Friday, August 15, 2014

1,000,000 Iraqis running from ISIS right now

Mass killings reported after new ISIS Raid

The headline and the first sentence are directly from CNN live news right now. from Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. ISIS now has over 10,000 ISIS fighters that are much wealthier than the ones before. The fact that these new fighters are much wealthier and coming from richer countries is troubling for the whole world now.

My point of view is that the people coming are sort of ravagers of civilization in their effects on Shias, Christians, Yazidis and other minorities. So, anyone who stayed behind is likely dead at this point among any of these minorities across northern Iraq within ISIS activities.

Ex-CIA officer Bob Baer says that what is needed in Northern Iraq is Sunni Muslims taking back northern Iraq not a Shia Army out of Baghdad or Iran or a Christian Army out of Europe or the U.S. otherwise you are going to alienate the local people and things will just get worse and worse ongoing.

Because Northern Iraq is a majority Sunni Area, a Christian or Shia Army will not be welcomed by the locals at this time.

ISIS kills men, abducts women in Yazidi village, officials say

By Anna Coren and Chelsea J. Carter, CNN

updated 6:17 PM EDT, Fri August 15, 2014

A Yazidi family from Sinjar cleans a spot for themselves in a derelict building that houses more than a thousand other refugees on Thursday, August 14, in Zakho, Iraq.

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Iraqi refugees fleeing ISIS

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

ISIS fighters had the village of Kojo surrounded before its attack, officials says
Abducted women being taken to ISIS-controlled cities in the north, officials say
Kojo is south of Sinjar, where ISIS forced thousands of Yazidis from their homes

Zahko, Iraq (CNN) -- Extremist fighters swept into a Yazidi village in northern Iraq on Friday, killing at least 80 men and taking more than 100 women captive, officials told CNN.

The report of the brutal attack on the village of Kojo comes a day after U.S. President Barack Obama -- citing the success of targeted American airstrikes -- declared an end to an ISIS siege that had trapped tens of thousands of Yazidis in mountains.

Fighters with the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, attacked Kojo after having had it surrounded for days, a Kurdish regional government official and a religious Yazidi leader said.

The women abducted from the village about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Sinjar were being taken to the ISIS-controlled northern cities of Mosul and Tal Afar, the official said.

CNN cannot independently confirm the killings and abductions, but the claims are similar to reports provided by survivors of ISIS attacks on minority communities.

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Thousands of Iraqi Yazidis flee to Syria

Yazidis take refuge from ISIS militants

The Yazidis are among 400,000 people that the United Nations estimates have been driven from their homes since June, when ISIS swept across the border from Syria into Iraq.

Who are the Yazidis?

Of those displaced, more than 200,000 have poured into Iraq's northern Dohuk province in recent weeks. Refugee camp populations have swelled since ISIS began its assault against Yazidis, Christians, Kurds and Shiites.

After the rescue: A Yazidi family's harrowing flight to escape ISIS

The plight of the Yazidis and the threat posed by ISIS to Iraq's Kurdish regional government prompted the United States to conduct targeted airstrikes and humanitarian airdrops.

While airdrops and airstrikes saved those stranded from starving and provided safe passage off out of the Sinjar Mountains, the Yazidis and others are arriving by the thousands at camps in and outside Iraq.

Dehydration or massacre: Thousands caught in ISIS chokehold

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ISIS attacks Yazidi village, abducts women, officials say