Iraq Archive
Forced from Mosul, centuries old Christian community vanishes –: An Iraqi Christian man who fled the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul sits inside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Chaldean Church in Telkaif near Mosul, July 20, 2014. (photo by REUTERS) ERBIL, Iraq — When fighters from
Qatar facilitates ransom for Al Qaeda related groups: Officials from Switzerland, left, and Qatar flanked Silvia Eberhardt at Doha’s airport after she was freed from captivity in Yemen in 2013. Agence France Presse/Getty Images Note by Agha Jafri: The most dangerous and bloodthirsty terrorists in the
Isis winning its war on two fronts: Militants conquered Sunni regions of Iraq and are now consolidating hold on north-east Syria: While the world has been understandably focused on events in Gaza and Ukraine, the Islamist force has been extending its self-styled caliphate and consolidating its previous gains In the early hours of 24 July a Saudi volunteer belonging to
All 45 Christian Institutions in Mosul Destroyed or Occupied by Wahabi/Deobandi ISIS: (AINA) — Since taking over Mosul on June 10, ISIS has destroyed, occupied, converted to mosques, converted to ISIS headquarters or shuttered all 45 Christian institutions in Mosul. The following is the complete list of the Christian institutions
Convert to Islam or Pay Taxes or be Killed This’s no way to spread a religion, be it islam – by Mansoor Ahmad: Muslims are creating more enemies by threatening minorities and in this case the Christians in Iraq who have been living there since centuries and had adopted it as their home. Latest threat came from the Caliphate of Islamic State
Iraq crisis: Is Turkey’s government supporting ISIS? – by Daniel Pipes: The battle in Iraq consists of “Turkish-backed Sunni jihadis rebelling against an Iranian-backed Shi’ite-oriented central government,” I wrote in a recent article. Some readers question that the Republic of Turkey has supported the “Islamic State in Iraq and
Why No One Cares About the Christians of Mosul: No one cares about the Christians of Mosul–or perhaps we should say the Christians formerly of Mosul. The reports in recent days suggest that the last Christians have now fled that city, forced out by Islamist militants who implemented a
…داعش نے شام اور عراق میں ظلم اور بربریت کی بد ترین مثال قائم کی مگر فلسطین: آپ ایسے خلیفہ تل مسلمین کے بارے میں کیا کہیں گے جس کے سر ہزاروں معصوموں اور بے گناہوں کا قتل ہو؟اور ایسا خلیفہ جس کے دل میں اولیا ء اللہ اور اصحاب رسول تو کیا انبیا علیہ السلام
The Salafi/Deobandi Islamic State Killing Fields in Iraq – Daily Mail: In what should be a time of happiness when Muslims mark the end of Ramadan, Salafi/Deobandi Islamist militants in Iraq celebrated Eid by releasing a video showing scenes of them carrying out genocide. The slickly produced footage shows
Longtime U.S. ‘Allies’ Qatar, Kuwait Prime Terror Financiers – by Ryan Mauro: David Cohen, the Treasury Department Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, has stated for the record what no other U.S. official would: Qatar and Kuwait, two supposed “allies” of the U.S., are facilitating Islamist terrorism and
Islamic State militants open office for potential wives: monitor: Islamic State insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on Monday. The office in al-Bab, a town
One of the oldest Christian communities has been destroyed as the Salafi ISIS Caliphate spreads – by Robert Fisk: For three years, the Arab revolutions cast “Palestine” and Palestinians to the fringe of memory in the Middle East. And now the new bloodbath in Gaza has pushed to the corner of our consciousness the continuing tragedy of the
The Nation’s editorial: Sunnis must distance themselves from the intolerant Salafi-Deobandi ideology of ISIS militants in Iraq: Editor’s note: We commend the Nation for specifically identifying the Takfiri Salafi Deobandi ideology as the root cause of terror and destruction. Indeed Sunnis have to fight this evil and not allow Salafi and Deobandi to misrepresent
اب ’سنی‘ بھی اسلامک اسٹیٹ کے نشانے پر: شدت پسند تنظیم اسلامک اسٹیٹ آئی ایس نے صوبہ دیالہ میں سنیوں کے پانچ گروپوں کو 48 گھنٹے تک کا وقت دیا ہے۔ اس دوران ان گروپوں کو یا تو اسلامک اسٹیٹ میں شامل ہونے کے بارے میں فیصلہ
