Sons Of Iraq

(Graphic 18+) Iraq: Child Solider Escaped ISIL Tells His Story

Yazidi boys, suffering from several infections from mosquito bites while held by ISIL, wait with their mother inside a bus outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after having been freed by the extremists. Bram Janssen/AP Photo

In a bustling office in the suburbs of the Kurdish city of Dohuk, eleven-year-old Raed quietly begins to recount his ordeal at the hands of ISIL. It does not take long for his eyes to well up. Raed is one of the few children who have escaped from ISIS camps. Thankfully he was [continue reading].

Iraq: Girls Who Escaped ISIS Are Speaking Out And Fighting Back

The teenager, Nihad Barakat Shamo Alawsi, was taken to Syria and then to the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq, she told an event in London on Wednesday. "They raped us, they killed our men, they took our babies away from us," Alawsi, now 17, said at the event organised by the UK-based AMAR Foundation, a charity that provides education and healthcare in the Middle East.

Several hundred Yazidi And Kurdish women and girls who had been kidnapped by ISIS in Northern Iraq and Kurdistan – sold to the Islamic extremist fighters and used as domestic and sex slaves – have joined an all-female battalion to launch a massive assault against [continue reading].

Documentary: VICE – Iraq: 3 Weeks With Islamic Extremists

An Isis fighter takes part in a military parade. (Photo: The Guardian).

The lightning advances the (self-proclaimed) Islamic State made across Syria and Iraq in June (2014) shocked the world. But it’s not just the group’s military victories that have garnered attention — it’s also the pace with which its members have begun to [continue reading].

Documentary: VICE – Iraq: Reporters Follow Rebels Fighting ISIS

This documentary follows journalist Ben Anderson as he embeds with Iraqi fighters battling the Islamic State. He gains access to the three front lines in Iraq, where Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish forces are fighting for their lives. [01] Thirteen years later, Iraq has collapsed [continue reading].

IRAQ: Isis Forces Yazidi Children Into Re-Education Training

Hundreds of Yazidi boys abducted by Isis are being forced to practice beheading techniques on dolls as part of their “re-education”. The radicalization programme is part of Isis’ plan to create the next generation of extremists in the vast swathes of territory it controls [continue reading].