We need to talk about #MeToo and ISIS crimes against Yazidis
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Lamiya Aji Bashar, the Yazidi human rights activist, recently spoke at the World Youth Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh. Her story, like so many others, is difficult […]
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Pakistan and how ISIS won
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Wednesday October 11 a court in Pakistan sentenced three Muslim men to death for “blasphemy.” According to the report “In his verdict, Additional District and […]
Everything you want to know about the Hawija operation, just launched
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Hawija, a town near Kirkuk in northern Iraq, was conquered by ISIS in June 2014. It was home to around 150,000 people. It was a mostly […]
THREE KILOMETERS: That’s how close US and Russian forces are operating in Syria
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Before midnight on September 15th a Russian airstrike hit near where US-coalition supported Syrian Democratic Forces were operating east of the Euphrates river. According to a […]
Hurdles and high hopes on the way to Kurdistan’s historic referendum
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN With the Kurdistan referendum in the Kurdish region of Iraq quickly approaching, many of the processes set in motion years ago, even decades or 100 years […]
The privileged westerners who condemn Iraq for liberating Mosul from ISIS
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In June 2014 when ISIS rolled into Mosul many western media called them “insurgents.” Within a month they had expelled Christians from the city, ending 1,600 […]
Western media’s prurient accounts of ISIS genocide of Yazidis dehumanizes them
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Did you see the latest headline about the woman tricked into eating her own child by ISIS. It reads like something out of the play Titus Andronicus. […]
Nadia Murad returns to Kocho: ISIS genocide, trauma and world’s failure
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Nadia Murad returned to the Yazidi village of Kocho on Thursday, June 1. The video (below) shows her exploring the village, it is harrowing, shocking, as […]
Why aren’t “known wolves” stopped? Because there are 100,000+ of them
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Why wasn’t Salman Abedi stopped before the Manchester bombing? Many are asking this question and have pointed out he was a “known wolf.” People who he […]
If we talked about the KKK the way they talk about recent terror in UK
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “There’s only one way to America should should respond to attacks such as the Birmingham Church bombing, that is by carrying on exactly as before.” That […]
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