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Iraq

Yazidi men freed from ISIS captivity, reunite with families after years of separation

2025-04-28

[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have rescued two Yazidi men from the grip of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) after years in captivity, an affiliate of the Iraqi labor ministry confirmed to Rudaw on Sunday. This marks the second such rescue by the SDF in under two weeks.

The individuals, identified by Rudaw by their initials D.R. and O.K., were reunited with their families under the supervision of the Yazidi Affairs Office, an affiliate of the Iraqi ministry of labor.

Born in 2003, D.R. is from the village of Kocho (Kojo), while O.K., born in 2006, hails from the village of al-Wardiya. Both villages are located in the predominantly Yazidi district of Shingal (Shingal) in northern Iraq.

In June 2014, ISIS seized control of large swathes of territory in Iraq’s north and west. A little over a month later, in August, the group launched a wide-scale attack against the Yazidi community in Iraq's northern Shingal.

The rescued captives, D.R. and O.K, "were kidnapped by ISIS Lions of Islam in 2014," Sarab Ilias, head of the Yazidis affairs office at the Iraqi ministry of labor told Rudaw on Sunday.

"Unfortunately, during [the military] operations and bombings, D.R. lost a leg and O.K. lost an arm," Ilias explained, adding that the two men were "reunited with their families," who currently reside in Shingal and the Qadiya camp located in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province.

Notably, this is the second such operation led by the Kurdish-led SDF in less than two weeks.

The SDF in mid-April announced that they had rescued a Yazidi man who had been kidnapped by ISIS around 11 years ago, when he was just eight years old.

The Kurdish-led force then said that its military units carried out a "special security operation" to free the kidnapped Yazidi identified as O.K.

O.K. was quoted by the SDF statement as sharing the harrowing story of his abduction by ISIS.

"I was born in 2006, and I was just a child when ISIS kidnapped me in 2014. ISIS captured me and my family, but separated me and my brother."

He said that he was held in the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, which ISIS in 2014 declared as the capital of its proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq. He remained in Mosul for three months before being separated from his brother and transferred, along with 60 other Yazidi children, to the city of Albu Kamal in eastern Syria.

"After arriving in al-Bukamal, ISIS subjected us to a three-year religious indoctrination course. I was given the name ’Osama al-Sinjari.’ Then we were moved to the Syrian desert for another three years of military training," he recounted.

O.K. noted that near the end of 2024 and "while I was getting treatment at one of the ISIS hideouts in the Homs desert, the hideout was struck by an intense ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
<del>Arclight</del> airstrike

...KABOOM!...
from the [US-led] Global Coalition [to Defeat ISIS], which resulted in the death of 20 terrorists, including high-ranking commanders."

"I miraculously survived the bombing," he said, expressing his relief and gratitude toward the SDF for "liberating him and thousands of other Yazidis, particularly women, from the grip of ISIS."

ISIS’s 2014 assault on Shingal resulted in the abduction of 6,417 Yazidi women and kiddies, many of whom were subjected to sexual slavery and forced labor. Despite being territorially defeated in Iraq by 2017 and in Syria by 2019, ISIS continues to pose a security threat in the region.

The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
has recognized the systematic targeting of the Yazidis as genocide. Up to 200,000 Yazidis were displaced from Shingal, many of whom now live in camps across the Kurdistan Region, particularly in Dohuk province.

As of now, 2,590 Yazidis remain missing, according to the Office of Rescuing Abducted Yazidis, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency.

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Iraq

Remains of 32 Yazidi victims return to Shingal

2025-02-22

[Rudaw] Following the exhumation process and identification, the remains of 32 Yazidi victims of the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) will be returned to Shingal (Sinjar) on Friday for burial.

"After their arrival on Friday, a religious ceremony will be organized to honor the remains on Saturday. Official death certificates will be handed over to their families. On Sunday, a funeral will be held to bury them," Kheiri Ali, director of the Shingal-based Petricor Organization for Human Rights, told Rudaw on Thursday.

Nineteen of the victims are from Kojo village while the rest come from Qne and Snune villages, he said.

