On the 6th anniversary of the ISIS genocide of Yazidis: A personal look back
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN My first memories of ISIS crimes were in the summer of 2014 when the group first began to flood social media of images of mass murder. […]
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The Iran ‘land bridge’: A history in maps and reports (with links)
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Airstrikes in Iraq between July 19 and August 20 are attempts to interdict Iran’s “land bridge” that stretches across Iraq and Syria to Lebanon. This was […]
Prelude to genocide: Remembering the days before August 2014 and the Yazidi genocide
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN JERUSALEM, JUNE 2014 – In June 2014 ISIS attacked Camp Speicher in Iraq. The group captured more than 1,000 mostly Shi’ite cadets and systematically murdered them. […]
Is the US deploying in Sinjar (Shingal)? If so, why? A look at the emerging reports
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 7, 2014 US president Barack Obama authorized operations to confront Islamic State after ISIS assaulted Yazidis near Sinjar and began a genocide of the […]
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 […]
Reports: Hashd al-Shaabi and Iraq forces enter Sinjar
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN After the rapid conquest of Kirkuk on October 16th there are reports that the Iraqi Security Forces and particularly the Hashd al-Shaabi or Shia militias, have […]
Trump didn’t visit Warsaw Ghetto, BUT past presidents who did visit DID NOT learn its lessons
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a recent column Frank Bruni writes “Donald Trump has established a pattern of offending — or at the very least ignoring — Jews. The most […]
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. […]
BREAKING: Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi reaching Iraq-Syria border, implications?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Just after noon on May 29th the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a mostly Shia group of militias that have been officially part of […]
Photo essay: Peshmerga and the war on ISIS
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Since August 2014 the Kurdish Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government, fought a tough war against Islamic State along a 1,000 kilometers of […]
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