He later joined the tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians who relocated to Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraq’s principal problem, he believes, is a lack of leadership. “You no doubt are familiar with Ali ...

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The Christian population of Iraq has fallen by about 90 per cent since 2003, from 1.5 million to just 140,000; people had left for a more secure life, Bishop Baines said, after decades of instability.

Mardi Gras in French means “Fat Tuesday.” Many soldiers in Iraq get Sundays off, if their duties allow, so it made sense to hold the parade early. Uniform regulations were suspended for a few ...

Mark Tooley has written a very strange article on “Christian ethics and the Iraq war” in which he says this: Treating Iraq, or Vietnam, as a simple morality play of arrogant American imperial ...

Sara* is one of the many survivors of the Islamic State's mass enslavement of Yazidis in northern Iraq and, since being rescued in 2017, still lives in a roadside tent as part of an informal IDP camp.