Daesh
World leaders congratulate Iraq on declaration of defeating ISIS
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 11, 2017
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in the more-than-three-year fight against the Islamic State group in a national address aired on Iraqi state television this weekend.
Shock and anger in Mosul after ISIS destroys historic mosque
By Reuters — June 22, 2017
MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) For many in Mosul, the city can never be the same after Islamic State militants blew up the leaning minaret that had graced the city for nearly 850 years.
ISIS blows up historic Mosul mosque where it declared ‘caliphate’
By Reuters — June 21, 2017
MOSUL/IRBIL, Iraq (Reuters) It was from this medieval mosque three years ago that the militants' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a self-styled "caliphate" spanning parts of Syria and Iraq.
ISIS’s intriguing silence about Donald Trump’s approach to Muslims
By Tom Heneghan — March 17, 2017
PARIS (RNS) With his anti-Muslim rhetoric and planned travel bans, you’d think President Trump would be a favorite target for Islamic State’s propaganda. Well, think again.
White house condemns attack on Iranian Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 25, 2016
WASHINGTON - The target of the attack appears to have been a bus carrying Iranians returning from southern Iraq after participating in Arbaeen, a Shiite pilgrimage that is even larger than the Haj.
The true Islamic response to the Brussels attacks (COMMENTARY)
By Salaam Bhatti — March 24, 2016
(RNS) Muslims must unite and reject the ideologies of ultraconservative schools of thought that inspire some to become extremists.
US says Islamic State committed genocide against Christians
By Reuters — March 17, 2016
WASHINGTON -- The State Department says the designation by Secretary John Kerry does not create a legal obligation for the United States.
Knights of Columbus report: ISIS committing Christian ‘genocide’
By Adelle M. Banks — March 10, 2016
(RNS) The report included a list of 1,131 Christians killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2014 and 125 churches attacked there in the same period.
Muslims also killed in Islamic State attack on ‘Crusader France’
By Reuters — November 19, 2015
Judging from published lists of the 129 dead, about 6 percent have been identified by family and friends as Muslim by religion or by ethnic ties to majority-Muslim countries.
ISIS, ISIL, Daesh — explaining the many names for terrorists
By Lauren Markoe — November 17, 2015
(RNS) The terrorist organization murdering people across the Middle East and now Europe is known by several names and acronyms. What do they mean, and why use one over another?
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