(Al Jazeera) – “Daoud” said he wanted to fight “for revenge” after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) swept into Iraq’s Sinjar district in August 2014, killing thousands of adherents of the Yazidi religious minority and taking thousands more captive. Daoud’s family managed to flee, taking an escape route opened up by the […]
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(Amnesty International) – The desperate plight of a generation of children is in the balance as the bloody battle for the city of Mosul threatens to become a humanitarian catastrophe, Amnesty International said today following a field investigation. On a visit to the region this month, the organization met children of all ages who had suffered […]
(HRW) – Armed groups in Iraq affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party have recruited boys and girls, Human Rights Watch said today. In two cases the armed groups abducted or seriously abused children who tried to leave their forces. The groups should urgently demobilize children, investigate abuses, pledge to end child recruitment, and appropriately penalize commanders […]
(UN News Centre) – Millions of children throughout the Middle East are in danger as bitter cold temperatures and winter weather bear down on the region, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today, as it warned the agency faces a $38 million funding gap as it races to provide assistance. “The winter months are even […]
(Al Jazeera) – Abu Mohammed’s grandchildren live in near constant darkness now. It has not been safe to go outside for a long time and he keeps the curtains of their home, in eastern Mosul’s al-Zahra district, drawn to provide at least a little protection from shards of glass and shrapnel. The 12 children spend […]
(UNICEF) – Almost half of all the children in Mosul and their families have reportedly been cut off from access to clean water after a major water pipeline was destroyed amid the ongoing conflict. The break in the pipeline — one of three major water conduits serving civilians in eastern Mosul — is located in parts […]
(Human Rights Watch) – An airstrike targeting Islamic State, also known as ISIS, fighters hit a clinic south of Mosul on October 18, 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack destroyed half the clinic, killed eight civilians, and wounded at least two more. Two ISIS fighters and the ISIS transport minister were also killed, a […]
(Save the Children) – It’s been about two years since 11-year-old Iraqi refugee Samer* has been held by his mother, or played with his four brothers. He has never met his new baby sister. “I miss them so much,” he says, sad eyes on the concrete floor of his temporary home in sprawling Al Hol camp in […]
(Huffington Post) – When I visited Iraq last year I drove up to Zawa ridge from where you can look down on to Duhok or if you look to the south, on clear day, you can see Mosul. At night Duhok is a bright and bustling mini metropolis illuminated by headlights, street lights and a giant […]
(Independent) – Isis has been targeting civilians who try to escape the heavy fighting in and around the Iraqi city of Mosul, leaving medical facilities struggling to cope with the number of people in need of trauma care. Around 200 people – at least 40 of them civilians – have needed emergency care for gunshot wounds in […]