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism – by William Dalrymple: An Iraqi security officer guards the Church of the Virgin Mary in the northern town of Bartala, near Mosul, in 2012. Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images The past decade has been catastrophic for the Arab world’s beleaguered 12
Sick ISIS Salafi video emerges showing 50 beheaded Syrian Christian, Shia and Sunni Sufi soldiers being impaled on poles and held aloft in Raqqa city: Deobandi/Wahabi militants have reportedly beheaded dozens of soldiers at a Syrian army base and mounted their heads on poles. Salafoi/Deobandi Extremists from the group Islamic State, previously known as ISIS, seized the base in the northern province of
Kurdistan Tribune: Doctors Confirm ISIS Use of Chemical Weapon in Kobanê, Syria: Local doctors and officials have confirmed that the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) used some sorts of chemical weapon that instantly killed Kurdish fighters during clashes in Kobanê of Rojava northeast Syria. Kobanê Canton Health Minister
The last Jews of Baghdad: Just SEVEN remain (and they fear for their lives after being named by WikiLeaks): WikiLeaks published diplomatic cables from Baghdad which named the individuals of the small Jewish community. And now the American Embassy is trying to locate any Jewish diplomats who could help the exposed individuals take part in
عراق: تکفیری خارجی دہشتگرد گروہ داعش نے حضرت شیث علیہ السلام کا مزار بھی تباہ کر دیا – از خرم زکی: عراق میں داعش اور اس کے لعنتی خلیفہ ابو بکر البغدادی کے ہاتھوں انبیاء کرام اور اولیاء عظام کے مزاروں اور قبور کی توہین کا سلسلہ جاری. حضرت شیث علیہ السلام کا مزار بھی شہید کر دیا. نہ ہی
Fleeing Iraqi Christians find safe haven at the Shrine of Imam Ali: Editor’s Note: The Western media and their Secular Sectarian sycophants deliberately obfuscated the rise of ISIS as a “Shia-Sunni” proxy war. No mention of Saudi Arabia, US and France who facilitated ISIS in Syria to overthrow the
Meet this young Saudi doctor who joined ISIS and killed 30 people in a suicide attack!: A Saudi Salafi doctor joined ISIS as a suicide bomber and killed 30 people in an attack on a checkpoint south of Kirkuk. It is not clear how Faisal bin Shaman al-Aanzi died or was killed. According to
Britain has forgotten its debt to the Christians of Iraq – by Kate Maltby: An armed man outside a cathedral in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Photo: AP) “Nineveh city was a city of sin. The jazzin’ and a-jivin’ made a terrible din.” So starts Michael Hurd’s Jonah-Man Jazz, the Sixties incarnation of a long
My brother, the suicide bomber: why British men go to Syria – by Randeep Ramesh: The bomber The last time Abdul Waheed Majeed spoke to his family, it was on a crackling telephone line from Syria at the end of January. He had arrived six months earlier on an aid convoy organised
ISIS’s Salafi Jihadists seize Syria army base, behead soldiers: Editor’s Note: This contradicts the theories of “liberals” who often theorize that Assad regime and ISIS are hand in hand and the real heros of Syria are the “moderate opposition” of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Speaking of the “moderate opposition”,
HRW: ISIS Salafi militants are abducting, killing, expelling minorities in Iraq: The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) is killing, kidnapping, and threatening religious and ethnic minorities in and around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Since capturing Mosul on June 10, 2014, the armed Sunni extremist group
Sunni and Shia Muslims join Christians in declaring ‘I am Iraqi, I am Christian’, condemn Salafi ISIS’s violence against minorities: Hundreds rallied (link is external) in Baghdad on Sunday to show solidarity with Christians who are being threatened by the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Iraq. Thousands of Christians in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city are being forced by
