Details of mission against Syria, Iraq militants
Who: U.S., Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates launched strikes, Qatar in supporting role. What: More than 200 munitions were launched against nearly two dozen targets. The strikes came in three waves, beginning around 8:30 p.m. EDT ...
Syria 2014 is not Iraq 2003
Generals, they say, tend to fight the last war. In the case of the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State, so do some prominent news organizations. The “last war” in this case is the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a catastrophic strategic mistake. The threats ...
Iraq exports more oil from southern terminals far from conflict
Iraq's oil exports from its southern terminals on the Gulf, far from the fighting in its north, have increased so far this month as bad weather and logistical delays subsided, approaching a record high reached in May. Three months after an advance by ...
Lies the media repeats about Iraq: Phony patriotism, fake Syrian “moderates” and the very real end of empire
In history there are the Punic Wars and the Opium Wars, each a turning point, and now we must talk of our Iraq Wars. As of this week they count three since George Bush the Elder cynically drew Saddam Hussein into invading Kuwait 23 years ago. Some of us ...
U.S. hits Islamic State group in both Syria and Iraq
U.S. hits Islamic State group in both Syria and Iraq U.S. fighter jets and bombers expanded their aerial campaign against Islamic State targets Wednesday, striking the militants in both Syria and Iraq even as the extremists pressed their offensive in ...
UK recalls lawmakers to vote on air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq
LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers will vote on Friday whether to join U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq after Baghdad requested help, the British government said on Wednesday. "I have requested that Parliament be recalled to ...
It’s Time to Kick ISIS Members Out of America
Every week brings new reports of Muslims in America flocking to join ISIS. Those who aren’t killed in battle will eventually return to New York, to Los Angeles and to Minneapolis–Saint Paul. And they will stop being Iraq’s problem and become our problem. ISIS is more than just another terrorist grou ...
Humpday Humor: French Cops Await ISIS Suspects At Wrong Airport
On a day when a French hostage is beheaded by an ISIS splinter group, the bungling of French police's attempts to arrest returning jihadists is simply incredulous... As Bloomberg reports, The French government struggled to explain its bungling of the arrest of three men suspected of having fought fo ...
Violation of International Law: Where is Obama’s “Authorization to Use Force” in Iraq
By Inder Comar | Global Research | September 22, 2014 There was much enthusiasm in 2008 that President Barack Obama would bring a saner and more lawful approach to issues of foreign policy and war and peace. Six years later — with Americans still being killed in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay still in ...
Algerian Terrorists Loyal to ISIS Behead French Mountain Climber
As French President Francois Hollande prepared to speak at the United Nations General Assembly today, Algerian terrorists who back ISIS released a video showing the beheading of a French mountain climber. Hervé Gourdel was kidnapped on Sunday evening in the mountainous region of Djurdjura, part of t ...
Muslim Scholars Release Open Letter To Islamic State Meticulously Blasting Its Ideology
WASHINGTON (RNS) More than 120 Muslim scholars from around the world joined an open letter to the “fighters and followers” of the Islamic State, denouncing them as un-Islamic by using the most Islamic of terms. >Relying heavily on the Quran, the 18-page letter released Wednesday (Sept. 24) pick ...
The US Has Begun Bombing ISIS Oil Fields
The US and allied partners struck oil refineries held by the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State on Wednesday, the Pentagon said. US Central Command said the 13 airstrikes targeted 12 oil refineries held by the Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL. The oil refineries were ...
EIA Chief: Without Fracking, Oil Would Be $150 a Barrel
The American shale boom has flooded the United States with vast new supplies of oil and gas, and that has been an obvious and undeniable boon to the American economy. But the shale revolution’s effects are being felt the world over, as evidenced by a recent comment from the head of the Energy Inform ...
U.S. conducts five more airstrikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States military on Wednesday confirmed it had launched five more airstrikes targeting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in the latest round of attacks on the militant group. The post U.S. conducts five more airstrikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State appeared firs ...
Reflections on Rosh Hashanah 5775
Rosh Hashanah food. Photo: Deror Avi. As we mark the end of another year with the advent of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, we pause to take stock of the year that has passed, to learn from ourselves, our experiences and our mistakes as we move forward to build a better future. This has been a m ...
Obama urges international cooperation in confronting ISIS, vows to defeat ...
U.S. action against the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria will be the main topic of President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday morning. The president is expected to cast the U.S. as the linchpin in efforts to defeat the militant group, more commonly known ...
