Just days shy of Christmas, dozens of Iraqi children fill the stage at the Alliance Evangelical Church in Baghdad’s Karrada neighborhood to sing “Jingle Bells” and rehearse their Nativity play. Odds are it will likely be the city’s last such performance.
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{FD} Life after ISIS: Christians say they can’t go home without international protection
Residents of this small Christian town in northern Iraq were forced to flee when ISIS militants overran it in 2014. But now that the town has been liberated by Iraqi forces, the Christians who have trickled back are desperate to leave once again.
{FD} ISIS sexual violence victims: Minorities targeted more than documented, face honor killings if returned
Yazidi women aren’t the only members of minority communities whom the Islamic State has held as sex slaves.
{FD} ISIS victims in Iraq, Christians and Yazidi, desperately need global aid, Vatican says
The religious minorities of Iraq and Syria have recounted horrific accounts of their abuse at the hand of ISIS as the Vatican calls on the global community to address the plight of Christians and Yazidi communities and bring them back from the verge of extinction.
{FD} Egyptian government has new crackdown target: beauty contests
Egyptian officials are cracking down – on beauty pageants.
{FD} ISIS, private militias threaten Libyan recovery, says former prime minister
As officials in the once-economically thriving nation of Libya struggle to revive oil production and establish peace, two major obstacles threaten its recovery: the influx of ISIS terrorists and the rise of transnational organized crime syndicates.
{FD} Second suspect in London subway attack arrested; terror threat level downgraded to ‘severe’
A second suspect was arrested on Saturday in connection with the subway attack at London’s Parsons Green station that left 30 people injured, officials announced on Sunday as the city’s terror threat level is downgraded to “severe.”
{FD} London subway attack: Second suspect in custody, police say
Police in London said early Sunday that a second suspect has been arrested in connection with Friday’s London subway attack.
{FD} London subway attack: police raid home of couple who took in young refugees
British police raided a Surrey home Saturday that belongs to an elderly couple honored for their work with child refugees as part of the fast-moving investigation into Friday’s London subway bombing that injured 30 people.
{FD} London subway attack: police raid home of couple who took in young Syrian refugees
British police raided a Surrey home Saturday that belongs to an elderly couple honored for their work with child refugees as part of the fast-moving investigation into Friday’s London subway bombing that injured 30 people.
{FD} Iranian TV host under fire after she’s caught not wearing headscarf, apparently drinking beer
A conservative Iranian state television host, who is known for being a proponent of a strict Islamic dress code, is under fire after a video emerged allegedly showing her drinking beer and not wearing a hijab while on vacation.
{FD} How ISIS uses human shields in fighting coalition forces
It’s the stuff of horror movies.
{FD} Turkey’s Assyrians fear annihilation after government seizes church properties
The ongoing legal conflict surrounding the Turkish government’s seizure of dozens of properties from the Syriac Orthodox Church has left the religious minority fearing for their survival in the land where it all began.
{FD} ISIS defeated, but not destroyed, as terror group still holds strategic swaths of Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi this week praised his soldiers for their “big victory” in almost entirely recapturing Mosul from ISIS, but much remains to be done in driving the Muslim terror group from the oil-rich country.
{FD} Orthodox Jewish grade school in UK fails inspection for refusal to teach about sexual orientation
An orthodox Jewish girls’ elementary school in London has failed inspection for the third time because it refuses to teach students about homosexuality and gender reassignment.
{FD} ISIS gunned down pregnant women, babies, former Navy SEAL recalls
Iraqi forces, supported from the air by the U.S.-led coalition, on Thursday closed in on the once ISIS “caliphate” of Mosul.
{FD} London mosque attack victim died from ‘multiple injuries,’ police say
London police said a 51-year-old man found dead after a mosque attack died of “multiple injuries.”
{FD} ISIS urges attacks on Ramadan’s Night of Power, Islam’s holiest day
Law enforcement officials around the world are reported to be on high alert this week as ISIS calls on its supporters to ramp up civilian attacks amid the “Night of Power,” which begins Wednesday evening.
{FD} Hanna Böhman: Meet the Canadian woman joining forces with other women to fight ISIS
Hanna Böhman was working in motorcycle sales after a brief stint in modeling when the 48-year-old Canadian woman sought a higher purpose in life: fighting ISIS in Syria as part of an all-female group of freedom fighters.
{FD} North Korea helping Iran grow its ballistic missile program, details revealed in report
An Iranian opposition group has found 12 sites, not previously disclosed, where the Islamic government is developing ballistic missiles with the help of North Korean experts.
{FD} ICE arrests of Iraqi Christians in US cause detainee families to feel betrayed
Members of the Iraqi Christian community in the U.S. are expressing feelings of betrayal by their adopted country after dozens of members were detained in a deportation sweep.
{FD} Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: How terror group survives, thrives
KABUL, Afghanistan – While terrorist groups such as ISIS and the Taliban now hit headlines far more frequently than the once dominating Al Qaeda (AQ), the Usama bin Laden founded network remains very much alive in Afghanistan.
{FD} Russia preps for Confederations Cup amid fears of violence, racism, terror
Safety is the biggest concern among foreign visitors heading to Russian amid the threat of Islamist terrorism, hooligans, anti-corruption protestors and any crackdown by the country’s security forces.
{FD} ISIS used Mosul church to abuse Yazidi girls, women, Iraqi Army officer says
In the basement of a largely decimated church of eastern Mosul, strewn between the bits of debris and broken glass, remains gut-wrenching reminders of ISIS’s depravity: tiny pieces of pink and yellow underwear along with flower headbands belonging to the very young Yazidi sex slaves the barbaric terrorist group took captive.