Dealing With Iraq, Syria and ISIS
Re “Stop Dithering, Confront ISIS” (Op-Ed, Aug. 30): The repugnant barbarism of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and the threat it poses to a large part of the world, cannot be overestimated. But Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham’s call for ...
For Yazidis, Exile From Spiritual Homeland in Iraq Dilutes Ancient Culture
LALISH, Iraq—Pir Said stood reverently barefoot, like all those in the inner temple sanctuary, on the warm inner stone courtyard of the holiest shrine in the Yazidi faith, the tomb of Sheikh Adi in the town of Lalish. Lalish, in Iraq's northern Kurdish ...
Jury deciding fates of former Blackwater contractors charged in Iraq shooting
(CNN)-- Ali Abdul Razzaq's life in Iraq was still getting started when a bullet to the head killed the 9-year-old. Ahmad Rubaie was studying to become a doctor when his life ended. They were just two of a group of unarmed Iraqi civilians who died when four ...
Tammy Duckworth, Congresswoman Who Lost Legs In Iraq, Announces Pregnancy
Representative Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), the first female Iraq combat veteran to win a Congressional seat, has publicly announced she is pregnant. "I am so thrilled that I'm going to be a mother here in just four months," Duckworth, 46, said on a Monday ...
Islamic State Hostage Forced to Mop Blood Seeks Return to Iraq
Salim Sheikh says he watched in fear as Sunni militants executed an Iraqi in June who they accused of being a U.S. spy, hacking off his limbs with swords and cheering as he bled to death. Pointing their guns at Sheikh, a Bangladeshi migrant worker captured ...
Iran dramatically shifts Iraq policy to confront Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - As pressure built up for Nouri al Maliki to step down from the prime minister post in Iraq last month, Iran, his most ardent supporter stayed surprisingly silent as top Iranian officials worked to get him out. Similarly, when the United ...
Today's Links
1--- Japan's 'Abenomics' feared in trouble as challenges build, Reuters 2--- Ukraine, Iraq and a Black Sea Strategy, George Freidman , Stratford The United States ought to adopt the policy of the Cold War. That consisted of four parts. First, allies were expected to provide the geographical foundati ...
Muslim Extremists Behead 2nd American Hostage; Senior U.S. Source: "“What we’ve found is that ISIS isn’t responsive” to outreach
Inspiring confidence... So ISIS isn't responsive to Obama arrogantly lecturing these guys about the "true" nature of Islam? Really?! Can someone please tell me exactly when nanny lecturing began to be considered a foreign policy? My bet is it happened some time right around 2008. From The Daily Ma ...
On the Origin of ISIS
The Islamic State terrorist army is the same - yet curiously different - as other "independent" Islamo-Arab terrorist groups. For one thing, it has been backed by Iran, Syria, and terrorist allies in Iraq - several Saddam Hussein officers constitute ISIS' leadership core. It fought alongside Al Qaid ...
"You May Not Be Interested in War, But War is Interested in You"
By Alan Caruba Younger generations can be forgiven if all they know of war is what they have learned in school or seen dramatized on film and television. For most Americans, the Civil War, the two World Wars, and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam are events that occurred “a long time ago.” For my g ...
Pope sends a letter to Iraqi priest
Pope Francis expressed his “dismay and disbelief” over the atrocities committed by the Islamic State in Iraq in recent months. On August 19, he reached out directly to an Iraqi priest to offer a message. Fr. Behnam Benoka works at a refugee camp for Christians in Iraq who were forced out of their ho ...
British Citizen DAVID CAWTHORNE HAYNES Identified as Next ISIS Hostage to be Beheaded
“A Brit Will Be Next” After beheading American journalist Steven Sotlof ISIS threatened to behead a Brit next. His name is David Cawthorne Haynes. The Telegraph reported on the threat but would not identify British citizen David Cawthorne Haynes: Just as Mr Sotloff appeared as the next potential vic ...
Putin and the Ukraine crisis will force moribund Nato to reinvent itself - The Guardian
The Guardian Putin and the Ukraine crisis will force moribund Nato to reinvent itself The Guardian "The question is whether President Putin's action in Ukraine and IS's excesses in Iraq will actually help the west coalesce again for the first time since the end of the cold war around a shared sense ...
