Al Hol camp in Syria is notoriously violent. Last month, Jihad Watch reported about aid workers being at risk in Al-Hol camp, following the murder of a medic. Now, at that same camp, there’s another outbreak of violence. As a rule, every non-Muslim individual or group faces a threat of attack when they are in […]
Iraq: Resurgent ISIS jihad attacks leave 10 people dead and four injured
The Kurdish Firat News Agency (ANF News) calls the attackers “ISIS mercenaries.” Who is paying them? “ISIS attacks in Salahaddin and Xaneqîn leave 10 dead and 4 injured,” ANF News, December 28, 2021 (thanks to Henry): An Iraqi soldier was killed and many wounded in two separate explosions in the south of Qeretepe district of […]
Iraq: Kurds find mass grave of victims of the Islamic State
“Kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89; cf. 9:5). “Kurds find mass grave of Islamic State victims in Iraq,” AFP, December 16, 2021: Kurdish forces in northern Iraq find a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 11 Iraqi policemen presumed killed by jihadists, a peshmerga security official says. “A mass grave […]
Iran, the Kurds, and Israel
The population of Iran is only 50% Persian; the rest are Azeris, Kurds, Baluchis, and Arabs, and the government has had to suppress separatist movements among all of these groups. There are about ten million Kurds in Iran, more than 10% of the population. Iran must worry that any success by Kurds in Syria, […]
Iran, Humiliated By Natanz, Claims It Hit ‘Mossad’ Site In Iraq
The Iranians are smarting from the latest Mossad attack, which destroyed much of its new centrifuge plant, built 50 meters underground, at Natanz. There have been dire threats from Iran about taking its revenge on Israel. And the Iranians were quick to announce that they had launched an attack on what they describe as […]
New York Times Feature on Turkey’s Occupation of Kurdish Afrin is Journalistic Ethnic Cleansing
The New York Times recently published an article on Turkish-ruled Afrin, a formerly Kurdish area of Syria that the Kurds have fled, and now is populated by Syrian Arabs who had been living as refugees in Turkey, and then were moved into Afrin by the Turkish military. That article has been widely criticized, mainly because it […]
The New York Times, Turkey, and the Missing Kurds of Afrin
The New York Times has much to answer for in its coverage of the Middle East. Its relentlessly anti-Israel coverage, from its reporters on the spot, from its columnists (with the exception of Bret Stephens), from the Op/Ed articles it chooses to publish, and from the editorials it publishes, have earned it pride of place with […]
Under pressure from Erdogan, US swiftly condemns Kurdish PKK
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stated that the Kurdish PKK group “bears responsibility” for the execution of 13 Turkish hostages in Iraq over the weekend. The speed at which condemnation of the PKK occurred without allowing time for analysis and investigation is worrying. It suggests a tendency toward appeasement, which is no surprise […]
Syria: Islamic State raids two women’s homes, murders them with machine guns, for working for ‘apostate’ group
Remember: the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, so its members wouldn’t really care if someone was working for a group that had departed from Islamic norms. Right? Everyone in the West tells us so: every last non-Muslim politician in the U.S. and Europe is sure that ISIS has hijacked Islam, which is […]
Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship
This incident is reminiscent of a strange story in the Qur’an. A mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So […]