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Islamic State threatens to kill Christians in Syria in video showing executions

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Written by the Middle East Correspondent for Morning Star News. The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) late last month killed three Assyrian Christians, presumably in Syria, according to an execution video released Wednesday (Oct. 7). In the video, the group threatened to kill some 200 other Christians in Syria unless it receives a ransom of…

Iraq crisis: Islamic State accused of ethnic cleansing

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From BBC News Amnesty International says it has new evidence Islamic State militants are carrying out “a wave of ethnic cleansing” against minorities in northern Iraq. The human rights group said IS had turned the region into “blood-soaked killing fields”. The UN earlier announced it was sending a team to Iraq to investigate “acts of…

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