Canada’s parliament adopted Tuesday an opposition motion to resettle Yazidi refugees within four months, while declaring ISIL group’s persecution of Yazidis near the Syrian border in northern Iraq a genocide. Iraqi activist Nadia Murad was on hand for the unanimous vote in the House of Commons. The government said it ...
The United States has begun planning an offensive to liberate Raqqa from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, and Russia will not be a member of the operation, US Defense Secretary Carter said. “Russia is not a participant in our Raqqa plan,” Carter told ...
