Author: Loveday Morris
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More than 1,300 Palestinians shot Monday, according to health ministry in Gaza
MAGHAZI, Gaza — Fourteen-year-old Wisal Sheikh Khalil had wire cutters out and was trying to break through Gaza’s boundary fence into Israel when she was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Monday, according to her younger brother, who was with her at the time. She was one of at least 60 Palestinians killed by Israeli troops during…
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Toll for Gaza protests rises to 61 with more protests expected
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Ahead of another day of protests, the death toll for those killed by Israeli forces at the Gaza boundary fence climbed to 61 on Tuesday, according to local health officials. Monday’s protests saw a level of bloodshed not seen in Gaza since a 2014 war with Israel and more could…
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Murder charge dismissed against third man in El Paso County drug killing
Prosecutors on Friday agreed to drop first-degree murder charges against a Colorado Springs man who spent nearly a year in jail on suspicion of participating in the execution-style shooting of a methamphetamine dealer. Instead of a potential life sentence in prison, Israel Jimenez-Roldan, 49, was sentenced to 18 months – the result of a plea…
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‘I thought, this is it’: One man’s escape from an Islamic State massacre
SAFIYA, Iraq – Blindfolded and bound, his knees pressing into the dirt, Imad resigned himself to what seemed inevitable: He was going to die. Islamic State gunmen had driven him and about 90 other former Iraqi police and army officers to a remote industrial area on the edge of Hamam al-Alil, 10 miles south of…
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Islamic State militants are kidnapping thousands of people to use as human shields
TULUL AL-NASIR, Iraq — Islamic State militants have rounded up villagers at gunpoint to use as human shields as they retreat toward their stronghold of Mosul, according to Iraqi military officers and people who escaped. At least seven villages south of Mosul were almost completely emptied by the militants as they advanced last week, the…
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Islamic State executes female human rights lawyer by firing squad after Facebook post
BAGHDAD — A female human rights lawyer in the northern city of Mosul was executed by firing squad at the orders of Islamic State extremists, activists said Thursday, sparking international outrage. But she was not the first to suffer such a fate in a city where the militants’ rule is increasingly oppressive — especially for women.…