ISIS burns oil wells as fresh fighting rages near Mosul Dam in Iraq
(CNN)-- ISIS militants have torched oil wells near Mosul, Iraq, in an apparent attempt to cover their movements as Kurdish Peshmerga forces push closer to their positions, a Kurdish official said Thursday. The Peshmerga are battling the militants near the ...
Iraq and Syria pose Saudi dilemma - failed states or Iran proxies
RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - With militant Islamists gaining the upper hand in Syria's rebel movement and grabbing big tracts of Western Iraq, Saudi Arabia's ruling family faces an increasingly uncomfortable dilemma. The Al Saud have long seen the conflicts in ...
Czechs closer to selling subsonic fighter jets to Iraq
PRAGUE Aug 28 (Reuters) - The Czech Republic moved a step closer to completing a deal to sell 12 subsonic fighter planes to Iraq after the Defence Ministry and plane maker Aero Vodochody agreed on conditions, defence officials said on Thursday. The Czech ...
Iraq to appeal U.S court decision on Kurdish oil
BAGHDAD Aug 28 (Reuters) - The Iraqi oil ministry said on Thursday it would challenge a U.S. court decision that stopped U.S. Marshals from seizing some one million barrels of disputed Kurdish oil docked near Texas. On Monday, a U.S. district court ruled ...
Decapitating the U.S. Military – Tea Party Nation
Decapitating the U.S. Military – Tea Party Nation. By Alan Caruba Many Americans were shocked by the Islamic State video of the beheading of the photo journalist James Foley. Perhaps they had already forgotten the decapitation of Wall Street Journal journalist, Daniel Pearl in 2002. Most certainly, ...
Israel Nuclear Program Backfires On Iranian Negotiations
Nuclear standoff between the Arab League and the west Bob Rigg 26 August 2014 For decades the west has covertly supported Israel’s nuclear programme while pretending to support a nuclear weapons-free Middle East. Exasperated by this, the Arab League is spearheading a major international move to chal ...
125 Years of National Geographic Photos!
125 Years of National Geographic Photos! With National Geographic now nearing its 125th year, the august institution that has taught so many of us about the world, nature and about all living creatures, has released a slew of fantastic photos from all the years it has been going. These golden nugget ...
