Special to WorldTribune.com The U.S. Marines launched a series of air strikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) targets in Iraq on Nov. 19, the Pentagon said. The strikes were said to be part of the Obama administration’s vow to escalate its air campaign in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Yazidis are said to have burned and looted homes of Muslims in the Iraqi town of Sinjar as revenge for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) brutal slaughter of Yazidis last year. According to witnesses in Sinjar, the Yazidis were burning homes that had been marked “Sunni” by ISIL after it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A grave holding the remains of dozens of Yazidi women deemed by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) too old to be kept as sex slaves was discovered in the Iraqi town of Sinjar on Nov. 14. Iraqi officials said they found the bodies of 78 women, all aged between 40 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes have pushed out Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and liberated the Iraqi town of Sinjar, Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani said on Nov. 13. “I am here to announce the liberation of Sinjar,” Barzani told a news conference near the northern […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iraqi Kurdish forces, supported by a U.S.-led air campaign, have launched an offensive aimed at recapturing the strategic town of Sinjar from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant militants in northern Iraq. The attack by Peshmerga forces began at 7 a.m. local time on Nov. 12 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration is ignoring the plight of Iraq’s Yazidis who fled Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) terror rampage last year, reports say. Nearly all Yazidis who have applied for asylum in the Unites States have been turned away. The Yazidi faith includes elements of Christianity, ancient nature-worship, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has launched an offensive against Iraq’s northern autonomous region of Kurdistan. ISIL has been battling forces sponsored by the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq. On Aug. 3, ISIL captured two Kurdish towns and a crude oil field in what was termed a […]