“Yemen, Yemen, make us proud”…by making us all poorer. And helping Putin and his allies.

Jan 20, 2024 by

by Paul Goodman, Conservative Home: In 2003, Britain sent ground troops into Iraq.  A hundred and seventy-nine of our troops were killed, up to a million Iraqis may have died, ISIS rose up from the ashes of the conflict, and Iraq moved...

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How the wise men lifted my gloom at Christmas in bandit-ridden Baghdad

Dec 24, 2023 by

by Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday: Of all the strange, upset and postponed Christmases I have experienced in following my curious trade of journalism, the oddest was 20 years ago, when the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was captured by the...

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For Iraq’s Christians, this year might be their last

Dec 26, 2019 by

By Reine Hanna, UnHerd: Sixteen years after the disastrous invasion, and two years after ISIS were defeated, the community faces its end. The British Government’s Christmas message of solidarity with persecuted Christians is a welcome...

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Despite defeat of IS, Christianity still facing extinction in Iraq

Aug 10, 2019 by

by Cara Bentley, Premier: An Archbishop in Iraq has said he thinks Christianity is on the brink of completely disappearing in his country because of the effects of ISIS. Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil stated:...

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Iraq’s oldest Christian town celebrates Easter without Isis

Apr 22, 2019 by

by Martin Chulov, Guardian: The church ceiling was still scorched and some cherished relics missing, but after five years of war and exile, their tormentors were finally gone. When the men and women of Iraq’s oldest Christian town...

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Christianity in Iraq is finished, says Canon Andrew White, ‘vicar of Baghdad’

Mar 22, 2017 by

by Hollie McKay, Fox News: He is one of the world’s most prominent priests, but Canon Andrew White – known as the “Vicar of Baghdad” – has reached a painstaking conclusion: Christianity is all but over in the land where it all began. “The...

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