A group of Yazidi spiritual leaders, politicians, activists and aid workers have demanded that the Jewish Montreal businessman claiming to have rescued 128 Christian and Yazidi women and children from the Islamic State, or ISIS, provide evidence that he is saving lives. Steve Maman has been nicknamed the “Jewish Schindler” for founding the Liberation of…
Montreal businessman Steve Maman said his Jewish background has stirred his efforts to save Yazidi and Christian children from ISIS. Maman is the founder of the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq project, which he said has saved 128 girls and young women from sex slavery and abuse at the hands of the…
In 2003, I served as the U.S. Coalition official responsible for “administering” the province of Kirkuk in northern Iraq. At the time, I was struck by how the different communities intermarried, spoke each other’s languages, and loved each other’s cultures. In an attempt to defuse tensions emerging from the struggle for power after the overthrow…
Kayla Mueller, the U.S. aid worker killed this year while being held hostage by Islamic State militants, was raped repeatedly by the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while in captivity in Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday. Her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, were told by U.S. government officials that their daughter had been raped…
A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help the Kurds in their fight against Islamic State said on Monday that she had volunteered in an effort to “turn her life around” after being jailed in the United States for an international phone scam. Having spent eight months with Kurdish YGP guerrillas in Syria…
An ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for firing three rockets on southern Israel. Sinai Province claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack from the Sinai Peninsula, saying it fired the long-range Grad missiles at “occupied Palestine.” Israel Police found the remains of the rockets on Friday and Saturday in open areas. There were no injuries. The attack caused…
Prosecutors charged two U.S. men on Friday of plotting to help the Islamic State militant group by beheading Americans, including the anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller, after an investigation that led law enforcement officers to shoot a suspect dead last week in Boston. The case follows a handful of so-called “lone wolf” attacks in the United…
Shirley Sotloff, whose son, Steven, was beheaded last year by Islamic State militants, of her son’s life and legacy at the Newseum in Washington DC on Monday. “‘Everyone has two lives. The second one begins when you realize that you only have one.’ These are the words my late son Steven Joel Sotloff wrote during…
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