ISIS murderous Moslems seized control of Shingal in August 2014 and committed genocide. In the space of a few weeks, an estimated more than 5,000 people were killed, mainly men and older women. As of February 2025, 93 mass graves have been identified, 58 of which have been uncovered and more than 700 remains have been retrieved. The identity of 242 victims were previously verified through DNA tests. There are yet 500 remains in Baghdad whose identities need to be confirmed before returning them to Shingal for burial.

Although the excavation of the mass graves started in 2019 after announcing total military victory over ISIS, the process has been slow as there are 35 more graves that need to be exhumed. Ali said that identification of the remains has been slow because of difficulties getting DNA samples from the many Yazidis who fled Iraq during or after ISIS atrocities, as well as the large numbers of remains that the forensic department is handling after exhuming other mass graves, including those associated with Saddam Hussein’s genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Ghana: floods displace 26,000 people in the east of the country

2023-10-31

[AFRICANEWS] The Lower Volta Basin in Ghana is grappling with a dire situation following the release of excess water from the Akosombo and Kpong dams, leading to severe flooding.

The resilient residents are fighting against both the fury of nature and the deluge caused by man-made actions, with their very existence hanging in the balance.

46-year-old Kojo Atsu is one of over 25,000 people who are now homeless.

He and his family were saved just before his three-bedroom apartment collapsed.

Many others have lost their businesses to the floodwaters.

Residents watch helplessly while their homes and farms continue to be submerged across six districts:

" The water situation in this community is very-very bad for us, more than one week, we couldn’t do anything about this water."

Critical installations, including hospitals, morgues, schools, banks, and marketplaces are all underwater.

The national disaster management organization, NADMO, with support from the Ghana navy and other security agencies are frantically working to relocate the affected people.

Samuel Okudjetou Ablawa is MP for north Tongu: I will demand a probe into this affair, people must not get away so the most importantly, there will be reforms and this will not recourse. And then we must be thinking about an engineering solution as a country.

The Akosombo and Kpong dams play a crucial role in providing hydroelectric power producing about 1,072 megawatts of Ghana's total energy mix.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Meet the Harvard Students Supporting Hamas' Invasion of Israel

2023-10-11

[TOWNHALL] In the wake of Hamas’ brutal surprise attack against Israel, 34 Harvard student organizations recently signed a joint statement blaming Israel for the attack and expressing support for Palestine.

“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” the letter read.

“The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years.”

To date, the Hamas invasion has killed over 900 Israeli citizens, and at least 11 American citizens. Reports of Hamas raping Israeli women, and videos of militants holding Israeli children in cages, have flooded social media. In one violent spectacle, Hamas militants paraded the naked, dead body of a German woman through the streets of Gaza in the back of a vehicle.

In some cases, Hamas terrorists even uploaded images or videos of their victims on the victims’ own social media accounts.

Despite such horrific brutality, the Harvard student groups offered Hamas their public support and blamed Israel for the murder and rape of its own citizens.

Townhall has identified the student leaders of several of those groups. Their names are listed below.

GRADUATE STUDENT LEADERS WHOSE GROUPS SUPPORT THE HAMAS INVASION

Harvard Muslim Law School Association

Hussain Awan ’25 (Co-President)

Hussain Awan is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past July, Awan worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, under Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.

Before that, Awan worked in Tunisia as a legal intern for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). IDEA is an “intergovernmental organization (IGO) with a mandate to support sustainable democracy worldwide.” IDEA also received $320,000 from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation between 2016 and 2017.

Reema Doleh ’25 (Co-President)

Reema Doleh is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Doleh worked as a legal intern for Legal Services NYC. Before that, she worked as a paralegal in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office from January 2022 to July 2022.

Ariq Hatibie ’24 (Executive Board Member)

Ariq Hatibie is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. Hatibie is currently the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

This past summer, Hatibie worked as a summer associate at White & Case LLP. The previous summer, Hatibie worked as a legal intern for TRIAL International, a Soros-funded legal group which claims to fight against “impunity for international crimes and supporting victims in their quest for justice.”

Additionally, Hatibie works as a research assistant for Harvard Law Professor Salma Waheedi. In 2022, Waheedi signed a letter with Harvard faculty expressing “solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and self-determination.”

