The struggle to liberate Mosul from ISIS militants has entered a third month of often savage combat.

The woman's killing in a public square was the cruelest moment in the descent of this once proud city.

“I am very aware that my ethnicity is dying.”

The Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan said he was horrified to see widespread devastation and what he called “ghost towns” during a recent visit to northern Iraq. He said by email that there was little left in some of the communities that he toured on Nov. 27-29 and that

Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked around the blurred edges of international law to save the lives of more than 200 people.

They "pray, pray" that family members can get out of northern Iraq before a major Islamic State attack.