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Adam Chandler The Wire BusinessInsider.com 8/18/2014 …Last week, we mentioned the growing role of the PKK, the Kurdish Workers’ Party, in the fighting. Despite being designated a terrorist group by the United States for waging a decades-long battle against Turkey, the group has become a formidable opponent in the battle against ISIS. Helping to lead […] August 18th, 2014 | Tags: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Kurds, Mosul, Rep. Mike Turner, Shiite, Yazidi | Category: Barack Obama, Iraq, Islam, Military, religion, terrorism | Comments are closed
Loveday Morris The Washington Post 8/5/2014 BAGHDAD — Stranded on a barren mountaintop, thousands of minority Iraqis are faced with a bleak choice: descend and risk slaughter at the hands of the encircled Sunni extremists or sit tight and risk dying of thirst. Humanitarian agencies said Tuesday that between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians remain trapped […] August 6th, 2014 | Tags: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), kidnapping, refugees, religious persecution, Shiite, slavery, Sunni, UNICEF, Yazidi | Category: Iraq, Islam, Middle East, religion, United Nations | Comments are closed
Daughter and husband linked to slaying of Iraq-born mother beaten to death by tire iron in California home Authorities examing suspicious text message sent to daughter, 17 Threatening note that read ‘Go back to your own country’ previously dismissed as a prank The Daily Mail [UK] 5 April 2012 A California hate crime murder that […] April 5th, 2012 | Tags: 'One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi', divorce, Fatima Alhimidi, San Diego, Sayed Nabeel Alawadi, Shaima Alawadi, Shiite | Category: California, Crime, FBI, Iraq, Islam, Texas | Comments are closed
Walid Shoebat Shoebat.com 4/2/2012 Syria is not the only place where the Sunni / Shiite divide is heating up. It’s also manifesting itself at the highest levels of government in Shiite-controlled Iraq. Last December, it was learned that an arrest warrant had been issued for Iraq’s Sunni Vice President – Tariq al-Hashemi – who fled […] April 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Egypt, Hadi al-Ameri, Huma Abedin, Hussein al-Shahristani, Muslim Brotherhood, Nouri al-Maliki, Qatar, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Shiite, Sunni, Syria, Tariq al-Hashemi | Category: Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Politicians, State Department, terrorism | Comments are closed
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