On a scorching August afternoon, an angry crowd besieged a mini-truck loaded with meat of two slaughtered cows amidst the ruins of what was the last Islamic State (IS) bastion in Mosul. In a desperate scramble, they grabbed beef from a man standing in the open back of the truck and, after it pulled away, […]
The death toll in coordinated Islamic State group suicide bombings and shootings in southern Syria rose to nearly 250 overnight, more than half of them civilians, a monitor said Thursday. Wednesday’s attacks hit Sweida, a Druze-majority province mostly held by the government which had remained relatively insulated from the country’s seven-year civil war. The death […]
Russia said Saturday that airstrikes carried out this month had killed about 180 Islamic State jihadists in Syria, including two field commanders. “As a result of June 6 and 8 aerial strikes on targets belonging to IS fighters, IS field commanders Abu Omar al-Belgiki and Abu Yasin al-Masri were killed” in Deir Ezzor, a province […]
Islamic State militants staged a surprise attack early Tuesday at a crossing frequently used by Iraqi and Syrian civilians seeking safety in northeastern Syria, killing at least 37 people, mostly civilians, Kurdish officials and activists said. The militants struck before dawn after sneaking into the village of Rajm Sleibi, located along a front line that […]
Jihadist militants from the Islamic State group posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them in central Mosul, officials said on Tuesday. Wearing police uniforms, they entered parts of the Old City on Monday to trick residents into showing their support for the federal forces, the Joint Operations Command (JOC) […]
A video appearing to show a fresh attack on Syria with Russian parachute bombs has emerged online. Harrowing first hand footage captures the moment a bomb lands on the Syrian city of Al-Lataminah as a mushroom cloud of smoke bursts skywards. A man recording the footage is heard praying for the souls of those near […]
At least 48 people were killed and more than 150 injured in double blast in front of a Christian church in Alexandria and the second blast in the Nile Delta city of Tanta. Islamic State claimed responsibility for both attacks, via its Amaq press agency. “A group that belongs to Islamic State carried out the […]
Spokesman for United States military said Thursday that Islamic State fighters had been herding local Iraqi residents into buildings in western Mosul. The rising civilian casualties would restrain the United States and its allies from using airstrikes to help retake that half of the city. Col. Joseph E. Scrocca, a spokesman for the task force […]
Exhausted and war-weary to run, he simply trudges down the road away from the hell of Islamic State’s terrifying last stand. Carrying frightened toddler on his shoulders and a tiny baby somehow asleep in his arms, this fleeing father’s haunted face sums up the horror of the siege of Mosul’s suicidal dying days. His family […]
Erbil Hospital emergency cell was on alert as five small children lie in beds, along with their mother, all wrapped in bandages, with chemical burns from a mortar attack that hit their house. Eastern Mosul family is from a neighborhood called Giraj al-Shimal, they are among the 15 people who had been brought to Erbil […]
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Human Rights Observers an organization in special status with UN ECOSOC has organized conference on Women’s rights and Environmental awareness Speaking on the occasion prominent senior advocate smt. Venkateshwari, stated that Violence against women and girls, a gross human rights violation, devastates lives, causes untold pain, suffering and illness. She has given various examples of […]
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