US hate group loses free trip to Iraq
For a while there, it looked like members of the Westboro Baptist Church were heading to Iraq to protest the beheading of Christians by Islamic State (ISIS). WBC had taken Australian comedian Adam Hills up on an offer he made on air on August 15 to fly ...
Obama's dilemma: How do you tell the base that Cheney was right about Iraq?
How disillusioned is the Dem base? I exchanged a few emails with some old high school friends. They voted for Obama. I would not describe them as "cultists" but they clearly drank the Kool Aid. We started talking about Iraq and it did not take long for the ...
Jihadists pushed back in Iraq, seize key Syria airport
Khanaqin (Iraq) (AFP) - Kurdish peshmerga forces supported by Iraqi air strikes pushed back jihadist fighters in northern Iraq on Monday, even as the militants overran a key military airport in neighbouring Syria. The limited advances come as Iraq ...
Iraq: on the frontline with the Shia fighters taking the war to ISIS
In the first of a two-part series on the forces ranged against ISIS in Iraq, meet the controversial Shia militia keeping the Islamists from moving on Baghdad. The new Iraqi “border” is marked by a two-metre-high wall of earth. The berm, as it is known ...
Iraq's Abadi optimistic on formation of new government
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi said on Monday that talks on forming a new government were constructive and predicted a "clear vision" on a unified administration would emerge within the next two days, state television ...
ISIS Ingin Bebaskan Wanita Ini Dari Penjara AS
Sebelum memenggal kepala seorang wartawan Amerika Serikat, kelompok Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) dilaporkan sempat meminta tebusan. Daulah Islamiyah juga menuntut dibebaskannya seorang wanita Pakistan yang dipenjara AS d i Forth Worth, Negara Bagian Texas. Aafia Siddiqui namanya. Aafia yan ...
مشروع مشاركة – انترنيوز العراق ورشة حقوق الانسان اليوم الاول
اليوم الاول لورشة #المدافعة عن #حقوق_الانسان في مقر منظمة #انترنيوز في #بغداد #مشروع #مشاركة #Usaid #Mercycorps pic.twitter.com/n1Btn6bANx — INTERNEWS IRAQ(BPCS) (@InternewsIraq) August 25, 2014
Comment on CONFIRMED: the Shrine of Jonah/Mosque of Yunus (Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq) has been destroyed by Islamists and anti-government conspiracy theorists exploit my work, but they’re not very good at ...
[…] the front page of my blog, I had sourced evidence that ‘the Islamic State’ had ‘destroyed the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah – indeed, the entire Mosque of the Prophet […]
VISTO DA LEI "Guerre di religione: secolare sistema di razzia"
Cara Mariella Alberini, questo ISIS da dove salta fuori e soprattutto chi sono i mandanti di questa nuova versione qaedista per un califfato di non si sa quale territorio? Riguardo alla nuova ondata di rapimenti con relative richieste di milioni di euro di riscatto non sarebbe il caso di proclamare ...
Comment on The Shrine of Mashhad al-Imam ‘Awn al-Din has been destroyed (Mosul, Iraq, 25th July 2014) by Islamists and anti-government conspiracy theorists exploit my work, but they’re not very good a ...
[…] that post, I highlighted the destruction of the Shrine of Mashhad al-Imam ‘Awn al-Din and pleaded, ‘make no mistake, the Yezidis are at risk of […]
A Momma's Heart Breaks, No Matter Her Culture
It's been a sad cycle of news these last few weeks. We've heard reports of children being slaughtered in Iraq, thousands have died and suffer from Ebola, Robin Williams committed suicide, Michael Brown was killed, an American city is in emotional upheaval reminding us all of our nation's rocky histo ...
Assad Offers Cooperation With US And UK To Fight ISIS As Germany Says No Chance
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government is ready to cooperate with international and regional efforts to fight terror but efforts must be coordinated with it, the Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem said on Monday. Asked if Syria was ready to cooperate with the United States and Britain, he sa ...
Moderate voters?....not really….
Like the alleged “independent voters,” a lot of “political moderates” don’t really exist. A recent report on Vox.com explains why: It’s a pollster’s imperative to more or less neatly categorize folks in a political opinion survey so the news media and the cable TV talking heads can do sound-bite-siz ...
In which I agree with Ross Douthat...
Wassily Kandinsky, Composition IV, 1911. ...when the Apostolic Nuncio to 42nd Street makes fun of the administration's insistence that there's anything "medieval" about the self-denominated "Islamic state": The idea that America’s foes and rivals are not merely morally but chronologically deficient, ...
Humanitarian assistance for Iraq
Source: Iranian Red Crescent Country: Iraq Mr. Mohammad Shahabeddin Mohammadi Araghi, Under Secretary General for International Affairs and International Humanitarian Law of the Iranian Red Crescent stated the IRCS has sent 3 humanitarian relief consignments to Iraq within the last 3 months in line ...
