SYRIA – Christians face uncertain future as Syria enters possible last year of civil war
World Watch Monitor | March 16, 2019 As the Syrian civil war enters what might be its last year, Christians are trying to rebuild in the face of an uncertain…
SYRIA – ISIS Beheads 50 Yazidi Sex Slaves as Parting Gift
Clarion Project | Feb. 25, 2019 In a final act of depravity, fleeing ISIS beheaded 50 Yazidi sex slaves, dumping their heads into trash bins for coalition soldiers to find.…
SYRIA – Mass grave discovered outside of Raqqa
Feb. 21, 2019 | Straits Times RAQQA, Syria (AFP) - Sixty centimetres deep, below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqqa, lies a large and deadly legacy…
IRAQ – Sale of Churches Sparks Controversy in Iraq
International Christian Concern | Jan. 8, 2019 The sale of churches and potential corruption regarding the resulting funds has sparked fresh controversy in Iraq. This comes as three churches have…
SYRIA – Christians fear Turkish attack could end Christianity in northeast Syria
Kurdistan |Jan. 5, 2019 A joint statement by Syriac Christian organizations in Syria, Europe, and the US on Thursday demanded the establishment of a no-fly zone to stop a possible…
TURKEY – The Coming ‘Turkish Jihadist Invasion’ Against Christians: A Christmas Plea from Syrians to US Christians
CBN News | December 27, 2018 In an open letter to Christians in the United States, the head of the Syriac Union Party pleaded that his people not be abandoned…
SYRIA – Islamic State kills 700 prisoners in east Syria: Syrian Observatory
Reuters | Dec. 19, 2018 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that Islamic State militants had executed nearly 700 prisoners in nearly two months in eastern Syria.…
MIDDLE EAST – Millions of Christians Face ‘Imminent Extinction’ in Middle East
Assyrian International News Agency | Dec. 3, 2018 Most Reverend Justin Welby said that Christians are facing "the worst situation since the Mongol invasions of the 13th Century", explaining how…
SYRIA – Syrian Armenian Refugees Avoid Turkey
International Christian Concern | Nov. 25, 2018 A new report by journalist Serdar Korucu indicates that Syrian Armenian refugees are intentionally avoiding Turkey. Instead, they chose to travel much more…
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA – 270 Slaughtered by ‘Irrelevant’ ISIS in Recent Days
Clarion Project | Nov. 25, 2018 Proving to the world it is anything but irrelevant, ISIS in recent days reportedly mounted attacks in Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Libya and…
MIDDLE EAST – ‘Next time we will not survive’ – Middle East Christian Refugee
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 12, 2018 As many as 80% of Syria’s Christians have left their country since the start of the civil war in 2011, while 50% of…
IRAQ – 200 Mass Graves Containing the Remains of 12,000 ISIS Victims are Discovered in Iraq
Daily Mail | Nov. 6, 2018 More than 200 mass graves containing 12,000 bodies, including women, children and the disabled, have been found in Iraq since Islamic State's brutal three-year reign. UN…
INTERNATIONAL – “It Is the Quran That Must Be Read” Extremist Persecution of Christians, May 2018
Gatestone Institute | Oct. 21, 2018 "Churches and individual Christians have faced increased restrictions in recent months, raising concerns that these pressures signal a coordinated campaign of intensified action against…
SYRIA – ISIS RETURNS: Sick Terrorists take 700 Hostage – Putin Issues Warning
Express | Oct. 19, 2018 ISIS has taken 700 people hostage in an area in Syria controlled by US-backed forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed. The Russian leader said…
SYRIA and IRAQ – ISIS Is Ready for a Resurgence
The Atlantic | Aug. 26, 2018 The new recording released by the group’s leader suggested he’s looking to the past to chart a course for the group’s ultimate triumph. Smoke…
SYRIA – ‘There Are No Girls Left’: Syria’s Christian Villages Hollowed Out by ISIS
New York Times | Aug. 15, 2018 TEL TAL, Syria — The memories of the retired oilman dot the village in Syria where he grew up. The mud chapel he…
IRAQ – The Simele Massacre & the Unsung Hero of the Genocide Convention
National Review | 072718 The blood-drenched line that led from the Roman arena to the gallows of France and the pogrom of Bialystok also wove through 63 villages in a…
IRAQ – ISIS is making a comeback in Iraq just months after Baghdad declared victory
Washington Post | 07-17-18 BAGHDAD — The Islamic State is creeping back into parts of central Iraq just seven months after the government declared victory in the war against the…
Pence Demands USAID Break Through Bureaucratic Gridlock to Help Iraqi Christians, Yazidis
Free Beacon | 060918 Incensed over bureaucratic attempts to thwart a direct White House executive order, Vice President Mike Pence is dispatching U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green…
USAID – Statement from Vice President Mike Pence on aid to Iraq and Syria
White House | Office of the Vice President | 060818 “President Trump and Vice President Pence made restoring the rights and property of Iraq’s Christian and Yazidi communities, who were…