In the letter, Waheedi and her colleagues claim “Unwavering US financial, military, and political support has fueled an apartheid system that institutionalizes the domination and repression of Palestinians.”

Waheedi currently teaches a course on “Law, Human Rights, and Social Justice in Israel-Palestine.”

Saeed Ahmad ’24 (Executive Board Member)

Saeed Ahmad is third-year student at Harvard Law School. He currently works as a Research Assistant to Professor Intisar Rabb, in Harvard’s Program in Islamic Law.

This past summer, Ahmad worked as a Summer Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, under Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah. After graduation, Ahmad will work as an associate for the prestigious law firm Sidley Austin LLP, according to his LinkedIn.

Saeed is also a member of the Harvard South Asian Law Students Association, another student group that signed the statement supporting Hamas.

Hejir Rashidzadeh ’25 (Executive Board Member)

Hejir Rashidzadeh is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Rashidzadeh worked as an associate at Alston & Bird, a prestigious law firm known for its intellectual property work.

Hurya Ahmed ’25 (Vice President of Communications)

Hurya Ahmed is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Ahmed interned with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from June 2023 to August 2023.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LEADERS WHOSE GROUPS SUPPORT THE HAMAS INVASION

African American Resistance Organization

Leadership

Kojo Acheampong ’26 (Co-Founder)
Kiersten B. Hash ’25 (Co-Founder)
Amari M. Butler ’25 (Co-Founder)
Clyve Lawrence ’25 (Co-Founder)
Prince A. Williams ’25 (Co-Founder)

Harvard Islamic Society

Leadership

Maryam Tourk ‘25 (Co-President)

Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo

Leadership

Hana Rehman '25 (Director)
Jasleen Kaur ’25 (Director)
Karina Mahida ‘25 (Director)

Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association

Leadership

Anusha Adhikari ’26 (Co-President)
Ishan Tiwari ‘25 (Co-President)
Samaga Pokharel ‘26 (Communications VP)
Kashish Bastola ’26 (Advocacy VP)
Aashish Palikhey ‘26 (Finance VP)

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Father who helped son attack 12-year-old boy sentenced to five years in prison

2021-05-14

[KOMONEWS] A judge in Washington state has sentenced a Mill Creek man to five years in prison after he held down a 12-year-old boy while his son stabbed him last year.
"Lunchroom dispute, wuzzit? Can't let that go unavenged!"
The Daily Herald reported that Superior Court Judge Richard Okrent sentenced 44-year-old Martinez D. Mitchell on Tuesday after he was found guilty of third-degree assault last month in Snohomish County Superior Court.
"Here, son! I'll sit on his head and you stab 'im with this here switchblade!"
Police responded on June 10 to a stabbing at the Heatherwood Apartments. Police said the boy, who was not identified, was taken to Harborview Medical Center where he was treated for non-fatal injuries.
"Shouldn't I shoot him, Pop? All the other black kids shoot 'em!"
"We're outta bullets after that dispute with Jones over us mowin' the grass at 3 a.m. You can pistol whip 'im after you've stabbed him!"
Mitchell told the court he felt sorry for his "negligence and poor judgment."
"[STAB! STABBED! STABBEN!] This is so blackly cultural!"
"Aaaaiiiieeee! I do be undone!"
"Golly! You're the best Dad ever!"

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The Grand Turk

Ankara: We will secure Iraq's share of water

2021-05-07

[SHAFAQ] The ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish consul in Nineveh, Muhammad Kojok, reiterated on Thursday his country's readiness to secure Iraq's share of water amid the current crisis.

This came in a presser held after a meeting with the head of the local government, Najm al-Jubouri.

Kojok discussed several topics during the conference he held with al-Jubouri, the most prominent of which is the water crisis afflicting Iraq, pointing out, "The ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish and Iraqi sides are following up on this file; we have taken very remarkable steps in this regard."

He said that ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
has not and will not leave the Iraqi people without water, adding, "we will reach satisfying results."

Kojok revealed that a ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish delegation might survey the water issue, starting from the djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Dam.

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Caribbean-Latin America

'Disturbing' new tactics: Mexican cartels use ultralight aircraft to smuggle illegals into U.S.

