Al Qaeda chief urges kidnappings of Westerners for prisoner swaps
- 25-Jul-2016
Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has appeared in an audio interview calling on fighters to take Western hostages and exchange them for jailed jihadists, the monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group said on Sunday.
Westerners join Iraqi Christian militia to fight Islamic State
- 15-Feb-2015
BAGHDAD: Saint Michael, the archangel of battle, is tattooed across the back of a U.S. army veteran who recently returned to Iraq and joined a Christian militia fighting Islamic State in what he sees as a biblical war between good and evil.