Islamic State Militants Raze Iraq #39;s Ancient Hatra City
Islamic State militants have destroyed ancient remains of the 2000-year-old city of Hatra in northern Iraq, the tourism and antiquities ministry said on Saturday. An official told Reuters...
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ISIS Destroys Another Ancient Archaeological Site in Iraq
Iraqi officials in the northern city of Mosul said Saturday that militants with the Islamic State group have begun demolishing the ancient archaeological site of Hatra in northern Iraq in a...
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Iraq War 2015 - Battle For Mosul: Kurdish Peshmerga Heavy Fighting During Push Towards Mos
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The UNs Secretary General to Iraq says Imam Ali is a message of universal humanity
The Special Representative for the UN #39;s Secretary General to Iraq, Mr. Nickoly Mladenov, said that Imam Ali, peace be upon him, represents universal humanity and sends a message of unity,...
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Published February 18, 2015
Jan. 20, 2015: Kurdish peshmerga forces prepare on the front line for battle against Islamic State group positions.(AP)
UNITED NATIONS Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to look at allegations that the Islamic State group is using organ harvesting as a way to finance its operations.
Ambassador Mohamed Alhakim told reporters that in the past few weeks, bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys or other body parts have been found in shallow mass graves.
"We have bodies. Come and examine them," he said. "It is clear they are missing certain parts."
He also said a dozen doctors have been "executed" in Mosul for refusing to participate in organ harvesting.
Alhakim briefed the council on the overall situation in Iraq and accused the Islamic State group of "crimes of genocide" in targeting certain ethnic groups.
The outgoing U.N. envoy to Iraq, Nikolay Mladenov, told the council that 790 people were killed in January alone by terrorism and armed conflict.
Mladenov noted the increasing number of reports and allegations that the Islamic State group is using organ harvesting as a financing method, but he said only that "it's very clear that the tactics ISIL is using expand by the day." He used an acronym for the group.
He said Iraq's most pressing goal is to win back the vast territory that the Islamic State group has seized in the past year. The Sunni militants seized a third of both Iraq and neighboring Syria and imposed strict Sharia law.
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