Tot Is Family’s Sole Survivor as ISIS Terrorists Target Iraqi Town

At least 15,000 civilians, including many women and children, are trapped in Amerli without access to food or water

Josh Siegel, --August 29, 2014

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After escaping a terrorist-besieged Iraqi town with his family, 2-year-old Hassan was wounded when a suicide bomb went off near a mosque.
The blast in the Kurdistan-controlled Kirkuk province, set off by terrorists from the group Islamic State, killed the boy’s entire immediate family. Today, three weeks later, the toddler remains in the hospital, bandages covering much of his face. Dr. Ali al-Bayati, head of an Iraq-based humanitarian group called the Turkmen Saving Foundation, said of Hassan: More...

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