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Feb 9 2015 5:33pm
Yezidi women in Iraq face sexual violence from Islamic State fighters
Thousands of Yezidi women and girls in Iraq have had their lives shatt...
Dec 23 2014 11:51am
Iraq: new briefing on Yezidi women and girls kidnapped and turned into sex slaves by Islamic State
‘Many of those held as sexual slaves are children - girls aged 14, ...
Dec 8 2014 11:52am
New call for release of British pensioner detained in Iraq for past five years
Ramze Shihab Amhed, detained since December 2009, received 15-year s...
Dec 2 2014 12:00am
New briefing on Yezidi women and girls kidnapped and turned into sex slaves by Islamic State
Torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, suffere...
Nov 3 2014 4:26pm
Stoking the fire of Iraq's sectarian conflict
Unlike nearby villages recently captured by the Peshmerga forces of th...
Oct 14 2014 5:33pm
Our mission to northern Iraq
[View the story "ISIS in northern Iraq: eyewitness reports from our...
Oct 14 2014 10:12am
Iraq: The rise of militia rule
Against the current backdrop of lawlessness and sectarian violence, Sh...
Oct 14 2014 12:00am
Iraq: government-backed Shi'a militias abducting and killing Sunnis in anti-ISIS revenge attacks - new briefing
In one single day more than 30 Sunni men were abducted from or near...
Sep 10 2014 4:21pm
A letter from a Syrian activist to an American mother
To the mother of James Foley, I want to express my sincerest condolen...
Sep 3 2014 6:25pm
Steven Sotloff killing is 'tip of the iceberg' of Islamic State crimes in Syria and Iraq
‘The execution of Steven Sotloff is a war crime’ - Philip Luther ...