Jul 31, 2016

AINA Weekly News Digest - July 31, 2016




AINA News Digest

001 07/31/2016 Assyrian Militia in Iraq Battles Against ISIS for Homeland
002 07/30/2016 Christians Pay Price As Turkey Turns to Islam After Attempted Coup
003 07/30/2016 Many Islamic State Leaders Trying to Flee to Syria: Iraqi Minister
004 07/30/2016 Egyptian Christian: We Feel Like Second Class Citizens
005 07/30/2016 Iraqi Parliament Passes Bill Banning Baath Party
006 07/30/2016 Turkey Kills 35 Kurds After They Try to Storm Base
007 07/30/2016 U.S. General Denies Involvement in Turkish Coup Attempt
008 07/29/2016 Is Al Qaeda Gone From Syria Or Just Rebranding?
009 07/29/2016 Iraq's Sunnis Demand Autonomous Region for Nineveh Post-ISIS
010 07/29/2016 Turkey's Crackdown on the Economy
011 07/29/2016 Siege of Aleppo Turning Point in Syria Conflict
012 07/29/2016 Up to 1 Million People Could Flee Battle for Iraq's Mosul
013 07/29/2016 U.S.-Backed Syrian Forces Seize Documents and Data From Islamic State
014 07/29/2016 Second Largest Party in Denmark Calls for a Halt to Muslim Immigration
015 07/29/2016 Iraqi Catholic Leader Blasts Assyrian Commander for Tribute to U.S. Troops
016 07/28/2016 The Great Smyrna Fire
017 07/28/2016 Syriac Patriarch Warns of Despair Among Displaced Iraqi Catholics
018 07/28/2016 Egypt Christians Look to New Law to End Discrimination
019 07/28/2016 More Coptic Christians Suffer Persecution Over Rumours of Church Building
020 07/28/2016 Syria's Powerful Nusra Front Says Ending Link to Al Qaeda
021 07/28/2016 ISIS Suffers Near Collapse in Oil Revenue As it Loses Territory in Iraq
022 07/28/2016 Turkey's Peace Process With Kurds Could Resume
023 07/28/2016 Pope Francis's Folly on Religions At War
024 07/28/2016 Will Iraq's Constitution Be Amended?
025 07/27/2016 The Unreported Terrorism Targeting France's Catholic Communities
026 07/27/2016 Why the Situation in Turkey May Only Get Worse
027 07/27/2016 For Many Christians in Middle East, Intimidation or Worse
028 07/27/2016 Twin Bombing Kills 44 in Northern Syria
029 07/27/2016 Syriac Catholic Patriarch Urges US Bishops to Defend Human Rights, Religious Freedom
030 07/27/2016 Turkey Is Not the Country It Once Was
031 07/27/2016 Is the Iran-Saudi Cold War Heating Up?
032 07/27/2016 1,500 ISIS Members Escape Mosul and Head Towards Raqqa
033 07/27/2016 Iraq's War On Terror
034 07/27/2016 Iraq's Parliament Endorses Crucial Bill Boosting Provincial Powers
035 07/27/2016 The Martyrdom of Father Hamel and ISIS's Total-War Strategy
036 07/27/2016 The Collapse of the Syrian Economy is Worse Than Germany After World War II


037 07/26/2016 Iraq's Ancient City of Babylon Eyes World Heritage List
038 07/26/2016 The Coptic Issue and the Cycle of Suffering
039 07/26/2016 French Say One of Priest's Killers Had Tried to Go to Syria
040 07/26/2016 What Turkey's Political Mess Means for Relations With the U.S.
041 07/26/2016 Syria Regime Advances on Rebels in Aleppo
042 07/26/2016 Turkish Opposition Warns Govt About Witch Hunt
043 07/26/2016 Amid 'Chilling' Evidence of Torture, Post-Coup Purge Continues in Turkey
044 07/26/2016 French Priest Murdered By Muslims in Attack on Church
045 07/26/2016 Refugee Jihad Spreads in Germany
046 07/26/2016 Erdogan's Purges Threaten Future of Turkey's Secular Society
047 07/26/2016 America Must Distance Itself From Its Rogue Turkish Ally
048 07/25/2016 Egypt's Coptic Pope Warns of Increased Attacks on Christians
049 07/25/2016 5,000 to 10,000 Islamic State Fighters in Mosul, Iraq
050 07/25/2016 Turkey Issues Arrest Warrants for 42 Journalists After Failed Coup
051 07/25/2016 Erdogan Excludes Pro-Kurd Party From First Meeting With Opposition After Coup
052 07/25/2016 Syrian Government Says Ready for Further Peace Talks
053 07/25/2016 Kurdish PM Says Independence Issue Will Be Negotiated With Baghdad
054 07/25/2016 Kurdish Militants Kill Policeman in Eastern Turkey
055 07/25/2016 Russian, US Positions on Defining Terrorist Groups in Syria Narrowing
056 07/25/2016 'Mere Islam' and the Munich Massacre
057 07/24/2016 Syria Welcomes Russian-US Agreement on Counterterrorism
058 07/24/2016 Allies Fear the Cost of Turkey's Instability
059 07/24/2016 Accused Turkish Coup-plotters Tortured in Detention: Amnesty International
060 07/24/2016 Turkey Investigating People Who Say Coup Attempt Was Hoax
061 07/24/2016 Owner of Kurdish School Protests Closure By Turkish Authorities
062 07/24/2016 Clashes Erupt In ISIS Stronghold In Northern Syria
063 07/24/2016 ISIS Relocates Its Strongholds in Mosul to Avoid Airstrikes
064 07/24/2016 ISIL Fighters Captured While Fleeing Syria Dressed As Women
065 07/24/2016 How a Stockpile of America's Nuclear Weapons Got Tangled Up in a Middle East Crisis
066 07/24/2016 Turkish Leader Slams West Over Crackdown After Failed Coup
067 07/24/2016 Kurdish Militants Kill Policeman in Eastern Turkey
068 07/23/2016 Recent Spate of Violence Against Egypt's Christians Goes Largely Unpunished
069 07/23/2016 Turkey Seizes Over 2,250 Institutions in Post-Coup Crackdown
070 07/23/2016 25 Kurds on Trial in Iraq Over Alleged Links to ISIS
071 07/23/2016 Iraq to Dig 'Security Trench' Around Fallujah
072 07/23/2016 Turkey Extends Detention Without Charge to 30 Days
073 07/23/2016 Iraq Has Forgotten Its Refugee Citizens in Kurdish Camps