Tag: Mosul

"I don’t believe in Islam and I would never say I do. I am a Christian and I’d rather leave my home than lie about my faith," Amer says.

Kurdish peshmerga and Iraqi federal forces on Monday launched a major offensive aimed at retaking Mosul, the second city and last major remaining IS stronghold in the country.

ISLAMIC State militants have reportedly destroyed the ancient Christian Mar Behnam Monastery in the predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq on Thursday.

THE militant Islamist group ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) put up posters calling on the people of Mosul to bring them their unmarried girls to participate in “jihad al-nikah,” or sex jihad.

Most of the other Iraqis on the road are very poor, while Lilian an her family are middle class. Most of the other Iraqis fleeing now are doing so because they couldn't afford to before. Lilian and her family are fleeing now because the violence finally hit too close to home.

HUNDREDS of Christian families are among the estimated half-a-million Iraqis who have fled from the northern city of Mosul this week, after its takeover...

AMNESTY International (AI) has asked the Iraqi government to protect the country’s Christian minority from an expected spike in violent attacks as they prepare to celebrate Christmas.

DESPITE suffering some of the deadliest attacks on their community since 2003, most Iraqi Christians are in no mood to call it quits. They want...