Aug 21, 2016

AINA Weekly News Digest - Aug 21, 2016




AINA News Digest

001 08/21/2016 Turkey Claims Assad Regime 'threatened' By Kurds
002 08/20/2016 Pregnant IS Rape Victims Face Challenges Upon Returning to Iraq
003 08/20/2016 Iraqi Church Hopes to Heal Trauma of Displaced Children
004 08/20/2016 A Month After Turkey's Failed Coup, Taking Stock Of A Sweeping Purge
005 08/20/2016 Has the World Forgotten About the Christian Genocide in the Middle East?
006 08/20/2016 70,000 Civilians Trapped By IS in Iraq
007 08/20/2016 Demystifying the Islamic State
008 08/20/2016 Who Are the Refugees Coming Into the United States?
009 08/20/2016 Al Sadr Calls for Change in Baghdad
010 08/20/2016 Mosul: The Next Humanitarian Disaster Waiting to Happen
011 08/19/2016 3 Blasts in Turkey Kill 14, Hurt 220; Kurds Blamed
012 08/19/2016 What Does De-Baathification Mean for Iraq's Kurds?
013 08/19/2016 Iraqi Forces Push Islamic State Out of Western Iraqi Town
014 08/19/2016 Iraqis Who Fled Isis-rule Face Torture, Detention and Death
015 08/19/2016 During Lull in Kurdish-Syrian Clashes, Scores Flee Hassakeh
016 08/19/2016 Syrian Kurds Evacuate City As Battle With Assad Forces Intensifies
017 08/19/2016 Coptic Church in Egypt Refuses Amendments to Churches Building Law
018 08/19/2016 All-out War Breaks Out in Al-Hasakah As Government, Kurdish Forces Vie for Control
019 08/19/2016 The Chaldean Chamber and Foundation

020 08/18/2016 Kurds Concerned About Baghdad's Increasing Military Prowess
021 08/18/2016 Iraq Resumes Pumping Oil Through Kurdish Pipeline
022 08/18/2016 Crimes Against Egypt's Christians But No Punishment for Perpetrators
023 08/18/2016 Airstrike in Mosul Kills 50 ISIS Fighters
024 08/18/2016 For First Time in Conflict, Assad Launches Airstrikes on US-backed Kurds
025 08/18/2016 7 Executed in Iraq for Not Sending Their Children to ISIS Schools
026 08/18/2016 Iraq's Fight Against ISIS May Only Be Prequel to Greater War
027 08/18/2016 Forces in Iraq Unite Ahead of Battle to Retake Mosul
028 08/17/2016 Turkey Furious Over Islamism Claims in Leaked German Report
029 08/17/2016 West Ignores PYD Rights Breaches: Syrian Kurdish Leader
030 08/17/2016 U.S. Must Correct Its Iraq Strategy in the Battle for Mosul
031 08/17/2016 Germany Tries to Downplay Turkey 'Islamization' Report
032 08/17/2016 Church Celebrates the First Communion of One Hundred Children Despite ISIS
033 08/17/2016 Religious Minorities: 'All Talk, No Action' From Obama on Islamic State Genocide
034 08/17/2016 Germany Resumes Weapons Deliveries to Kurds in North Iraq
035 08/17/2016 Calm in Al-Hasakah After Kurdish, Government Forces Clash
036 08/17/2016 Iraq Opens Airspace for Russian Jets
037 08/17/2016 The West Must Learn to Say No to Turkey
038 08/17/2016 Tensions Escalate Between Kurdish Parties in Syria
039 08/16/2016 Assyrians Revive Ancient Language Despite War
040 08/16/2016 Turkey Supporting Terrorists and Islamist Groups: German Government Report
041 08/16/2016 German Authorities Accuse Mosques of Playing Turkish Politics
042 08/16/2016 Washington's Sunni Myth and the Civil Wars in Syria and Iraq
043 08/16/2016 The Lost Generation of Iraq's Nineveh Province
044 08/16/2016 Why the United States Must Change Its Failed Policy in Syria
045 08/16/2016 Turkish Police Raid Retail Chain's Offices in Post-coup Crackdown
046 08/15/2016 The Life and Health of Assyrian Queens
047 08/15/2016 Iraq Appoints New Oil Minister After Months of Wrangling
048 08/15/2016 Kurdish Forces Capture 12 Isis-held Villages Near Mosul
049 08/15/2016 US Nuclear Weapons At Turkey Base At Risk of Seizure: Report
050 08/15/2016 Kurds Accused of Changing Demography in Syria
051 08/15/2016 Will Iraq's Minorities Return to Their Homelands Post-IS?
052 08/14/2016 Amid War on IS, Iraq's Widows and Orphans Face Neglect
053 08/14/2016 Kurds May Abandon Turkey After Coup Against Erdogan
054 08/14/2016 Turkey Summons Austria Charge D'affaires Over 'Indecent' Report
055 08/14/2016 Iraqi Forces Launch Offensive Against IS-Held Mosul
056 08/14/2016 For Mosul, Learning From 2003
057 08/14/2016 German Intelligence Warns of ISIL 'Hit Squads' Among Refugees
058 08/13/2016 Power and Propaganda At the Neo-Assyrian Royal Table
059 08/13/2016 Christians in Egypt Rally for Equality and Accountability for Attacks
060 08/13/2016 Muslim vs. Christian Refugees -- Let the Conversation Begin
061 08/13/2016 Iraq Urges Finland to Give Refugees More Time
062 08/13/2016 Victories Against IS Leave Iraq's Sunni Heartland Shattered
063 08/13/2016 More Than 2,000 ISIS Hostages Freed From Syrian City of Manbij
064 08/13/2016 How Islamic State is Trying to Lure Kurds to Its Ranks
065 08/13/2016 How Global Elites Forsake Their Countrymen