Iraq launches 'deadly strikes' against ISIL inside Syria
Iraqi PM's office says F-16 fighter jets carried out air raids near the border in coordination with Syrian army. Iraq says it has carried...
Genocide Watch
Apr 19, 2018
Iraq: Women and children with perceived ties to IS denied aid, sexually exploited and trapped in cam
Report reveals collective punishment of women and children for being related, however distantly, to men linked to IS or fleeing IS...
Amnesty International
Apr 17, 2018
How Syria Came to This
A story of ethnic and sectarian conflict, international connivance, and above all civilian suffering By Andrew Tabler Seven years of...
The Atlantic
Apr 15, 2018
ISIS Returnees Bring Both Hope and Fear to Chechnya
The victories over ISIS in Mosul and Raqqa pose a dilemma for states whose citizens travelled to join the Islamic State’s (ISIS) ranks...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 26, 2018
Winning the Post-ISIS Battle for Iraq in Sinjar
What’s new? The Islamic State (ISIS) is defeated in Iraq, and its genocidal campaign against the Yazidis in Sinjar has ended. But...
International Crisis Group 1
Feb 20, 2018
The Lost Children of ISIS
In July 2017, video of a naked child found in the ruins of Mosul circulated widely online. The boy, pointing to an Iraqi flag on one of...
Foreign Policy
Jan 2, 2018
HRW REPORT Iraq: Yezidi Fighters Allegedly Execute Civilians
Investigate, Prosecute Armed Group Abuses (Beirut) – Yezidi fighters in Iraq allegedly forcibly disappeared and killed 52 civilians from...
Human Rights Watch
Dec 27, 2017
ANALYSIS: The Perils of a Post-ISIS Middle East
To defeat it, Washington has cultivated ties with groups at odds with each other. What happens when their common foe is gone? As 2017...
Joshua A. Geltzer | The Atlantic
Dec 27, 2017
Genocide Survivors Celebrate Christmas in Iraq
When ISIS arose in 2014, the jihadist force swept across northern Iraq and carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign of Christian villages...
Geoffrey Johnston | The Whig
Dec 21, 2017
Yazidi women struggle to return to daily life after enduring Islamic State brutality
Yazidi women, who were sold as sex slaves by Islamic State militants, are now returning to their families from formerly ISIS-controlled...
PBS
Dec 18, 2017
The Plot to Bomb Garden City, Kansas
For all of Patrick Stein’s life, Southwest Kansas — “God’s country,” he called it — had looked basically the same. Golden fields, white...
Jessica Pressler | New York Magazine
Dec 12, 2017
Jihadism in Southern Thailand: A Phantom Menace
What’s the issue? Media reports and some observers suggest growing potential for Islamic State (ISIS) activity in Thailand’s southernmost...
International Crisis Group 1
Nov 8, 2017
