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Originally published in Charisma News lslamic State militants have beheaded another American hostage, Peter Kassig, issuing a video claiming the killing on Sunday and warning the United States they would kill other US citizens “on your streets.” US President Barack Obama confirmed the death of the aid worker […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS or Islamic State terror group, was wounded in a U.S.-led airstrike on a convoy of militants in Iraq, and a security strategist said the attack killed his close aide. While Pentagon […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald Over 1 000 ancient Christian documents have been saved by a Dominican priest who escaped Islamic State militants in Iraq. According to a Kurdish news agency, Father Nageeb Michaeel, previously director of the Digital Centre for Eastern Manuscripts at the Mar Behnam Syriac Catholic […]
Originally published in Christian Today At least 220 members of a tribe that opposed the Islamic State were found this week to have been executed, according to a Reuters report. The news agency said the bodies of the men aged 18 to 55 were found in two mass graves in Anbar […]
Originally published in Christianity Today Walking the streets of Irbil, Johnnie Moore was struck by what he saw. “Christians were everywhere: on the streets, in abandoned buildings, in canvas tents that are not water-proof or winterized,” the former Liberty University chaplain and spokesman wrote of his visit last week to […]
Originally published in Yahoo News Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time the militant group had taken to the air. The […]
Originally published in Assist News Service Working in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region day and night to help meet the needs of people displaced by the threats and violence of the Islamic State (IS) or (ISIS) in Mosul, and other areas, members of an Iraqi ministry team recently came into contact […]
Originally published in CBN News The airstrikes against the Islamic State might be slowing down the Islamic terrorist group, but US military leadership says it’s not enough to stop them. Reuters reports ISIS has seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani. The Pentagon press secretary […]
Originally published in Fox News An Internet video released on Friday (October 3, 2014) purportedly shows an Islamic State fighter beheading captured British aid worker Alan Henning and threatening another American captive in the fourth such killing carried out by the militant group. The video mirrored other beheading videos shot […]
Originally published in Israel National News.com Islamic State (ISIS) fighters are only a mile away from Baghdad, according to a spokesman for the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East. Battles between ISIS and Iraqi forces have also been raging in the strategic city of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, 25 miles west […]