The mistreatment of the so-called IS families is also justified by many Mosul community members as a fair punishment, the report claimed
As Islamic State fighters slowly lose their grip over the terrorist network’s last Syrian stronghold, they increasingly are targeting civilians fleeing the violence to use them as human shields
The YPG is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara. It is an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has battled against the Turkish state since 1984
After the defeat of the so-called Islamic State in Mosul in 2017, hundreds of IS families returned to their homes to regain normal lives. But the stigma of being related to IS fighters continues to haunt them. VOA’s Kawa Omer reports from Mosul. VOA NEWS
Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate, is still struggling to recover from a war that devastated all aspects of normal life