Boko Haram emerges as brutal Islamic State of Africa
USA Today: Boko Haram, with its chilling brutality, radical Islamic ideology and unstoppable seizure of Nigerian territory is quickly emerging as the Islamic State of Africa.
View ArticleColorado teen who tried to join ISIS gets 4-year sentence
New York Mag: Shannon Maureen Conley, a 19-year-old nurse's aide from Colorado who wanted to join the terrorist group ISIS, appeared in a hijab and civilian clothes for her sentencing hearing Friday....
View ArticleParadise lost: is Christianity doomed in the Middle East?
New Statesman: The stark cliffs of the Zagros Mountains on the Iran-Iraq border, and the dusty hills and plains that lie between those mountains and the city of Mosul, might seem an unlikely location...
View ArticleReport: 20,000 ISIS supporters worldwide have flocked to Iraq, Syria to join...
Christian News Network: Supporters of the terrorist group ISIS are flocking to Iraq and Syria at record rates with an estimated 20,000 foreign fighters joining the barbarian organization worldwide,...
View ArticleReport: ISIS just kidnapped a group of at least 90 Christians, including...
Relevant: The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is reporting that ISIS militants have abducted at least 90 people after raiding an Assyrian Christian village.
View ArticleMonitors: ISIL abducts 90 Assyrian Christians in Syria
Al Jazeera: The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said...
View ArticleOn hating IS and loving people
Patheos: I do not wish a single person’s death but IS must be destroyed and sadly there are men and women who have freely chosen to link themselves to this evil organization. They have committed crimes...
View ArticleFate of Syrian Christians kidnapped by ISIS still unknown
Aleteia: Christian aid groups were expecting to hear about the fate of some 150 Syrian Christian hostages today, but a promised ISIS announcement about the captives was not forthcoming.
View ArticleAir strikes hit Islamic State in Syria after Christians abducted
Reuters: A U.S.-led alliance launched air strikes against Islamic State on Thursday in an area of northeast Syria where the militants are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians...
View ArticleSyrian Kurds cut IS supply line near Iraq; fears for Christians mount
Reuters: Kurdish militia pressed an offensive against Islamic State in northeast Syria on Wednesday, cutting one of its supply lines from Iraq, as fears mounted for dozens of Christians abducted by the...
View Article72 Assyrian Christian families captured, 50 besieged by IS after Syria attack
WorldWatch Monitor: Sources from Syria’s embattled Hassaka province confirmed at midnight on Tuesday, Feb. 24, that at least 72 Assyrian Christian families - thought to be around 200 people - from...
View ArticleActivists: Number of Christians abducted by Islamic State rises to 220
Crux: The number of Christians abducted by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria has risen to 220 in the past three days, as militants round up more hostages from a chain of villages along a...
View ArticleInside ISIS: A Time Special Report
Time Magazine: More formidable than its al-Qaeda precursors in the view of many experts, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is more than a network of terrorist cells or even a militia:...
View ArticleISIS’ apocalyptic endgame: They want to defeat Christian crusaders —...
NY Daily News: This week, Americans were bombarded with unnerving images of ISIS at home and abroad. In Brooklyn, three men were arrested for allegedly plotting to help the radical Islamist terrorists....
View ArticleIslamic State releases 19 Christians, more than 200 still captive: monitor
Reuters: Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said.
View ArticleKidnapped Assyrian Christians: Four more hostages released by Islamic State
Christian Today: Four more Assyrian Christian hostages being held by Islamic State have been released, a week after being abducted in the Khabour region of Syria.
View ArticleWho are the Assyrian Christians? Islamic State’s latest captives are part of...
Huffington Post: Islamic State militants have reportedly released 19 Assyrian Christians who were abducted from a village in northeastern Syria last week.
View ArticleThe genocide of Assyrians that started in Iraq continues in Syria
Assyrian International News Agency: On Monday, February 23 ISIS attacked 35 Assyrian villages on the Khabur river in the Hassaka province in northeast Syria (AINA 2015-02-23). At least 9 Assyrians...
View ArticleChristian area in northeast Syria said to be under heavy ISIS assault
Aleteia: The Islamic State group in Syria has attacked Assyrian villages where hundreds of Christians were kidnapped last week.
View ArticleThe real war on Christianity
Foreign Policy: Last August, President Barack Obama signed off on legislation creating a special envoy charged with aiding the ancient Christian communities and other beleaguered religious minorities...
View ArticleISIS tweets destruction of more Christian sites
Christian Today: The Islamic State (IS) shared photos of the destruction of Christian relics on Twitter on Monday, increasing calls for the terrorist group to be stopped.
View ArticleBishop: Make war on ISIS
CBS News: The leader of one of Christianity's oldest communities reluctantly says that waging war against ISIS - killing their fighters - is the only way to stop the radical Islamists from destroying...
View ArticleWhat everyone gets wrong about the persecution of Christians in Iraq
The Week: Media coverage of Christian persecution in the Middle East was once all but non-existent. (A representative headline on this website last year declared, "The world's most ancient Christian...
View ArticleAleppo’s Christians face rising violence
AL Monitor: The people of the war-ravaged city of Aleppo have been through some very bad times during the past 2½ years of civil war, and they have gotten used to living in constant fear and...
View ArticleHow ISIS controls life, from birth to foosball
CNN: It has all the key points you'd expect on a birth certificate -- baby's weight, length and date of birth confirmed with an official insignia. The difference here is the governing authority's...
View ArticleRecruiting campaign: ISIS tentacles spread far, wide
CBN: Its terror has spread from Syria and Iraq to Libya and other parts of Africa. The radical ideology that drives ISIS to kidnap, murder and behead people in Iraq and Syria is gaining influence...
View ArticleModern ‘Monuments Men’ seek to save Christian history from ISIS
Christianity Today: ISIS has become one of the world’s best-funded terrorist groups, earning most of its profits by selling seized oil. But details keep emerging of the estimated No. 2 source of its...
View ArticleSyrian Catholic leader pleads with US Christians not to forget his threatened...
Religion News Service: In the weeks leading up to Easter, Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart of Aleppo was starting to sense, finally, that the war that had ravaged Syria since 2011 was finally beginning...
View Article‘We are going through a terrible moment’: 242 Syrian Christians remain...
WorldWatch Monitor: Danger levels rose sharply in late April for northeast Syria’s isolated Assyrian Christians, caught for nearly three months now between Kurdish militias and Syrian army forces...
View ArticleIslamic State is not the greatest threat to global religious liberty
The Blaze: On May 13 the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hear testimony about how Islamic State is purging religious minorities.
View ArticleISIS finances are strong
The New York Times: The Islamic State has revenue and assets that are more than enough to cover its current expenses despite expectations that airstrikes and falling oil prices would hurt the group’s...
View Article‘Syrians, Palestinians among most threatened minorities,’ human rights group...
The Jerusalem Post: Countries in the Middle East have shot up an annual list of places where vulnerable minorities are most at risk of genocide, political killing and systematic repression, a human...
View ArticleUS airstrikes credited for liberation of Christian villages in Syria
Aleteia: With the fall of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria, there have been questions about whether the Obama Administration's approach to fighting the Islamic State group is working. Are airstrikes...
View ArticleKurds oust ISIS from Syrian Christian villages
The Daily Star: Kurdish forces have driven ISIS from more than a dozen Assyrian Christian villages that the jihadis had captured in northeastern Syria, a monitor said Wednesday.
View ArticleWhere ISIS has directed and inspired attacks around the world
The New York Times: The arrest on Saturday of a Queens college student on charges of conspiring with the Islamic State is just the most recent example of the group’s global strategy, which began about...
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