Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Christians, Yazidis Need More Than An Escape From Iraq: Catholic Relief Services Official


Christians, Yazidis Need More Than An Escape From Iraq: Catholic Relief Services Official


(RNS) Kris Ozar, 37, is in charge of programming for Catholic Relief Services in Egypt and is now in northern Iraq coordinating the charity’s emergency efforts with other groups, such as Caritas Iraq. He has been working with Christians and Yazidis ...


The Grass Roots Feed Partisan Divides on Iraq, Syria and Islamic State


The way the parties divide within Washington isn’t particularly new or surprising. Republican lawmakers, who tend to be more interventionist on foreign policy than their Democratic counterparts, are far more vocal in calling on President Barack Obama to ...


Obama's Iraq-Syria Dilemma: No Force Now on the Ground Can Beat ISIS


If Washington is counting on the Kurds to defeat the terrorist caliphate with a little support from American drones and warplanes, it had better think again. Back when the Obama administration was contemplating retaliation against the Syrian government for ...


PHILIPPINES - IRAQ - Filipino Church calls for an end to violence and silent guilt, urges Manila to help fellow Christians in Iraq


Catholic leaders criticise government for its weak and uncommitted attitude. "The time to use religion in the name of religious hegemony is long past;" now it is time for "dialogue in the name of peace," said Card Quevedo, who also slammed "the Iraq situation as created by this fundamentalist radica ...


De-Escalation Algo Pushes Futures To Overnight Highs


It is unclear exactly why stock futures, bonds - with European peripheral yields hitting new record lows for the second day in a row - gold, oil and pretty much everything else is up this morning but it is safe to say the central banks are behind it, as is the "de-escalation" algo as a meeting betwe ...


Medio Oriente (e non solo): Le notizie che oggi non leggerete sui vostri giornali (qualcuna sì, ma non a lungo)


di Barbara Schiavulli SIRIA: no, bombardamenti aerei senza il nostro coordinamento, dice il governo, ormai il sodalizio tra Usa e Assad è quasi fatto / USA-UK lanciano operazioni speciali per prendere i leader dell'Isis / IRAQ: tornano in forze i kamikaze a Baghdad, almeno 5 si fanno saltare, ieri n ...


imperia ... sensazioni diverse.../Giro di vite per i buttafuori “irregolari” della movida di Imperia, carabinieri in azione nel fine settimana/ mai dimenticare baldoni


e la lotta per un nome diverso senzazioni diverse di una città... che oggi a la nebbia sul berta... e uno sponsor da trovare per villa grock... tanti buchi nelle strade... e un solo fine... arrivare... la dove i tetti della mario novaro non arrivano.... cmq notizie imperia va Giro di vite per i butt ...


Polri kerja sama antarlembaga cegah ISIS


Kepolisian Negara Republik Indonesia melakukan kerja sama antarlembaga untuk mencegah penyebaran aliran "Islamic State of Iraq and Syiria" (ISIS) di Indonesia. "Kami bekerja sama dengan pihak kementerian dan lembaga ...


Boris Johnson playing again to the gallery.


The British clown of politics the mayor of London Boris Johnson is playing to the gallery again with his article in The Daily Telegraph on Monday seeking even more draconian powers for the state. He wants those Muslims who return from Iraq or Syria to 'give an account of themselves' while they were ...


IRAQ - SYRIA - UNITED STATES - Damascus ready to collaborate with US and UN to stop Islamic State


The United Nations reports that after seizing Mosul militants killed hundreds of Shia inmates from Badoush prison. In addition, they carried out targeted killings, forced conversions, kidnappings, human trafficking, enslavement and sexual violence.


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First published Monday 25 August 2014 in Letters A FEW years ago I wrote a paper on the nascent threat of Islamic radicalisation for my masters degree. It seems that the Government has been caught napping and it must now wake up to this serious threat to our status quo. To date our foreign policy ha ...


JOKE of the Centuary : Nobel Peace Prize can be handed to the Israeli DefenceForce


Now the Israeli Defence Forces are famous in song and legend. Humanitarian, courageous, self-sacrificing, restrained, willing to give their own lives for the innocents among their enemies, etc, etc. Leon Uris’s Exodus – a racist, fictional account of the birth of Israel in which Arabs are rarely men ...


O Terrorismo Merece Resposta


O jornalista americano James Foley foi sequestrado em novembro de 2012 por jihadistas de um movimento islâmico, o ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria). Em novembro de 2013 a família do jornalista recebeu uma mensagem dos sequestradores, que exigiam 100 milhões de euros para libertar Foley. Infeliz ...