Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Mideast Iraq


Mideast Iraq


Security forces and civilians inspect the damage outside Imam Ali mosque in New Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. Iraqi officials say a wave of attacks targeting commercial areas in and outside Baghdad has killed and wounding scores of people.


In northern Iraq, Islamic State switching to terror tactics


Kirkuk and Erbil, Iraq — A string of attacks on the northern Iraqi cities of Erbil and Kirkuk over the weekend took Kurdish security forces by surprise, raising concerns that the self-styled Islamic State (IS) has sleeper cells in cities outside of its ...


Iraq’s Departing PM Maliki Drops Struggle for Power


Iraq’s departing prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, appears to have dropped his quixotic struggle to remain in power and is resigned instead to remaining a member of parliament insulated from prosecution. Fears that Mr. Maliki might play the spoiler in the ...


Blowback: Vijay Prashad on How Islamic State Grew Out of U.S Invasion of Iraq, Destruction of Nation


AMY GOODMAN: Militants from the Islamic State stormed an air base in northeast Syria Sunday, capturing it from government forces. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 346 Islamic State fighters and more than 170 members of ...


US needs ‘broader strategy’ beyond airstrikes in Iraq to stop ISIS, expert says


As the debate heats up on whether the U.S. should expand its targeted airstrikes against the terrorist group Islamic State -- also known as ISIS -- into Syria, Fox News National Security Analyst KT McFarland spoke to Daveed Gartenstein-Ross about the ...


Iraq's Abadi hopeful on new government, suicide bomber kills nine


Abadi is tasked with forming a power-sharing administration that can ease tensions and counter Islamic State militants who pose the biggest security threat to Iraq since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. "The talks to form the government ...


Boko Haram Proklamasikan Khilafah, Bagaimana ISIS dan Khilafatul Muslimin ?


Kelompok Jihadis Negeri memproklamasikan Khilafah. Abubakar Shekau, pimpinan kelompok Jihadis Boko Haram tersebut merilis video pada hari Minggu (24/8/2014) yang menyatakan bahwa wilayah dibawah kendali kelompoknya adalah kekhilafahan, mereka juga menunjukkan video pembantaian yang dilakukan oleh ke ...


U.N. rights boss condemns ‘widespread’ Islamic State crimes in Iraq


GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay on Monday condemned "appalling, widespread" crimes being committed by Islamic State forces in Iraq, including mass executions of prisoners and "ethnic and religious cleansing". The post U.N. rights boss condemns ‘widespread’ Islamic St ...


US Furious After Source Of "Mystery" Libya Bombing Raids Revealed


Over the past week a new geopolitical mystery emerged: an "unknown" party was launching airstrikes against Libya, which is already reeling in its latest political crisis where headlines such as this have become the norm: MILITIA MEN SET HOUSE OF LIBYAN PM THENI ABLAZE: ARABIYA LIBYA'S NEIGHBOURS AGR ...


Us-based Bond Funds Post Inflows Of $1.42 Bln In Latest Week -ici – Yahoo Finance


mutual fund trade organization. “A return to inflows this week suggests to me that last week’s net withdrawals were a reaction to two weeks of negative performance and not a hint of more withdrawals in the coming weeks,” said Jeff Tjornehoj, head of Lipper Americas Research. “We’ve had a couple of w ...


The Middle East


I've already made it clear that I do not feel our government is being sufficiently pro-active in trying to produce a plan to safeguard this country from the events in the Middle East. Indeed, from reports in the media it is difficult not to reach the conclusion that our government hasn't got the sli ...


Obama, A Coil Of Rage~~From The Hate Filled Racist Terrorist in our W.H.!


Published on Jul 30, 2014 Obama's supposed book from,"Dreams of My Father," say's all that anyone needs to know about the usurper in the Oval Office. Why Do You Think That The SOB Sealed His Records? To Cover Up His Rage and Racism Toward Whites and Americans! A Coil of Rage~~From The Hate Filled Ra ...