reiko uraWork begins on Saudi Arabia's 75-mile-long megacity, The Linedailymail.co.uk - Olivia Devereux-evansNewly-released drone footage shows excavators starting work on digging the foundations for the £440 billion megacity The Line in Saudi Arabia. The …
reiko uraFears for Kim Jong Un's safety rock North Korea, with police ordered to boost securitydailymail.co.uk - Chris JewersNorth Korean police have been ordered to boost security nationwide to ensure dictator Kim Jong Un is protected and to 'eliminate' threats to his …
reiko uraISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Rukmini CallimachiQADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and …
reiko uraIsis’s destruction of Palmyra: ‘The heart has been ripped out of the city'verified_publisherThe Guardian - Stuart JeffriesIsis is destroying the ‘Venice of the sands’ piece by piece – and worse atrocities may be yet to come. Will it erase the memory of Syria’s extraordinary history?
reiko uraYazidis Face Genocide by ISIS After U.S. Turns AwayThe Daily Beast - Josh RoginMonths after the president stepped in to save the Yazidis from genocide, the airstrikes have slowed to a trickle. Supplies have dried up. And ISIS is …
reiko uraISIS targets Sunni tribe in Iraqverified_publisherCNNBaghdad, Iraq CNN — They were taken from their homes, some pulled from their beds, in the middle of the night. They were fathers, brothers and sons, members of the U.S.-allied Albu Nimr tribe – the Sunni clan considered among the last holdouts against ISIS in Iraq’s western desert. About 50 members of …