More than 200 mass graves with thousands of bodies discovered in Iraq
World Watch Monitor More than 200 mass graves containing the remains of thousands of people killed by Islamic State have been discovered in northern and western Iraq, according to a UN report that was released on Tuesday. The report by UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the UN Human Rights Office documents the existence […]
Seven Christians smuggled out of IS-held Raqqa
World Watch Monitor Kurdish-led forces in Syria rescued seven Christians from IS-held Raqqa last week, according to reports. “Our forces have saved two Armenian families,” said Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen and Circassian militias. The Syriac Military Council (SMC), a member of the US-backed SDF, said the seven were of Syriac […]