Purged by ISIS, Iraq’s Christians appeal to world for help: Iraqi Christians are begging for help from the civilized world after Mosul, the northern city where they have lived and worshiped for 2,000 years, was purged of non-Muslims by ISIS, the jihadist terror group that claims to have
Iraqi Turkmens ‘left for dead’ in desert: Hürriyet Photo, Selçuk Şamiloğlu A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Iraq as Turkmens who fled the advance of the feared Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are now succumbing to the region’s scorching summer sun
Bahrain’s Shia Muslims Tense as Politicians and Preachers Pledge Allegiance to ISIS: Photo from the profile of Turky Albinali, a Bahraini scholar who joined ISIS @turky_albinali For Bahrain’s majority Shia Muslim population, five recent events in their small island country ruled by Sunni Muslim al-Khalifa monarchs have them on edge. These events involved powerful
On Prophet Younis’s tomb’s destruction in Iraq – by Wasif Rizvi: Who built Nabi Younis’s tomb? Who protected it, revered it for centuries? I bet 99.99% of the western Christians/Jews were not aware of its existence prior to now. Iraq is a beautiful culture of preserving and revering heritage
عراق میں انبیاء و صحابہ کے مزارات کا انہدام اور الباکستانیوں کی خاموشی – عبدالقادر: داعش کے سلفی وہابی دہشت گردوں اور ان کے پاکستانی دیوبندی مددگاروں نے عراق کے صوبے نینوا میں قدیم عبرانی مذہبی شخصیات، نبی یونس اور نبی دانیال کے مزار مسمار کر دیے۔ داعش کے حامی الباکستانی دیوبندی و سلفی
Hamas’s backflip on Syria: Once a traitor, then never to be trusted – by Ghassan Kadi: Khaled Mishaal did a very dirty back flip on Syria 3 years ago, and he should never be trusted again. The same goes for Ismail Haniyye. It is sad that the fate of the people of Gaza
UN Scretary General Ban Ki-moon’s meeting with Grand Ayatollaah Al-Sistani: Assalam Alaikum. Ramadan Kareem. I am extremely honored to have met His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani today for the first time. He is a man of the deepest wisdom and tolerance. He is an inspiration and a role
عراق میں تکفیری خارجی دہشتگرد گروہ داعش کے ہاتھوں انبیاءکرام کے مزارات کا انہدام – از خرم ذکی: ملعون تکفیری خارجی دہشتگرد ابو بکر (البغدادی) نے، جو اپنے آپ کو تکفیریوں کا “خلیفہ” بھی گردانتا ہے، موصل عراق میں اپنے لعین تکفیری دہشتگرد گروہ داعش کے ذریعہ بزرگ انبیاء کرام حضرت یونس علیہ السلام اور حضرت دانیال
Salafi Jihadist return from Syria: Norway warned of imminent security threat: Norway’s intelligence service says it has been warned of an imminent “concrete threat” against the nation from people with links to fighters in Syria. Benedicte Bjoernland, the head of Norwegian security service PST, said on Thursday the
An Israeli perspective on differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims – by John Myhill: The great majority of Israelis simply don’t know the difference between Sunnis and Shias and they can’t be bothered to learn them. A related problem is that, believe it or not, there is also a pro-Sunni anti-Shia bias in
ISIS Salafi militants order all girls and women in Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation – UN: Iraqi families displaced by the Isis offensive in Mosul and northern Iraq at a refugee camp near Irbil. Photograph: Kamal Akrayi/EPA The United Nations said on Thursday that Deobandi/Wahabi militant group Islamic State (Isis) had ordered all girls
Seven reasons why ISIS or Daesh Salafi militants do not represent Islam and Muslims.: 1. They kill human beings without just cause “O ye who believe! stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to Allah, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor:
Iraq’s Waterless Christians: The Salafi Campaign to Expel a Religion: Qaraqosh is one of the last refuges in northern Iraq for Christians fleeing persecution by the militants of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, who swept into the region in June. A historic Christian city of 50,000
Insight – Islamic State crushes and coerces on march towards Baghdad – by Maggie Fick and Isra’ al-Rubei’i: (Reuters) – Using its own version of “soft” and “hard” power, the Islamic State is crushing resistance across northern Iraq so successfully that its promise to march on Baghdad may no longer be unrealistic bravado. While conventional states