From The Daily Signal- “[The Islamic State] has a great number of personnel that they’ve recruited, foreign fighters from Western European countries, some of which are in a visa-waiver program,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Steve Bucci. “They have passports that would not flag them for any special attention.” Watch the full interview on the current situation in Iraq with Daily Signal senior contributor Genevieve Wood and Bucci, director of Heritage’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy: The Daily Signal … [Read more...]

Convert Or Face Death: Iraqi Christians Flee Mosul ن
Convert Or Face Death: Iraqi Christians Flee Mosul LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Although Christians have lived in northern Iraq and Syria for nearly two-thousand years, and at least six hundred years before Islam, today they face extinction across the region. "Our people are disappearing," Canon Andrew White, head of the Anglican Church in Iraq "It looks as though the end could be very near," he told the BBC. A week ago, Christians were warned to either leave the city of Mosul and other areas under Islamic State control, or they would have to pay a tax or be put to death. Today, … [Read more...]