Iraq

A US court has moved to seize a cargo of crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan that Baghdad says was sold without its permission after the central Iraqi government filed suit to restrain export

Two high-profile incidents happened last week, at opposite ends of the Arab world. In northern Iraq, recently conquered by the zealots of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL), who refer to themselves now as the Islamic State (IS), gave Christians in Mosul three choices: convert to Islam, pay a special tax (about $750, on this occasion), or be killed.

A photo, taken from the film “The Pianist” depicts the pain that Jews went through during the World War II. The war was over; it was the end of Hitler. Russians had entered Berlin. It was a picture of Berlin at the moment it was a burnt down and destroyed…

Turkish companies have told the government that they might struggle to fulfill their promises regarding tax redemptions for exports due to a decrease in trade created by the recent crisis in Iraq.

Islamic State insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on  Monday.
   

Islamic State insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on  Monday.
   

The Turkish Historical Society has released historical photographs from World War I to mark the 100th anniversary of the war, which show Ottoman troops fighting in seven different battlefields including Gallipoli, Iraq and Yemen.    

Emirates will stop flying over Iraq due to concerns over jihadist missile attacks following the MH17 air disaster in Ukraine, the airline's president Tim Clark told The Times on Monday.
      

France said Monday it was ready to help facilitate asylum for Christians in Iraq displaced by a jihadist onslaught, saying it was "outraged" by their persecution.
      
Thousands of Christians and other minorities have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and other areas after Islamic State insurgents led a sweep across Iraq's north and west last month.
      

Militants from the Islamic State group blew up a mosque and shrine dating back to the 14th century in Mosul on July 27., local residents said, the latest casualty in a week that has seen a half dozen of the Iraqi city's most revered holy places destroyed.