Iraq News
5/24/2019
dailysabah : Turkish soldier killed by PKK terrorists in northern Iraq
5/24/2019
BasNews : US to Send 1,500 Additional Troops to Middle East
5/24/2019
AP : U.S. Blames Iran For Recent Tanker Bombings Near the U.A.E. and Iraq Rocket Attack
5/24/2019
Time : They Were Children When They Were Kidnapped By ISIS and Forced to Fight. What Happens Now That They're Home?
Raised in northern Iraq’s small Yezidi religious minority, S. was 9 years old when the so-called Islamic State killed his father and brother, kidnapped him and turned him into a child soldier. He witnessed unspeakable violence, saw friends tortured and was beaten by the “teachers” who indoctrinated him into the group’s severe version of Islam.
Three years later, when his mother ransomed him back from ISIS for $10,000, he was returned against his will to a family he barely remembered. He tried repeatedly to run back to his former captors. He threatened his sisters with a knife, calling them infidels; hit his mother, saying he wasn’t really hers; and more than once tried to set fire to his uncle’s house. Brainwashed by ISIS with a combination of savage cruelty and lionizing praise, S. was wracked by interior conflict, a lonely pariah in a family alien to him, lashing out violently at the slightest provocation.
5/23/2019
BasNews : Bomb Explosion Kills, Injures Four in Anbar
Afghanistan News
5/25/2019
KP : Afghan forces successfully repulse rocket attack on Kandahar airfield
5/25/2019
KP : Scores of Taliban militants killed in separate incidents in Helmand province
5/25/2019
Rferl : Afghan Teen Loses Her Eye Waiting To Prove Horrific Injury Was From War
5/25/2019
AP : Security forces mistakenly kill 6 civilians in Afghanistan
5/25/2019
WaPo : In Kabul, a moderate cleric was hailed for denouncing extremists. Now he’s mourned after mosque bombing.
Iraq
Period
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total
2003
0
0
92
80
42
36
49
43
33
47
110
48
580
2004
52
23
52
140
84
50
58
75
87
68
141
76
906
2005
127
60
39
52
88
83
58
85
52
99
86
68
897
2006
64
58
34
82
79
63
46
66
77
111
78
115
873
2007
86
85
82
117
131
108
89
88
70
40
40
25
961
2008
40
30
40
52
21
31
13
23
25
14
17
16
322
2009
16
18
9
19
25
15
8
7
10
8
11
3
149
2010
6
6
7
8
6
8
4
3
7
3
2
2
62
2011
7
3
3
11
2
15
6
0
4
4
2
1
58
2012
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2014
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
1
4
2015
0
0
1
1
2
2
0
0
2
1
1
0
10
2016
2
0
2
3
3
0
1
1
3
0
5
0
20
2017
4
1
3
3
1
0
0
5
1
1
2
3
24
2018
2
1
8
2
0
0
2
1
0
2
0
0
18
2019
3
0
2
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
Afghanistan
Period
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total
2001
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
5
4
12
2002
10
13
15
10
1
3
0
3
1
5
1
8
70
2003
4
7
12
2
3
7
2
4
2
6
8
1
58
2004
11
2
3
3
9
5
2
4
4
8
7
2
60
2005
2
3
6
19
4
29
2
33
12
10
7
4
131
2006
1
17
13
5
17
22
19
29
38
17
9
4
191
2007
2
18
10
20
25
24
29
34
24
15
22
9
232
2008
14
7
20
14
23
46
30
46
37
19
12
27
295
2009
25
25
28
14
27
38
76
77
70
74
32
35
521
2010
43
53
39
34
51
103
88
79
57
64
58
41
710
2011
31
38
38
51
56
66
53
82
53
42
27
26
563
2012
35
24
39
40
45
39
46
52
27
24
17
14
402
2013
8
1
17
16
26
27
14
13
13
10
4
13
162
2014
7
10
3
10
4
12
9
5
6
2
3
4
75
2015
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
3
3
10
0
6
26
2016
2
0
0
0
2
1
0
2
0
3
4
1
15
2017
0
0
1
3
0
3
1
3
2
1
2
1
17
2018
1
0
0
1
0
0
2
4
2
2
5
2
19
2019
2
0
2
4
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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