousands fled Mosul in July when the Sunni militant group gave them the choice of conversion, paying a tax, or...

Analysis: Distinction between ‘moderate Islamists’ and ‘militant extremists’ is misleading for Western governments

November 14, 2014 Iraq Islamic extremism, Islamic State, USA

...delivering a sermon in Mosul, Iraq July 2014 Photo: CC by al-Furqan Media The speech delivered by Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, the official spokesman of the Islamic State in Iraq and...

1,800 Iraqi Christians now in Jordan

October 17, 2014 Jordan Amman, Iraq, Islamic State, Jordan, King Abdullah II, Refugees

...from the area surrounding Mosul first escaped IS by going to Erbil, but are now temporarily sheltering in Jordan upon the invitation of Jordan’s King Abdullah II and with the...

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