Schlagwort: Mossul

Von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Der Kampf um Mosul ist in vollem Gange. Trotz aller Warnungen, eine Offensive so kurz vor Winteranfang könne zu einer humanitären Katastrophe mit bis zu einer Million Flüchtlingen führen, gaben US-Administration und irakische Regierung grünes Licht für die Offensive. Und während kurdische Peshmerga-Einheiten die ihnen…

„Das [vom IS befreite] Dorf steht nun auf einem Labyrinth: Die Durchbrüche setzen sich fort in die Nachbarhäuser, und der Tunneleingang führt in ein unterirdisches Gängesystem. Das zieht sich mehrere Hundert Meter quer durchs Dorf mit Ausgängen in etwa einem Dutzend Häusern, unter Betten und Brettern verborgenen Ausgängen ins Freie,…

„Islamic State jihadists in Mosul executed 284 civilians in the city in recent days, 61 of them children, CNN reported Saturday, quoting an unnamed Iraqi security source.  The source said men and boys, who had earlier been used as human shields in fighting against Iraqi forces, were rounded up and…

„The calls come to Khaleel’s phone every day, dozens every week: Women and girls, held captive by the Islamic State, beg us to rescue them. Like us, they are Yazidis. And in the wickedest of ironies, they are survivors of genocide, kept alive by the Islamic State to be raped…

„Behnam Abboush won’t feel any safer if Iraqi forces drive Islamic State out of their stronghold of Mosul. That’s why he and 300 other Assyrian Christians in the paramilitary force under his command are taking matters into their own hands. Abboush says some members of his community, one of Iraq’s…

„The battle plans to oust the Islamic State from the city of Mosul are in place, but an uneasy mix of forces fighting against the militants could delay the fight or ignite separate conflicts. Preparations for the offensive have sped up in recent weeks, after officials in Baghdad and the…

Von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Eigentlich ist es ein schleichender Prozess, der hin- und wieder mit Massenmorden und gezielten Vertreibungen beschleunigt wird: Die Muslimisierung des Nahen Ostens und Nordafrikas. Juden, Christen und andere religiöse Gruppen wie die Eziden verschwinden aus Gebieten, in denen sie einst die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung gestellt…

Angeblich stehe die „Befreiung“ der zweitgrößten Stadt des Irak, Mosul, unmittelbar bevor. Das zumindest erklärte jüngst der türkische Präsident, der ansonsten damit beschäftigt ist, die letzten freien Medien in seinem Land schließen zu lassen. Wie genau diese „Befreiung“ aussehen wird und welche Truppen an ihr teilnehmen werden, kann man nur…

„A military push to recapture Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and the rest of Nineveh Province from the Islamic State is expected soon. Unfortunately, even if the campaign is successful, the liberation of Mosul will not stabilize the country. Nor will conquest resolve the underlying conditions that originally fueled the…

„In a seeming U-turn, the Islamic State (Isis) has reportedly banned women wearing the burka in northern Iraq after claiming that its fighters have been targeted by a veiled female. The hard-line faction has previously beaten and killed women for not wearing a veil covering their face and hair in…

„Extremist jihadis of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday executed 19 Yezidi girls by burning them to death, activists and eyewitnesses reported. The victims, who had been taken by ISIS jihadis as sex slaves, were placed in iron cages in central Mosul and burned to death in front of hundreds…

„The Islamic State, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report. The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be…

„According to Kurdish media reports, the jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq beheaded a 15-year-old boy in Mosul for the crime of listening to Western pop music. Reports cite officials in the northern Iraqi city as saying that the boy, Ayham Hussein, was discovered by…

„When the morality police belonging to the extremist group known as the Islamic State arrested him in Mosul, Sadoun didn’t know what to expect. He thought he might be flogged for his crime of selling cigarettes, fined, imprisoned or, worst of all, put to death. But none of this happened.…

„The Islamic State (ISIS) has executed four women in the city of Mosul in Iraq‘s northwestern Nineveh province, after accusing them of ‚committing adultery‘, local sources reported on Thursday. ‚The four victims were arrested earlier on wednesday [sic] in a raid by ISIS jihadis,‘ said Raafat Zarari, spokesman of the…