Ynet reported today that a team of four Israelis from IsraAID flew to Iraqi Kurdistan to help other NGO’s assisting Yazidi refugees from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The main focus was the Yazidi refugees, who appeared tired and beaten after a long journey. The four Israelis...

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The Washington Post reports today that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) publicized that it was selling captured Yazidi women and children  as “spoils of war.” Specifically, ISIS claimed that it sold Yazidi women to its fighters as concubines. The women and children were divided among fighters according to Islamic law, the...

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In a report Thursday, the United Nations revealed that over 5,500 Iraqis have been killed since an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) offensive started in June. According to The New York Times: Those deaths represent nearly half of the 9,343 civilians killed in Iraq from January through September, the...

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Iraqi and Kurdish forces, backed by American air strikes (see embedded video below) have driven Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces from the Mosul dam according to news reports today. Reuters reported that an Iraqi television station had announced the news: The television station quoted Lieutenant-General Qasim Atta,...

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Yesterday, Amnon Lord profiled Brig. Gen. (res) Tsuri Sagi (sometimes spelled Tzuri Saguy) at the Israeli website, Mida. In 1966, Sagi helped create the modern Kurdish army. In the 1960’s the Kurds were fighting for autonomy from the central Iraqi government. In 1966, the Iraqi army had blocked off a valley...

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Wisam was born in northern Iraq 17 months ago with life-threatening congenital heart disease. His family is one of 200,000 adherents of the Yazidi faith who have escaped to the mountains near their hometown of Sinjar under persecution by the Islamic State, the al-Qaeda terrorist group offshoot formerly known as...

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Yesterday Bloomberg reported on the gains ISIS, now calling themselves the Islamic State, has made in northern Iraq recently. Islamic State’s rampage through northern Iraq has inspired terror as stories spread of beheadings and crucifixions. At the same time, its fighters are capturing the strategic assets needed to fund the...

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An op-ed published yesterday in the Saudi owned, London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat argued that the Middle East conflict once known as the “Arab-Israel” conflict has shifted so much that it needs to be recast as one between Israel along with moderate Arab regimes, on the one hand, and extremist regimes, terror...

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In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly defended Israel’s war against Hamas and identified anti-Semitism as a motivating factor behind many of the demonstrations against Israel. Clinton’s initial response to the question as to whether or not Israel was justified in...

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Today was the thirty-second day of Operation Protective Edge. Today The Tower covered Hamas’ immediate abrogation of the Egyptian sponsored 72-hour ceasefire immediately upon its expiration. Hamas fired at least 35 rockets towards Israel, three of which were reported intercepted by the Iron Dome system. Two of the rockets crashed into...

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