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The letter says: “many Christian refugees, having been terrorised by IS in Syria and Iraq, have had to leave the refugee camps because of cruelties inflicted upon them inside the camps”.

THE militia was formed in late June 2014 — directly after the fall of Mosul — and first went into battle three months later at Camp Speicher, a former U.S. military base outside the city of Tikrit.

A surge in the number of people crossing into Turkey has increased the total by one million in just 10 months.

MEANWHILE over 200 Assyrian Christians remain captured by terror group ISIS, taken from a raid on Assyrian villages back in February.

The Huthis, allied with army units loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, have been fighting forces supporting President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has fled to the Saudi capital Riyadh.

The Church of the Virgin Mary was originally built in 1934 and is one of three main churches in the Assyrian village of Tal Nasri, which is located to the south of Tal Tamr town that was earlier overrun by ISIS.

“People say, ‘You’re crazy for doin’ this,'” explained Felton. “I think people are crazy for not doing their part, to be honest with you.”

POSING as a 15-year-old curious about joining the Islamic State, an investigative reporter was asked by a jihadi recruiter to come quickly to Syria and to “bring lingerie.”

WHEN a reporter for CNN accused the White House of “tiptoeing through the tulips” by avoiding references to radical Islamist terrorists, White House press secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged that most recent terrorist attacks have their roots in Muslim ideology.

THE organisation, the Nineveh Plains Protection Units, has more than 4,000 troops serving or awaiting training, and has the backing of the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Peshmerga.