2018-12-21

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style='float:right;border:1px solid midnightblue;padding:3px;margin:3px;' />[Wash Times] Border Patrol agents tracked an ultralight aircraft as it crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and made it 30 miles into the country early Tuesday morning ‐ and when they got to the landing spot, they found two Chinese men who had been smuggled in by the aircraft.

The ultralight had escaped, lifting back off and returning to Mexico, but agents say they did manage to nab a Mexican man waiting in a vehicle near the landing zone in southern California, apparently ready to pick up the Chinese men and deliver them to their destination.

Experts said they had seen ultralights, small aircraft powered by lawn mower-sized engines, used to drop loads of drugs in the U.S. But they were surprised to see them being used to ferry illegal immigrants.

"It’s disturbing," said Chris Harris, who retired this year after a two-decade career as a Border Patrol agent in San Diego and who suggested it could be a way for cartels to get dangerous people across the border. "If you want to get some operatives in this country very quickly, that’s a way."

Gloria I. Chavez, chief patrol agent in the El Centro sector of the Border Patrol, agreed that ultralights pose a threat to "national security."

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The Grand Turk

Erdogan Says Turkey Will Increase Troop Numbers in Cyprus

2018-09-18

Sultans gotta sultan.

[AnNahar] ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
has vowed that Ankara will increase rather than reduce its troops numbers in Cyprus, a move that could further set back attempts to reunify the divided Mediterranean island.

In comments published in ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish media Monday, Erdogan added that ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
had no need for a naval base on Cyprus as mooted in some reports but could establish such a facility if it was necessary from a "psychological" point of view.

"No, we are not going to reduce the numbers of our troops. We will increase them, we are not going to decrease them," he told ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish news hounds traveling back with him from a trip to Azerbaijan.

He expressed impatience over the Cyprus issue, saying "this business would have been solved" if the Greek Cypriots had backed unification in an April 2004 referendum on a plan put forward by the late former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan

...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
While ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish Cypriots were overwhelmingly in favour of the plan, Greek Cypriots voted against.

"Henceforth we will implement the formula that we have declared for ourselves," said Erdogan, without elaborating.

Cyprus has been divided since the 1974 ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish invasion which occupied the northern third of the island in response to a Greek military junta-sponsored coup.

Turkey is believed to maintain around 35,000 troops in northern Cyprus, although the military does not give official figures.

The withdrawal -- or drastic reduction -- of Turkey's military presence is seen as key to any reunification plan being acceptable to the Greek Cypriot side.

Some conservative ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish media have also reported in recent weeks that Turkey was planning to open a naval base on Cyprus, a move that would likely deal a terminal blow to any reunification hopes.

But Erdogan said "we have no need to build a base there," noting that unlike Greece, Turkey was just "minutes away" from the coast of Cyprus.

But he appeared to leave the door open to such a move as a way of making a political statement.

"This issue just has a psychological dimension. In this respect, if we felt the need, we could establish a base. Our presence there is important," Erdogan said.

There were high hopes at the beginning of 2017 that U.N.-backed talks could clinch a breakthrough in the long-running stalemate on reuniting the island.

But the deadlock has not been broken and analysts say rapid progress is unlikely for the moment as Erdogan reaches out to the nationalist electorate in Turkey.

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Southeast Asia

Myanmar will take back displaced Rohingyas

2017-10-25

[Dhaka Tribune] Myanmar has agreed to the repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland and implementation of the recommendations made by the final report of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State.

Dhaka and Naypyidaw
...generally translated as royal capital, seat of the king or abode of kings because the general in charge had a massive ego. It was founded in 2002 because Rangoon was worn out. Traditionally, Naypyidaw was used as a suffix to the names of royal capitals, such as Mandalay, which was called Yadanabon Naypyidaw in Burmese...
will form a joint working group in this regard by November 30, reports BSS.

It said the decisions were taken at a home minister-level bilateral meeting between Bangladesh and Myanmar officials on security and law enforcement matters in Naypyidaw on Tuesday.

Apart from discussing cooperation and security and law enforcement issues, both sides also signed two Memorandums of Understandings during the meeting, BSS reported quoting a message from Home Ministry spokesperson Sharif Mahmood Apu sent from Naypyidaw.

