'They're terrified and exhausted'

@PatrickWitty Twitter 8/10/2014

 

 

“They’re terrified and exhausted,” @moises_saman photographs Yazidi refugees in Iraq @TIME http://t.co/QbhesLzvgZ pic.twitter.com/r0cpYuJxB5

— Patrick Witty (@patrickwitty) August 11, 2014

 

 

 

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Chaldean Christian leader: ISIS 'Systematically Beheading' Children In Iraq

Eric Chen The Gospel Herald 8/6/2014

A prominent Christian leader of the Chaldean community unveiled the “systematic beheading of children” and other horrendous crimes committed by ISIS. He said that the Sunni extremists are committing genocide against Christians in Iraq and with the aim to instill the Sharia Law as the law of the land.

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Iraqi Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst

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 […]

No Joke: Obama Considering Flying Immigrants From Honduras Straight To The U.S. So They Don’t Have To Sneak Over Border…

Zip Weasel Zippers 7/24/2014

…Hoping to stem the recent surge of migrants at the Southwest border, the Obama administration is considering whether to allow hundreds of minors and young adults from Honduras into the United States without making the dangerous trek through Mexico, according to a draft of the proposal.

If approved, the plan would […]

Illegal Unaccompanied Minors Being Held For Placement in U.S. Admit to Engaging in Torture and Murder

Katie Pavlich Townhall.com 7/8/2014

 

 

 

 

…”We have six minors in Nogales who have admitted to killing and doing grievous bodily injuries. One admitted to killing as young as eight years old,” an agent tells Townhall anonymously for fear of losing his job for speaking out. “They are being held for placement […]

Iraq crisis: Islamists force 150,000 to flee Mosul

BBC News 10 June 2014

More than 150,000 people have been forced to flee Iraq’s second city of Mosul after Islamist militants effectively took control of it.

Troops were among those fleeing as hundreds of jihadists from the ISIS group overran it and much of the surrounding province of Nineveh.

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki […]

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