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Christian leaders express shock at world silence after ISIS expels Iraqi Christians

Roula Ibrahim

The patriarchal residence in the town of Atchanah in Lebanon’s Metn region brought together yesterday representatives of the churches of Mosul five...

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Baghdadi attacks Gulf leaders in taped sermon, world powers mull response to ISIS threat

Sami Kleib

There was no mention of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s speech. However, he did make a statement that Gulf leaders...

Monday, July 7, 2014

Forty-six Indian nurses trapped in Mosul to be freed

A group of 46 Indian nurses trapped in Iraq's weeks-long conflict are to be freed and will head to the Kurdish regional capital Erbil, one of the...

Friday, July 4, 2014

Iraqi soldiers beat Bangladeshi workers for "sympathizing" with jihadis

Hundreds of Bangladeshi construction workers have been beaten and humiliated by soldiers in Iraq after becoming dragged into their host country's...

Thursday, July 3, 2014

ISIS poses a threat to Iraq’s economy

Hassan Chakrani

It was a historic moment in 2011 that brought many questions and challenges too: Iraq’s output had crossed the threshold of 2.5 million barrels per...

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Al-Qaeda affiliates keeping a watchful eye on ISIS' conquests

Radwan Mortada

Iraq’s second major city has fallen. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has seized Mosul. But how do their rivals read the conquests of ISIS...

Friday, June 20, 2014