The Intercept has an article on the "U.S. Institute of Peace," a government agency founded in 1984 supposedly dedicated to promoting "nonviolent resolution of conflicts": author Lee Fang is shocked – shocked! – that USIP chairman Stephen J. Hadley, a former national...

At least 132 were killed and 25 were killed in the violence: A Yazidi woman who escaped her militant captor told the media that her three children were poisoned after being taken to Syria. In Baghdad, a bomb killed three people and wounded 11 more. Mortars killed...

At least 4,693 were killed and 2,210 were wounded across Iraq during July. These should be considered lowball estimates. At least 96 were killed and 45 were wounded in fresh violence.