One of them was on setting up a Border Liaison Office and the other on Security Cooperation and Dialogue, he said.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who flew to Myanmar on Monday, is leading a delegation to hold talks with the neighbouring country on a number of unresolved issues including the ongoing Rohingya crisis.

Sharif also said that the minister was scheduled to make a courtesy call on Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi at 10am (local time) on Wednesday.

The Bangladesh delegation is expected to return home on Wednesday ending their three-day visit.

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan

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PM: Myanmar must take the Rohingya back

2017-09-12

[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister ~~the loathesome~~ Sheikh Hasina

...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
has again urged Myanmar to take back the Rohingya people currently residing in Bangladesh, stressing that measures taken by the Bangladesh government to provide refuge to the Rohingya are temporary.

Speaking at parliament on Monday, the prime minister said: "Several times, I have requested Myanmar to repatriate the Rohingya as they are their nationals." She further added that she would raise the issue with the UN General Assembly.

"There are about 145 ethnic communities in Myanmar. The Myanmar government had given the Rohingya the same rights as other ethnic communities, but later the Myanmar junta hijacked their rights. I do not understand why the Myanmar government is doing this to the Rohingya," the prime minister said.

"I would like to ask the Myanmar government: What result do they expect after forcing the Rohingya people out of their homeland?"

Hasina also asked why Myanmar was not following the recommendations set by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State led by Kofi Annan

...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
, saying since Myanmar had created the problem, they also needed to resolve it.

She also urged the authorities concerned to swiftly locate and bring to justice those responsible for the attacks on border outposts on August 25 that led to the renewed violence against the minority Rohingya people in the Buddhist-majority Rakhine state.

The prime minister further assured that the Rohingya would not be obstructed from entering Bangladesh.

"We are providing food to 160 million people, we can manage food for an additional 700,000," she said at parliament.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
she was also quick to clarify that she wished for them to return to their homeland.

"Myanmar has to consider the Rohingya Myanmar nationals. A Myanmar general called them Bangalis. Of course, they are Bangalis. But there are Bangalis in India, too. The measures we have taken to shelter the Rohingya are temporary. Myanmar must take back their nationals."

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The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi Edition

2017-08-27

3 Kids die in bombing attack in Fallujah

Fallujah (IraqiNews.com) Five children were killed and wounded when a leftover landmine exploded east of Fallujah, a paramilitary commander said on Friday.

Gomaa al-Jumaili, a senior commander at the Popular Mobilization Forces in al-Karma region told Baghdad Today that an explosive device from Islamic State remnant landmines exploded, killing three children and wounding two others.

Iraqi government forces had recaptured Karma from IS militants in May 2016

Several incidents of remnant explosives killing civilians at areas retaken from IS have been reported over the past months. Millions of landmines from Iraq’s past wars, including the three-year-war against the Islamic State militants, still await removal.

Islamic State militants are still holding areas in western Anbar near the borders with Syria, and Iraqi government and paramilitary forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition warplanes, have regularly bombarded or cleared surrounding areas, leaving hundreds of militants dead. Anbar is one of the next targets marked by Iraqi government forces which are currently battling IS out of Tal Afar, Islamic State’s last haven in Nineveh province.

Iraqi warplanes reportedly dropped thousands of messages on IS havens west of Anbar in July telling citizens that military invasions of those areas were imminent, and advising them to stay away from militants’ gatherings.

ISIS Press Gangs busy in Anbar

Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State carried out random arrests in western Anbar seeking compulsory recruitment, a security source from the province said.

“IS launched campaigns of random arrests in Qaim at checkpoints or even against whoever doesn’t hold an ID card,” the source told Alghad Press on Saturday.

“These campaigns seek compulsory recruitment ordered by the militant group on people at the western regions,” the source added.

Earlier this month, three brothers under the age of 15 years old were reportedly killed by the group in Qaim over refusing to join the group as well as the compulsory recruitment.

Anbar’s western towns of Anah, Qaim and Rawa are still held by the extremist group since 2014, when it occupied one third of Iraq to proclaim a self-styled Islamic Caliphate. Iraqi troops were able to return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them.

