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Jun 11 2015 5:10pm
New Amnesty podcast 'ISIS in a Nutshell' launched
First in new series of 30-minute podcasts aims to answer key questi...
Jun 11 2015 3:40pm
Are the press working for ISIS?
Listen to the podcast   As this week has shown it is rare when I...
Jun 10 2015 11:44am
Iraq: Violent Yezidi and Shi'a backlash against Islamic State
A year on from Islamic State’s capture of Mosul in Iraq, Yezidi and Sh...
Jun 10 2015 12:00am
Iraq: Yezidis carried out village massacre of Sunnis as anti-Islamic State backlash continues
Year on from Islamic State’s capture of Mosul, Shi’a militia have c...
Feb 9 2015 5:33pm
Yezidi women in Iraq face sexual violence from Islamic State fighters
Thousands of Yezidi women and girls in Iraq have had their lives shatt...
Dec 23 2014 11:51am
Iraq: new briefing on Yezidi women and girls kidnapped and turned into sex slaves by Islamic State
‘Many of those held as sexual slaves are children - girls aged 14, ...
Dec 8 2014 11:52am
New call for release of British pensioner detained in Iraq for past five years
Ramze Shihab Amhed, detained since December 2009, received 15-year s...
Dec 2 2014 12:00am
New briefing on Yezidi women and girls kidnapped and turned into sex slaves by Islamic State
Torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, suffere...
Nov 3 2014 4:26pm
Stoking the fire of Iraq's sectarian conflict
Unlike nearby villages recently captured by the Peshmerga forces of th...
Oct 14 2014 5:33pm
Our mission to northern Iraq
[View the story "ISIS in northern Iraq: eyewitness reports from our...