IS ‘mass rape’ of Iraqi minority women is ‘normal’
As the battle to regain Mosul intensifies, a captured Islamic State (IS) militant has said his commanders gave permission for the men to rape as many Yazidi women as they...
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IS to cast long shadow over Iraqi civilians
...northern city of Mosul, to where many of the thousands of expelled Christians are wanting to return, could be made more difficult by its former mix of ethnicities and faiths....
Iraqi Christian couple despair at sight of house IS destroyed
...Continued military and militia presence in some residential areas The Nineveh Plains are very close to Mosul, still partially in the hands of Islamic State, and some areas remain out...
Devastated northern Iraq needs ‘new Marshall Plan’ for reconstruction
The liberated town of Bartella in the Nineveh Plains, 21km east of Mosul, is today a picture of destruction.Open Doors The Archbishop of Erbil in northern Iraq, who is...
Cleaning up towns freed from IS ‘erases evidence of their crimes’
...the UK-based Foundation for Reconciliation and Relief in the Middle East, last month visited a number of towns and villages in the Nineveh Plains area around Mosul that had been...
Pope: ‘Church without martyrs is without Jesus’
...words, and not as something that can be carried away by the wind,” Fr. Karam Shamasha told CNA. He said that he and the other Christians of Telskuf, near Mosul,...
‘Many years’ before Mosul stable enough for Christians to return
Christians and other non-Sunni Muslims from Mosul, northern Iraq, waiting to return after their city’s liberation from Islamic State is completed, may have many years to wait, and their chances...
Christians ‘excluded’ from Iraq’s reconstruction plans
...many Christians fled the Baghdad area for the north, where some towns (such as Qaraqosh) had been almost 95% Christian before 2003. It’s estimated that at the time Mosul was...
Muslims hid Christian woman from IS for years
...neighbours, reports Al Araby. Georgette Hanna did not manage to join the thousands of Christians fleeing Mosul and other towns in the Nineveh plains, like Tel Kaif, in June 2014...
Iraqi Christian: ‘IS made me spit on a Cross and convert to Islam’
...soon as IS found out about them, they told the women to move to nearby Mosul. “We told them that we don’t want to leave; that we belong here,” Zarefa...