Kevin Clarke tells us about his reporting from Iraq.
Iraq
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Iraq diary: Drinking sweet tea in West Mosul
Sunni Muslims who have returned to the gray dusty ruin of West Mosul, Iraq, to start over, but most Christians are convinced that is impossible to ever return to live here.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Traces of ISIS might be disappearing but the Yazidi continue to suffer
Few Yazidi families have been able to escape from temporary shelters in Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan. Their home villages have not been swept for mines and booby traps left behind when ISIS was dislodged.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A new kindergarten breathes life into a devastated Iraq community
Qaraqosh’s wary residents who fled ISIS have returned to a city in near ruin, but there are signs of renewed life, including a kindergarten sponsored by the Jesuit Refugee Service.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Discovering Mother Mary in northern Iraq after ISIS
Christians in northern Iraq try to rebuild their lives after the defeat of ISIS, but the terror of being driven from their homes is not easily forgotten.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The U.S. needs to remain engaged in Iraq to help religious minorities
U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry argues that as beleaguered religious minorities in Iraq hang on for their very survival, the survival of religious pluralism itself is also at stake.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Rebuilding with US funds, Iraq’s minority religious communities still await security
Last fall, as coalition troops broke through the last major strongholds held by the so-called Islamic State, Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech to the advocacy group In Defense of Christians in Washington, D.C. In what attendees said was an unexpected move, he focused a sizable portion of his remarks on attacking United Nations efforts to assist Iraqi minority religious groups whose ancient, ancestral homes were ravaged by the militants.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
‘Donor fatigue’ among the threats to Iraqi Christian refugees in Jordan
Few of the refugees are interested in returning to Iraq. “Return to what?” asks one Chaldean-Assyrian refugee. He says that “Iraq is a Frankenstein, not a state” because of the persistent ethnic and sectarian divisions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Far from Paradise: a soldier’s story of the Iraq war
The true story of a young recruit who takes on three deployments in Iraq over five years.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
These Iraqi Christians returned home after surviving ISIS. Now they face a new threat.
After surviving ISIS, Christian communities in Nineveh face a new threat as Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi government troops backed by Shiite militias square off across the province.