It’s charitable giving, but it doesn’t come from the heart. One has to give — or else. “’Kulfa Sultaniyya’: Islamic State’s new tax in eastern Syria,” Enab Baladi, September 30, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
U.S. citizen killed in Iran’s rocket attack in Iraqi Kurdistan
Hugh Fitzgerald explains why Iran is striking Kurdistan now here. “U.S. Confirms American Citizen Killed in Rocket Attack in Iraqi Kurdistan,” Reuters, September 29, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel on Thursday confirmed that a U.S. citizen was killed in the Iranian rocket attack […]
Iran Attacks Kurds In Iraq
Iran is now at the end of the second week of protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman tortured and killed while in police custody, after having been arrested by the Morality Police for not wearing her hijab properly. What started as protests in Tehran and the Kurdish areas have now […]
Yezidi captive of ISIS is rescued
Wafaa Ali Abbas, 21, was rescued yesterday from Al-Hool camp in Syria. She is from Kocho village in Sinjar. She was kidnapped in 2014 and rescued from lsIamic State (ISIS) captivity in Al Hool camp in Syria after eight years. Wafaa is one of the girls who fell victim to ISIS on August 15, 2014. […]
US embassy in Baghdad evacuated as Biden’s handlers continue to pursue deal with Iran
As-Sadr is a leading Shi’ite cleric. The Iranian mullahs are behind any threat to the U.S. embassy. But nothing will stop OId Joe’s handlers from pursuing their policy of appeasement of Iran. “BREAKING: Rioters storm Presidential Palace in Baghdad, US Embassy threatened,” by Libby Emmons and Jack Posobiec, Post Millennial, August 29, 2022: It was […]
The Iraqi Government Continues to Neglect the Survivors of the Yezidi Genocide
In mid-June, during a Turkish bombing raid on Sinjar in northern Iraq, a young girl ran away screaming at everyone to save her little brother. Her tears were shed in fear for her younger brother Salah, who fell victim to the Turkish air strike. Salah was a victim of the Yezidi genocide that continues to […]
Iraq: Islamic State murders five people returning from a swim, injures three others in jihad ambush
Remember when ISIS was defeated in Iraq? That was BB (Before Biden). “Five killed, three wounded in Diyala ISIS attack,” Rudaw, July 24, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): MANSURIYAH, Iraq – Five civilians were killed and three others wounded in an attack by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Iraq’s Diyala province on Thursday […]
Eight years later, the Yezidi genocide is still ongoing
The genocide resulted in the expulsion, flight, and effective banishment of the Yezidis from their ancestral land in Upper Mesopotamia. Thousands of Yezidi women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State (ISIS), and thousands of Yezidi men have been killed. Infant children were separated from mothers and killed by ISIS, whose mothers […]
The Long Jihad against Syria’s Christians
“A reconciliation with these Muslims, who wake up one day and simply strip away what little you have—never!” starkly pronounced to French Catholic aid worker Alexandre Goodarzy his future Syrian Christian wife. Such experiences with Syrian Christians in his newly translated memoir, Kidnapped in Iraq: A Christian Humanitarian Tells His Story, indicate the centuries of […]
In Iraq, A Millennial Drought
In Iraq, there’s a millennial drought, the kind of thing that scientists say comes along every thousand years. Lake Sawa, the largest lake in Iraq, has “dried up completely for the first time in thousands of years,” the rivers have shriveled into brooks, the supply of groundwater in many of the aquifers has been exhausted, […]