Sentences with phrase «fleeing isis»

The Burmese nationals and American volunteers have provided medical care, food, and water to Iraqis that were fleeing ISIS or recently liberated.

Our compassion spills over to families fleeing ISIS in northern Iraq or to the millions fleeing war in places like South Sudan, Congo, or Yemen, to name only a few.

For our March cover story, senior news editor Jeremy Weber reported from Greece and Iraq, where Christians are helping refugees fleeing ISIS violence in Syria.

The city is a destination for an underground railroad operated by Mark Arabo, founder of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks safe passage for Iraqi Christians fleeing ISIS.

«That's a big challenge for getting people back into their homes, especially in populated areas like Raqqa,» Pahon said, citing numerous ways in which fleeing ISIS fighters have booby - trapped abandoned homes with explosives.

CNN's Ivan Watson describes a dramatic rescue by the Iraqi military as desperate Yazidi civilians flee ISIS fighters.

The American church has a key role in rescuing, restoring, and returning Christians and other religious minorities who have fled ISIS.

When federal forces fled the ISIS onslaught in 2014, Kurdish militias stepped in, gaining control of significant new territory, including the disputed city of Kirkuk.

Not exact matches

BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani Tweeted this video, which cuts between the eyes of the masked terrorist shown in the ISIS propaganda and Abu Rumaysah, a British Citizen who fled to Syria after being released on bail while under investigation for allegedly encouraging terrorism.

«The US are actually covering the [fleeing] ISIS combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote the American interests in the Middle East,» the Ministry added.

When ISIS snipers shot at women and children as they tried to flee Fallujah, after holding the city hostage, those fleeing were Sunni Muslims.

Refugees slept on streets and under bridges, fleeing the wrath of ISIS.

Many of the 120,000 Christians who fled from ISIS are now safely harbored in Kurdish Iraq.

After three years of Islamic State occupation and devastation in the wake of the ISIS war, our local partners are sharing stories of continued hope for the Nineveh Plains and the believers who were forced to flee when militants issued their ultimatum: «Convert, leave or die.»

As ISIS moved through Syria and Iraq last year, thousands of Christians fled in the face of rape, kidnapping, and murder.

Following the fighting between ISIS and the Syrian army, at least 1,400 families fled the town to safer areas or took shelter in the government - controlled city of Homs, reports the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights.

More than 3 million refugees, including 600,000 Christians, have fled Syria's civil war and the rise of ISIS.

When Mosul fell to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) on 6th June, the city's last remaining Christians, who are thought to have numbered around 35,000, were among the half a million people reported to have fled the city.

If you walked the streets of Fallujah after it was liberated, you would have seen clumps of facial hair lying on the ground, where ISIS fighters hastily shaved their beards so they could blend in with the fleeing crowds.

Islamic State (IS), formerly ISIS, has forced thousands of Christians to flee their homes as they issue an ultimatium to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death.

According to officials, U.S. airstrikes have allowed between 20,000 and 30,000 Iraqis — mostly members of the minority Yazidi religious sect — to escape an isolated mountain area where they had fled following recent advances by ISIS.

As ISIS flees, some of the first frontline Christians already know how to follow Jesus in a war zone.

The Rt Revd Nicholas Baines told David Cameron «many» senior clergy were seriously concerned by the situation in Iraq where IS fighters, formerly ISIS, have forced thousands of Christians to flee their homes.

Many Christians fled violence from ISIS in the past three years and are still living in refugee camps.

In 2010, she converted to a radical form of Islam, then later married a Jihadi fighter and fled to join ISIS with her children.

With the disruption of their homelands by wars and the terror of ISIS, they are now fleeing toward us.

He is now in the U.K., forced to flee after ISIS placed a $ 57 million bounty on his life.

In 2014, Samra Kesinovic (16) and Sabina Selimovic (15) fled their homes in Austria and are believed to have joined ISIS in Syria.

One million people who have survived and fled the civil war in Syria and ISIS in Iraq now face the deadly cold of winter without the basic necessities to keep them alive: shelter, heaters, warm clothing, mattresses, blankets, and, of course, food.

Islamic State (IS) fighters, formerly ISIS, have forced tens of thousands of Christians to flee their homes as they take over parts of Iraq.

«Europe didn't cause the Syrian refugee crisis and pulling out of the EU won't stop people fleeing conflict and persecution by ISIS and the Assad regime,» she said in a statement released by pro-EU group Britain Stronger in Europe.

With Trump's remarks about how the USA should use «extreme vetting» with people «who might be ISIS», Trump has sought to question the key principle that people fleeing persecution must be granted sanctuary.

@notstoreboughtdirt Yes i believe this includes executions but it excludes people who indirectly die as a consequence of ISIS such as complications of fleeing

More than 400 battle - hardened ISIS war criminals have also returned to the country, fleeing the eminent collapse of the Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

But I came at an interesting inflection point at the story of the group because after they banded together, ISIS started to kill members of their group and they were forced to flee and so when I started I knew that one of the main through lines of the film would be the exodus of Syria to Turkey and Turkey to Europe as they were being hunted by ISIS and as they were on the run and forced to flee.

«City of Ghosts» follows a group of citizen journalists from Raqqa, Syria, who eventually flee their homes due to death threats from ISIS.

City of Ghosts follows the members of RBSS as they flee the omnipresent threat of ISIS, contend with the reality of their family's being tortured and killed and still continue to do all they can to rally support against the terrorist organization dead set on dismantling everything they care about.