Only 40 Christians Returned to Mosul after Defeat of ISIS
(International Christian Concern) –Mosul’s only priest, Father Imanuel Adel Kloo, has reported that only 40 of the 15,000 Iraqi Christians who used to live in the city have returned home. Mosul was captured More...
Iraq launches Campaign to Rebuild Mosul Churches
(International Christian Concern) –On Wednesday, the Nineveh Governor released a statement saying that Mosul’s local government is making efforts to rebuild churches in West Mosul. The statement says that the More...
Iraq: ICC discusses relief after the ISIS rampage in Mosul, Qaraqosh
(International Christian Concern) –When ISIS attacked Qaraqosh in 2014, thousands of Christians fled in fear. Those unable to flee, including an elderly woman named Latoya, were forced to live under ISIS’s brutal More...
Iraq: Mosul survivor Hala Jaber confirms a Islamic State finding a cell phone could mean death
At the end of each day Farah religiously deleted all text messages, names and numbers from her phone. She then wrapped her SIM card with cling film and squeezed it into the seal of her bathroom window sill, writes More...
State Department, USCIRF condemn ISIL purge of Christians from Mosul, Iraq
UPDATE: Two years later and Iraqis are still reeling from the attacks by Islamic State militants. “Around half-a-million people fled when militants stormed Iraq’s second city in June 2014. Many were displaced More...
White House claims ISIS ‘Number two’ killed, again
The Islamic State terrorist group’s number two was killed during a US air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday, allegedly dealing a blow to the group that has sought to form a caliphate More...
ISIS converts Mosul church into a mosque for jihadists
The Islamic State is converting one of the largest churches in Mosul into a mosque for their Sunni Muslim followers. This news comes just a year after the city fell to ISIS as notices of the conversion have been More...
New ISIS video depicts the beheading of Kurdish fighters
ISIS has published a video purporting to show the beheading of three Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq by Sunni militants who threatened to kill “dozens” more of those being held captive. The six-minute More...
ISIS destroys the ancient cities Khorsabad, Nimrud, Hatra in ‘war crime’
ISIS has destroyed three ancient Iraqi cities over the course of three days, according to reports. The Sunni terrorists conquered Khorsabad, an ancient village that was founded in approximately 720 BC, which followed More...
John Kerry describes campaign against ISIS as ‘weeks and weeks of combat’
Secretary of State John Kerry stated that the White House’s proposed ban on U.S. troops engaging in “enduring offensive ground combat operations” against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was More...
Teen survivor of ISIS kidnapping details rape and forced conversion to Islam
A 15-year-old girl who escaped her Islamic State kidnappers details their forced Islamic teachings or conversions and stated many girls and women were raped. Known as Aria, the girl tells CNN her tale “”In More...
Iraq crisis prompts WHO action: Polio, measles and diarrhea of utmost concern
With the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, the World Health Organization (WHO) is working with local and international partners in Iraq to meet the urgent health needs of populations affected by the ongoing crisis. The More...
