Monthly Archives: February 2015

By ANNE BARNARDFEB. 24, 2015 ISTANBUL — Islamic State militants swept into several Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria in recent days, taking scores of hostages, including both civilians and fighters, according to numerous interviews with residents and representatives of the many factions fighting in the area.…

By RAJA ABDULRAHIM Dozens of men, women and children abducted, according to rights groups and residents This week’s kidnappings recall the plight of the Yazidis, a minority religious sect targeted by Islamic State. The Yazidis are seen in this photo fleeing the Syrian border…

by Jordan Schachtel Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have kidnapped dozens of Christians in northern Syria. According to reports, some sources state that as many as 90 were abducted from their homes near Tal Tamr. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad regime monitoring group, said…

Zee Media Bureau Dozens of Assyrian Christians kidnapped from Syrian villages by ISIS Beirut: The dreaded Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted at least 70 Christians from villages in northeastern Syria, as per reports on Tuesday. Women and children were among those who were abducted.…

By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times – This undated file photo posted on Monday, Nov. 4, 2014, by the Raqqa Media Office of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, shows Islamic state group fighters in Kobani, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Office, File)…

In the early morning hours of February 23rd 2015 the terror organization ISIS attacked the Syriac (Assyrian) Christian region of Khabour in the Al-Hassaka governorate in Syria. Khabur region has nearly 35 Syriac villages along the Khabur River (stretching 80 km west fromAl-Hassaka to Ras Al-Ain). Syriac people in North-East Syria started to arm…

Kareem Shaheen in Beirut Militants retreating from Kurdish attack seized 90 Assyrian Christians near Tal Tamr, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Egyptian Coptic Christian captured by Isis A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians captured by Isis with a banner calling for their release. It is believed the men were beheaded.…

BEIRUT: The Islamic State group has kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The Britain-based monitor said the abductions took place on Tuesday after IS seized two Assyrian villages from Kurdish forces in the province of Hassakeh.…

By The Associated Press February 24, 2015 6:18 am FILE – In this photo taken Monday, June 23, 2014, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. Islamic State militants have abducted at least 70 Assyrian……

ISIL’s vehicles are seen on a road through the Syrian-Iraqi border between the Iraqi Nineveh province and Hasakah in Syria. (AFP) The ISIL Takfiri militants in Syria have kidnapped 56 Christians of the Assyrian minority in the northeastern province of Hasakah, sources say.…

DAMASCUS, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — At least 90 Syrian Christians of the Assyrian minority have been confirmed kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) militants from two Assyrian towns in northern Syria, a monitoring group reported Tuesday. The IS militants snatched Monday the 90 Assyrians from the towns of Tal Shamiram…

By John Newton EXTREMIST terror group Islamic State has attacked Christian villages in north-east Syria. The assault took place yesterday (Monday, 23rd February) targeting Assyrian villages in the Khabour region of Syria’s Hassake governorate.…

Press Release On Monday morning, 23 February, ISIS attacked the largely Aramean Christian villages of Tel Hormuz, Tel Shamiram, Tel Riman, Tel Nasra, al-Agibash, Toma Yalda and al-Hauz in the western countryside of the Hasakah province in north-eastern Syria. ISIS massacred a number of Arameans, took hundreds of women and children captive,…

BY POLLY MOSENDZ ISIS fighters wave flags as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province. REUTERS Members of the Islamic State (ISIS) stormed the Tell Tamer area in Syria on Monday morning, taking villagers hostage. The women and children were separated from the…

Since Islamic State militants declared a “caliphate” last year in parts of Iraq and Syria, thousands of Westerners have traveled there to join the battle. But one American man told VOA he has joined the fight, not for the Islamic State jihadist group, but against it. “I am in Iraq helping to raise a Christian…

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by Huyodo The Terror Organisation ‘Islamic State’ started with heavy attacks against our peoples villages in Khabour area next to Hassake. According to our latest information, IS started to attack at 5 am this morning in Tel Tamer Area in villages belonging to our people: Tel Hormiz, Tel Tawil, Qabre Shamiye u Tel Shamiram.…

Photo: Reuters By Frank R. Wolf Modal Trigger How to stop the ISIS genocide campaign Displaced Yazidis cross the Iraqi-Syrian border in August after fleeing their town of Sinjar.…

By MARV KNOX / EDITOR A displaced Iraqi Christian, now living in a converted chicken farm. (Photo: 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative) Christians and other religious minorities in northern Iraq face extermination if people of faith in America and elsewhere in the West fail to speak up on their behalf. A new religious liberty group, the…

An Assyrian Christian militia is trying to keep Isis at bay close to the frontline near Mosul. They are under-resourced and fighting a well-equipped enemy but still hope to return to their heartland. Patrick Cockburn reports from Bakufa Patrick Cockburn Author Biography…