August 4th, 2015

During World War I, the demographics of Christians and Kurds were both each approximately 20% of the whole of the middle east. Albeit the latter increased in numbers due to Kurdification and forced conversion to Islam. In 1915 the Kurds volunteered en masse with the Ottoman in committing a genocide against Armenians and Assyrians. These... Read more »

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July 14th, 2015

On November 4th 1979, nine months after the successful Islamic revolution in Iran. A hostage crisis had ensued, when students had stormed the American Embassy in Iran, in what was to be known as the longest hostage crisis in history.

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February 23rd, 2015

After ISIS made spectacular gains of large swathes of Iraq, dozens of reports of ISIS' savagery on local populations emerged.

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