A positive review of Karen Armstrong’s book: frantic osculation by Ferdinand Mount
A negative review in the Telegraph of Karen Armstrong’s new book— Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence—has been balanced by a very positive review in the Spectator, “ Religion does not poison everything—everything poisons religion.” The reviewer is Ferdinand Mount—Baronet Mount to y ...
In U.N. speech, Obama warns Islamic militants to leave battlefield
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his annual speech to the United Nations on Wednesday to warn Islamic State fighters to "leave the battlefield while they can" and asked the world to back a U.S.-led campaign against the militants in Iraq and Syria. In a speech to the U.N. Genera ...
UN Security Council passes binding resolution to stem flow of extremists to Iraq and Syria
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday led the UN Security Council in unanimously approving a binding resolution on stemming the flow of foreign extremists to Iraq and Syria. The resolution requires all countries to adopt laws that ...
US still assessing fate of Khorasan figure as air strikes continue in Syria and Iraq
Returning safely ... A US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet lands on the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf. Photo: AP The United States military on Wednesday confirmed it had launched five more airstrikes targeting Islamic State in Syria ...
