For once, there appears to be some positive news coming out of Iraq. The Iraqi Army and the armed forces of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region, the Peshmerga, are coordinating against the Islamic...
The elderly man sits among a crowd and speaks. He is lean and his face is like old leather. He enumerates the things they have lost. “They took cows, sheep, 500 goats, several horses.” His...
On Saturday, May 8, 2021, when the students of Sayyed Al-Shohada School were leaving, they were attacked by terrorists. These were innocent and unarmed students, who saw education and the acquisition...
On October 16, Samuel Paty, a history teacher, was murdered in France. French President Emanuel Macron called it an "Islamist terrorist attack". French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer called...
It seems that President Donald J. Trump is getting a lot of blame lately for things going wrong in our society. Hateful rhetoric followed by a mass shooting? Greater societal polarization followed by...
In a truly unprecedented development, angry Iraqi Kurds on Saturday, January 26, ransacked one of Turkey's military bases on their soil in reaction to the continuous Turkish airstrikes on the...
The Islamic State (IS) dominated headlines internationally after it swiftly conquered one-third of Iraq in the summer of 2014 and declared its self-styled caliphate. The group luridly showcased its...
Albert Camus once wrote: “When a war breaks out, people say: ‘It's too stupid, it can't last long.’ But though a war may be ‘too stupid,’ that doesn't prevent its lasting.” While he was...
Until this week, many people had never heard of “incels”, a term short for “involuntary celibates” that describes a certain kind of man. It’s a man who has never had sex, or who has trouble...
There is something particularly frightening about the people who turn a car or a lorry into a weapon. These are everyday objects that we see and do not generally fear and yet, in moments, they...
