YPG spokesman Rêdûr Xelîl announced today that ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) gangs have used chemical weapons in the clashes in Kobanê. He called on international institutions and human rights organisations to carry out an urgent enquiry. Spokesman Rêdûr...
It’s too early to predict the results of the dramatic ISIS offensive in Iraq, but it is clear that the country is now in the midst of a full-blown sectarian war. In a stunning and deeply significant development, the fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria...
Syria Daily – Scott Lucas – June 13, 2014 With its sudden advance in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham has taken headlines from the Assad regime and Syria’s opposition. Since January — just as it was claiming cities in Anbar Province in western...
Accounts of Cases Raise Fair Trial Concerns June 13, 2014 LONDON,— The Iranian authorities should quash the death sentences of 33 Sunni Muslim men, including possibly a juvenile offender, convicted of “enmity against God” (moharebeh), and impose an immediate...
June 13, 2014, KIRKUK, Iraq’s border with Kurdistan region,— Kurdish Peshmerga leaders say that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has began shelling areas south of Kirkuk, where Peshmerga forces stepped in to fill in deserted Iraqi Army positions. In...
Loveday Morris & Liz Sly, The Washington Post, 13/06/214 IRBIL, Iraq — Iraq was on the brink of falling apart Thursday as al-Qaeda renegades asserted their authority over Sunni areas in the north, Kurds seized control of the city of Kirkuk and the Shiite-led...
