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3000 Yezidi Girls still Missing at Hands of Daesh/ISIL: “It costs more for a girl with blue eyes”
BBC News | — “Kurdish authorities say Pershmerga forces are making headway in the Northern Iraqi town of Sinjar and have taken control of a […]
Not the Onion: Pakistanis Demand arrest of Cleric for not Condemning “Jihadis”
AJ+ |– “Pakistanis are calling for the arrest of a Muslim cleric, Abdul Aziz, who refused to condemn the recent Pakistan Attack that led to […]
The Yezidis: People of an Ancient Faith Battle Ethnic Cleansing
By Richard Foltz | (Special to Informed Comment) — Among the many victims of the barbarous Daesh (what Arabs call ISIS or ISIL), none has […]
Tunisia: Nationalist Candidate’s claimed win in Presidential Poll Contested
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — The major political parties do fairly sophisticated exit polling in Tunisian elections now, and secular, nationalist warhorse Beji […]
Israel Turns Beersheba Mosque into Museum, while 10,000 have no place to Pray
BEERSHEBA (Ma’an) — Authorities in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba have recently converted an historic mosque into an Islamic museum despite the fact that […]
The *Other* Torture Report: What the USA looks like to the World
(special to Informed Comment) — At long last – despite the attempts at sabotage by, and over the protests of the CIA, and notwithstanding the […]
How the Iraq Wars began with the Invasion of Panama
By Greg Grandin | (Tomdispatch.com) — As we end another year of endless war in Washington, it might be the perfect time to reflect on […]
Anthony Bourdain on Iran and Beirut (Bisley Interview)
By Alexander Bisley | (Special to Informed Comment) — “By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, […]
Kurds inflict first Major Defeat on Daesh/ ISIL, Rescue Yezidis of Sinjar
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — The pan-Arab London daily, Al-Hayat [Life] reports that the Iraqi Kurdistan paramilitary, the Peshmerga, have taken Mt. Sinjar […]
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