The law enables financial and technical assistance for the humanitarian, stabilization, and recovery needs of former and current religious minority residents of Iraq and Syria. The assistance may come through the federal government or other entities, including faith-based groups. . ..…

Meanwhile, as Yazidi women and girls are slowly rescued by non-government entities from their captors across Syria and Iraq (there are still an estimated 3,200 still in the hands Daesh, says Murad), they are getting much needed care and longer-term treatment in Germany, Canada, Australia and..…

Since the fall of ISIS, most families with perceived ISIS affiliations have been told by their communities, tribal leaders, government offices, and even Iraq's army that they are not welcome to return home, and these camps being used to enforce such policies. ... Iraq's new..…

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I left Iraq for Lebanon, then Dubai, then John S. Knight Stanford Fellowship and then Pakistan, where I spent three years as chief and correspondent for Reuters. ..…

.- Kurdish partnership, with special emphasis on delivering on the agenda proposed by the incoming government.. KRG is looking at U.S post-IS, post- Kirkuk Iraq, and many Kurds feel they need to play the field and seek closer ties with Turkey, Iran, and Iraqi militia leaders they Kirkuk. ..…

According to Welch, “America,” and not just its government, is responsible for the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq and the creation of ISIS. ... John Kerry throughout the book is repeatedly “a decorated war hero” much like Gore who becomes “a foreign-policy expert” and..…