“I have taken on the role of father and mother to my younger sisters,” says Yezidi survivor “Hala Safeel,” who lives with her family in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Hala Safeel fled from the grip of the Islamic State (ISIS), , which committed genocide against her Yezidi people, […]
Iraqi Kurdistan: Muslim stabs his sister 28 times for marrying against the will of the family
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for […]
Erbil strike: Iran says it was firing at ‘secret Israeli bases’ in Iraq
Whatever it was doing, it was also testing Old Joe Biden, and he will certainly fail the test. “Iran claims it fired at ‘secret Israeli bases’ in Iraq,” Israel Hayom, March 13, 2022: Islamic republic’s state media says 12 missiles were fired at “secret Israeli bases” in Erbil, the capital and most populated city in […]
Iraqi Kurdistan: Muslima converts to Christianity, her brother and uncle murder her
The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them […]
Syria: Islamic State women in al Hol camp try to kidnap Kurdish guards, one child killed
Al Hol camp in Syria is notoriously violent. Last month, Jihad Watch reported about aid workers being at risk in Al-Hol camp, following the murder of a medic. Now, at that same camp, there’s another outbreak of violence. As a rule, every non-Muslim individual or group faces a threat of attack when they are in […]
Iraq: Resurgent ISIS jihad attacks leave 10 people dead and four injured
The Kurdish Firat News Agency (ANF News) calls the attackers “ISIS mercenaries.” Who is paying them? “ISIS attacks in Salahaddin and Xaneqîn leave 10 dead and 4 injured,” ANF News, December 28, 2021 (thanks to Henry): An Iraqi soldier was killed and many wounded in two separate explosions in the south of Qeretepe district of […]
Iraq: Kurds find mass grave of victims of the Islamic State
“Kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89; cf. 9:5). “Kurds find mass grave of Islamic State victims in Iraq,” AFP, December 16, 2021: Kurdish forces in northern Iraq find a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 11 Iraqi policemen presumed killed by jihadists, a peshmerga security official says. “A mass grave […]
Iran, the Kurds, and Israel
The population of Iran is only 50% Persian; the rest are Azeris, Kurds, Baluchis, and Arabs, and the government has had to suppress separatist movements among all of these groups. There are about ten million Kurds in Iran, more than 10% of the population. Iran must worry that any success by Kurds in Syria, […]
Iran, Humiliated By Natanz, Claims It Hit ‘Mossad’ Site In Iraq
The Iranians are smarting from the latest Mossad attack, which destroyed much of its new centrifuge plant, built 50 meters underground, at Natanz. There have been dire threats from Iran about taking its revenge on Israel. And the Iranians were quick to announce that they had launched an attack on what they describe as […]
New York Times Feature on Turkey’s Occupation of Kurdish Afrin is Journalistic Ethnic Cleansing
The New York Times recently published an article on Turkish-ruled Afrin, a formerly Kurdish area of Syria that the Kurds have fled, and now is populated by Syrian Arabs who had been living as refugees in Turkey, and then were moved into Afrin by the Turkish military. That article has been widely criticized, mainly because it […]