Britain prepares to join US-led war in Iraq and Syria
As the bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq intensifies, the British parliament is due to meet today to line up behind the US-led drive to reassert control over the entire Middle East. The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister ...
French, U.S. planes strike "Islamic State" across Syria and Iraq, Britain to join coalition
BAGHDAD — French fighter jets struck Islamic State targets in Iraq on Thursday and the United States hit them in Syria, as a U.S.-led coalition to fight the militants gained momentum with an announcement that Britain would join. In the United States, FBI ...
Islamic State killed human rights lawyer in Iraq, UN says
IRBIL, Iraq-A human rights lawyer and activist was killed in the Iraqi city of Mosul by Islamic State militants because of Facebook posts critical of the group's destruction of shrines, churches, mosques and cultural sites, the United Nations Assistance ...
Iraq crisis: 5 things MPs should know before voting to bomb Isil
As parliament is recalled to consider British involvement in Iraq, and possibly Syria, what factors should MPs consider before voting for intervention today? Although I’ve explained the context to this crisis in a longer briefing for the Conservative ...
Iraq crisis: 5 things MPs should know before voting to bomb Isil
As parliament is recalled to consider British involvement in Iraq, and possibly Syria, what factors should MPs consider before voting for intervention today? Although I’ve explained the context to this crisis in a longer briefing for the Conservative Middle East Council, and set out Britain’s option ...
L’Isil ora parla russo e cinese, attaccherà Mosca e Pechino
Meyssan: l'Isis arruola miliziani e ufficiali georgiani e uiguri, significa che l'obiettivo finale del Califfato Islamico saranno la Russia e la Cina. Non più solo arabi (prima libici, poi siriani, poi iracheni) ma da oggi anche caucasici e addirittura cinesi. Avverte Thierry Meyssan: la composizion ...
Syria to Afghanistan: US Military Policy hasn’t Solved the Zone of Crisis & may Enlarge it
By Amin Saikal, author of Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq The Middle East and its wider eastern environs are in the grip of multiple humanitarian and geopolitical crises. The entire region from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Iraq and Syria to Palestine and Libya is shattered by mor ...
gay pride???
If the queers of the country are as "proud" as they claim to be why don't they hold their protests in any of the twisted islamic states? Why didn't james looney reveal the fact that he was a queer to his al qaida captors when he was held hostage in Iraq while protesting the removal of a barbaric tyr ...
Muslim demo in Paris to denounce IS “barbarism”
Muslim groups plan to hold a demonstration outside Paris’s main mosque Friday to denounce the “barbarism” of Islamic State militants, as flags fly at half mast after the beheading of a French national. Wreaths and messages are placed in front of the moutain-guide office in Saint-Martin-Vesubie where ...
US and Europe Fear Retaliation After Attacking ISIS
The United States and its assorted allies in Europe have rejected analysts efforts to liken the new ISIS war to poking a hornets’ nest. Despite that, they’ve poked it, and it seems they are awaiting the sting. Both the United States and EU nations involved in the war are now said to be bracing for t ...
Steve, plumping for wartime PM
Yesterday at Goldman Sachs in New York in a Q&A with the WSJ editor, Harper seemed keen to give the impression that the US had taken the initiative and come to Canada cap in hand requesting further military contribution in the fight against ISIS in Iraq : Transcript excerpt : WSJ : "Would you rule o ...
