At Clinton Confab, Obama Praises Role Of Citizens
President Barack Obama is greeted by former President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Obama is in New York for three days of talks with foreign leaders. NEW YORK (AP) — Ordinary citizens will often have a more lasting impact on their community than ...
Тибет останется в Китае. А потому что без воды... Stratfor: Геополитика крупнейших рек Азии
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Airstrikes Alone May Not Defeat Sunni Militants
This undated file photo posted Monday, June 30, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the militant extremist group which calls itself the Islamic State, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the extremists during with captured military hardware during a p ...
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A picture is worth a thousand words. That old cliche has been recently proven to be so true. In the case of the pro football players, Rice and Peterson, pictures seem to make the difference. These are not the only people in this country to have committed these crimes. Video of a left hook and photos ...
COULD TURKEY BE SECRETLY ALLIED WITH ISIS?
Turkey is avoiding conflict with ISIS even as the USA is willing to fight them: When the United States asked Turkey to join a coalition to fight the Islamic State, Turkey answered with a resounding no, citing concern over the lives of 49 hostages the hardline group took in June from Turkey’s consula ...
Pakistani citizen challenges UK’s ‘act of state’ stance in Iraq torture case
A Pakistani citizen who says he was tortured over a period of 10 years after being captured by UK special forces in Iraq and handed over to US troops will on Wednesday contest the government’s claim that he cannot pursue his case on the grounds that it ...
Md. lawmakers push for limits on mission in Iraq and Syria
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to increase U.S. military action against the rapid expansion of Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria, some members of Maryland’s congressional delegation want to guarantee that American troops will not ...
IS executes rights activist in Iraq
Baghdad: The Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist group executed rights activist Samira Saleh Ali al-Neaimi in a central square of north Iraq's Mosul city Tuesday, a week after she was detained for her criticism of the jihadi group. Al-Neaimi's arrest came ...
Islamic State crisis: Yazidi anger at Iraq's forgotten people
When tens of thousands of members of Iraq's Yazidi minority fled from Islamic State (IS) early last month, many were stranded on the barren slopes of Mount Sinjar. They became the focus of international attention. But now they say the world has forgotten ...
Fighting in Iraq Until Hell Freezes Over
On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King delivered a speech at Riverside Church in New York City titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” In it, he went after the war of that moment and the money that the U.S. was pouring into it as symptoms of a ...
