With Turkey enforcing an economic blockade on Kurdish-controlled areas neighbouring the extremists’ stronghold, residents have little choice but to cross over into the relatively prosperous city.
In the ruins of the Old City, residents who escape increasingly desperate militants are then faced with Iraqi troops suspicious of suicide […]
Anger at Israeli killings of Palestinians has distracted from Hamas’ leadership failure.
Yazidis join Shiite militias as they flush out ISIL militants from the village of Kocho in southern Sinjar.
The Kurds and the Shiite units have proven ISIL’s most effective opponents, but in Jalawla, the differences between the reluctant brothers in […]
