Russian patriarch heads 100,000-strong procession honoring Romanovs’ martyrdom

About 100,000 pilgrims led by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, have walked 21 kilometers in a solemn procession commemorating the 100th anniversary of the killing of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and his family. The procession covered the distance between the Yekaterinburg Church of All Saints, built on the place of the […]

ISIS fighters, once bent on martyrdom, surrender en masse from last Iraqi stronghold

Felipe Dana/Associated Press When US-backed Iraqi security forces and Iranian Shia militias cleared’ ISIS’s final Iraqi stronghold in Hawijah, they met with weak resistance and a massive surrender from a once-fearsome army. In 2016 and 2015, ISIS carried out suicide attacks around the globe at a historic rate. The terror group, founded in June 2014, […]