Advocacy Coalition, Legislators Call on Trump to Act on IS Genocide
By Arman Tarjimanyan Bahzad Farhan Murad points to a list of missing and killed Yazidis to The Associated Press in the small office where...
VOA (Voice of America)
Mar 17, 2017
On the Ground in Iraq’s Battle with the Islamic State—Civilians Caught in the Crossfire
The city of Mosul has been in the news lately as the Iraqi central government and Kurdistan Regional Government, with the support of a...
Belkis Wille | The Progressive
Mar 17, 2017
Human rights abuses and international humanitarian law violations in the Syrian Arab Republic, 21 Ju
Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February-24 March 2017 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s...
Genocide Watch
Mar 14, 2017
Knights of Columbus Gives Nearly $2 million to Aid Syrian and Iraqi Christian Refugees
A year after the U.S. Congress and State Department declared that ISIS was committing genocide against Christians and other religious...
Knights of Columbus
Mar 14, 2017
Mosul IS battle: 'Remains of prisoners' found at mass grave site
More evidence has been discovered of a reported massacre in 2014 of up to 600 inmates at Badoush prison near Mosul, Iraqi forces say. The...
BBC News
Mar 12, 2017
Syrian children 'pushed to the brink' after worst atrocities since war began
Unprecedented number of children maimed, killed and recruited for combat roles in 2016, says Unicef report on violations suffered by...
The Guardian
Mar 12, 2017
UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia,...
BBC News
Mar 11, 2017
New Evidence Suggests Saudi-led Coalition Endangering Civilians with Use of Banned Cluster Munitions
New evidence this week collected and corroborated by Amnesty International indicates that the Saudi-led coalition has continued the use...
!a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) Weekly 1
Mar 10, 2017
When does an urgent food crisis become a famine?
Nine-month-old Ali Hassan is among a generation of Somalian babies facing a looming famine. Credit: AP An unprecedented four nations...
ITV News
Mar 7, 2017
ISIS Accused of Unleashing Chemical Weapons in Mosul
By Belkis Wille The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) has been accused of carrying out a chemical attack in Mosul last week, which, if...
Human Rights Watch
Mar 6, 2017
UN: If confirmed, chemical attacks in Mosul a war crime
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The United Nations warned that the alleged use of chemical weapons in Mosul, if confirmed, would be a war crime and a...
Associated Press 1
Mar 4, 2017
Iraq’s Grisly Liberation
Inside the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh (Joseph Galanakis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) In the Nineveh Plains cities...
Mindy Belz | World Magazine
Mar 4, 2017
