AP Interview: Iraq premier says no foreign troops
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's new prime minister says foreign ground troops are neither necessary nor wanted in his country's fight against the Islamic State group. In an interview with The Associated Press, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi also urged the international ...
ISIS Hollywood-style 'Flames of War' video threatens to attack US troops in Iraq
The latest video titled - Flames of War: Fighting Has Just Begun - comes just hours after Obama’s top military adviser said Tuesday that he would recommend deploying US forces in ground operations against Islamic extremists in Iraq if airstrikes proved ...
‘Coming soon': ISIS unveils Hollywood-style trailer as preview of what awaits U.S. troops if they set foot in Iraq
BEIRUT — The militant Islamic State group has released a video warning the United States that fighters await it in Iraq if President Barack Obama sends troops there, as he and his top general said may happen. The 52-second video entitled “Flames of War ...
Top US general says half of Iraq's army unsuitable to partner with US against Islamic State
PARIS (AP) -- About half of Iraq's army is incapable of partnering effectively with the U.S. to roll back the Islamic State group's territorial gains in western and northern Iraq, and the other half needs to be partially rebuilt with U.S. training and ...
ISIS release 'Flames of War' video warning Obama of attacks if US troops are deployed in Iraq
The Islamic State (ISIS) group has released a video appearing to warn the US that fighters are waiting in Iraq if US President Barack Obama chooses to send troops in there. The 52-second film, entitled 'Flames of War' purports to be a trailer and shows ...
UK Declares War On ISIS
The atrocious murder of David Haines puts the United Kingdom and in particular Prime Minister David Cameron front and center in the evolving battle against ISIS. It’s not as though he is short of work, with a referendum in Scotland this week and a problematic relationship with the European Union amo ...
15 arrested for promoting radical Islam
One of Kosovo's leading Muslim clerics was among 15 people arrested by police for recruiting people to join the jihad in Iraq and Syria.
Muslim kills New Jersey teenager, no media outrage
You recognize the names Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. But you probably don’t know the name Brendan Telvin. Here is an opportunity for more racial strife, but where are the media and other race baiters? August 21, 2014 by Meg Wagner Ali Muhammad Brown is accused of killing a 19-year-old in New Je ...
10 things you need to know today: September 17, 2014
Gen. Martin Dempsey testifies to the Senate | (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Week A top general floats deploying troops against ISIS, NASA picks two companies to take astronauts into space, and more 1. Joint Chiefs chairman says ground troops might be needed if ISIS withstands airstrikes Joint ...
Lawfare Warfare
It just feels like the same cameraman getting in the same quick snap of the same boots on the ground. We dealt before with the extraordinary delay while an International Coalition of the Willing was corralled into ‘the business of Iraq’. Or was that ‘seduced’? Never mind. By the time it was boots on ...