In late July, a military source was quoted saying that Lt.Gen Abdul-Amir Yarallah, commander of the Nineveh Operations, ordered to besiege IS havens in western Anbar preparing to invade them.

Fighter jets from the Iraqi army and the international coalition regularly pound IS locations in the province.

ISIS classifies female sex slaves

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Subjecting women from the Iraqi Yazidi minority to sexual slavery, Islamic State militants would separate attractive women from less attractive ones, a survivor has said in an interview.

Dubai-based Al Arabiya network interviewed Bivrin (an approximate spelling of the name mentioned in the Arabic report) whose family was taken by IS militants to Mosul from their home village of Kojo. She gave just another firsthand account of forced marriages and sexual slavery the religious minority had endured since the emergence of the extremist group in 2014.

When she and her elder fell into IS captivity, Bivrin was sent to a house in Mosul used as a females’ detention facility for being “not beautiful” as she heard her captors saying, while her more attractive sister was sent to Raqqa, the group’s base in Syria.

At one day, a fellow hostage was beaten, humiliated by the militants to force her to take a bath and put on skimpy clothes, which she resisted and committed suicide by cutting her own veins.

“We never saw her body, the militants had tane her away and never knew where she ended up to,” Bivrin said in the video of the interview.

“I once saw a (IS) member take four sisters (to be his pleasure subjects),” Bivrin told the interviewer.

The United Nations has recently urged Iraq to ensure protection for victims of Islamic State sexual slavery.

“Women and girls under the control of ISIL, in particular women from the Yezidi and other minority communities, have been especially vulnerable to abuses of human rights and violation of international humanitarian law,” the report by the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) and the UN Human Rights Office said last week. It said victims had been subjected to rape and sexual assault, forced displacement, abduction, deprivation of liberty, slavery, forced religious conversion, and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.

A statistic released by the Kurdistan Region Government’s Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry said Islamic State’s massacres of Yazidis forced nearly 360.000 of the religious minority to flee their areas, with 90.000 of those heading abroad.

IS kidnapped 6417 Yazidis since 2014, the report added. Those include 1102 women and 1655 children, the statistics showed.

The calamity rendered 2645 kids parentless, including 220 whose parents are still under IS captivity, the ministry revealed.

Authorities ran into 43 mass graves of Yazidi victims slaughtered by IS, according to the statistic.

ISIS enforces use of its own scrip in Anbar

Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants issued directives on Friday in Anbar to punish whoever uses a currency other than the ones issued by the group.

During Friday sermons, Islamic State preachers at the group’s havens on Annah, Rawa and Qaim, west of Anbar, obliged civilians to use coins issued by the group’s “finance bureau”, threatening public whipping for violators.

Past reports had told of the group imposing the currency at other havens in Syria and also in Mosul, its former capital which Iraqi forces recaptured in July.

Islamic State militants have held the three towns since 2014, when they occupied a third of Iraq to proclaim their self-styled “caliphate”. So far, there has not been a wide-scale campaign to retake those regions, but occasional offensives by government forces and allied Popular Mobilization Forces have managed to take over several surrounding villages.

The Iraqi government declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul, the group’s former capital in Iraq, in July, and said it was going to proceed towards other group holdouts, including Anbar. Government troops are currently battling Is out of Tal Afar, west of Nineveh.

Late July, Iraqi army warplanes reportedly dropped millions of messages on western Anbar telling locals that liberation offensives for the province were nearing, and advising them to stay away from militants’ deployments.

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Another prison for detaining Yazidis found in Qairawan, west of Mosul

2017-05-26

[Iraq News] The paramilitary troops have seized another prison of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
hard boyz in Qairawan region, west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
city.

In statements on Thursday, the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said "the 40th brigade seized another Islamic State prison inside a house in the liberated region of Qairawan... which was used to detain the kidnapped Yazidi women."

"The prison is a small place with different tools for torturing," according to the media service.

Earlier on Thursday, the troops liberated villages of Kojo and Tal Ghazi villages, in addition to al-Hatmiya and Qabousiya, northeast of Baaj. Twenty IS hard boyz were killed while two villages of northern and southern Biski were liberated.

PMUs resumed on Wednesday evening the second phase of operations to liberate the remaining villages in the vicinity of Qairawan and Baaj.

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