Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Centers aid conflict survivors from Iraq, other nations


Centers aid conflict survivors from Iraq, other nations


LOUISVILLE — News of renewed violence and airstrikes in her native Iraq brings the whole terrible nightmare back: the crash of a wall collapsing on her sleeping family. Then the silence. Then her own screams as she groped in the dusty dark for her young ...


Iraq strikes jihadists as fears grow for besieged town


Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqi warplanes have begun targeting jihadists besieging the Shiite Turkmen town of Amerli amid growing fears for the safety of thousands of residents short of food and water and facing a "massacre". With some 12,000 Turkmen trapped in the ...