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al-Nusra, al-Raqqa, Calls for Jihad, River of Death
al-Nusra Syrians Protest Demanding Exit of al-Nusra Activists take to streets of rebel-held Mayadeen in eastern Syria for third straight day to demand that Al-Nusra Front fighters leave town....
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Lebanese Tension, Egyptian Chaos, Iraqi Memories… and all the news from Syria
Posted by Matthew Barber Recent Highlights Landis on Al-Jazeera “Damascus could very well look like Aleppo in a year’s time.” — J. Landis “I think when you discuss the Syrian crisis now … in terms of...
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Drones, A New Alawite Opposition, Obama in Israel
Posted by Matthew Barber Drones & Intervention We included a report in a previous post that the CIA is eyeing Syria for the use of drones. Now a report by Chuck Hagel and David Boren suggests...
View ArticleDocumentary: Where the war still echoes
Where the war still echoes is a documentary produced by IRIN, a news service run by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs . The documentary series follows a family of Syrian...
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If the U.S. Wanted To, It Could Help Free Thousands of Enslaved Yazidi Women...
by Matthew Barber The plight of thousands of Yazidi women, kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) during its August 3 attack on Iraq’s Sinjar mountains and in the following weeks, has received some...
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Islamic State Officially Admits to Enslaving Yazidi Women
by Matthew Barber I first began tweeting about the Islamic State’s campaign to kidnap and enslave Yazidi women when I was in Iraq this past August. Though analysts were skeptical and online jihadists...
View ArticleVideo: ISIS, Yazidis, and the Enslavement of Thousands of Women
Joshua Landis and Matthew Barber discuss the devastating IS campaign to plunder Mosul’s Christians and enslave thousands of Yazidi women: (Watch on YouTube) The post Video: ISIS, Yazidis, and the...
View Articleal-Nusra, al-Raqqa, Calls for Jihad, River of Death
al-Nusra Syrians Protest Demanding Exit of al-Nusra Activists take to streets of rebel-held Mayadeen in eastern Syria for third straight day to demand that Al-Nusra Front fighters leave town....
View ArticleLebanese Tension, Egyptian Chaos, Iraqi Memories… and all the news from Syria
Posted by Matthew Barber Recent Highlights Landis on Al-Jazeera “Damascus could very well look like Aleppo in a year’s time.” — J. Landis “I think when you discuss the Syrian crisis now … in terms of...
View ArticleHRW: “ISIS Escapees Describe Systematic Rape”
Human Rights Watch today released new findings about IS’ sexual enslavement project that targeted Yazidi women and girls. Their report, entitled “ISIS Escapees Describe Systematic Rape,” contains many...
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“Asma al-Assad: A Rose of the Desert” in Vogue
Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert by Joan Juliet Buck | photographed by James Nachtwey Vogue, February 25, 2011 Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of...
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Report on Mass Graves of Yazidis in Sinjar
Click the above map to download a full-size image by Matthew Barber Yazda is a Yazidi humanitarian and advocacy organization founded after the attempted genocide of the Yazidis by IS on Aug. 3, 2014....
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