Iraq urges global help in fight against jihadists
Iraq called Sunday for global support for its fight against jihadists, as Shiite neighbour Iran said it was helping Baghdad resist the militants but not with soldiers on the ground. Iraq is struggling to regain significant parts of the country after a ...
Iraq, Syria pose Saudi dilemma: failed states or Iran proxies
With militant Islamists gaining the upper hand in Syria's rebel movement and grabbing big tracts of Western Iraq, Saudi Arabia faces a dilemma. Saudi Arabia has long seen the conflicts in Iraq and Syria as a pivotal battle for the future of the Middle East ...
Iraq’s ISIS challenge: Holding on — for now
Two months after the Islamic State, or Daesh in Arabic, announced the revival of the caliphate, the Iraqi landscape is marked by both uncertainties and some surprising certainties. The certainties: Iraq’s fragile democratic institutions have proved ...
Thousands Of Christians Take Up Arms To Finally Crush ISIS And End The Persecutions
Posted in Featured General SHOEBAT EXCLUSIVE By Theodore Shoebat There are literally thousands of Assyrian Christian men who have volunteered to joint a militia protecting the Christians in Iraq, and may God bless them in such a holy cause. David William Lazar, California-based chairman of the Ameri ...
The racism beneath calls for jihadists' citizenship to be revoked
Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, wants British citizens who fight in Iraq and Syria to have their citizenship revoked. David Davis MP (who in a not too different parallel universe would be our Prime Minister) agrees, along with the Mayor of London, and a former Archbishop of ...
Kurdistan and its 8 million barrel delivery.
Iraqi Kurdistan has shipped over 8 million barrels of oil from the Turkish port of Ceyhan since May, sources and energy officials said, as the autonomous region employs new tactics to establish independent oil sales in defiance of Baghdad. The 11th tanker sailed from the port on Thursday, a Turkish ...
