Expert warns on insider attack danger in Iraq
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has acknowledged that military operations in Iraq will be "highly hazardous" as an international security expert warned that insider attacks on Australian advisers would be a danger. With plans for Australian military advisers to ...
US Troops Could Fight ISIS in Iraq, General Tells Senate
The latest deployment of 475 American forces to Iraq includes 150 advisers who will be working closely with Iraqi brigades at the headquarters level to coordinate the Iraqi military's offensive operations against ISIS. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the ...
Theatre South Carolina to Present AJAX IN IRAQ, 10/3-11
Theatre South Carolina at the University of SC will kick off its 2014-2015 season with the provocative war drama Ajax in Iraq, October 3-11 at Longstreet Theatre. Show times for Ajax in Iraq are 8pm Wednesdays through Saturdays, with additional 3pm ...
Obama mulling combat role for US troops in Iraq
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will consider sending US military advisers into combat in Iraq on a “case by case basis,” the American military’s top-ranking officer told senators on Tuesday. General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint ...
US missiles will worsen Iraq crisis
The US started a new bombing campaign in Iraq this week. It no longer claims to be carrying out a humanitarian mission. Barack Obama made a live statement on TV on Wednesday of last week. He announced his latest war plans against the Sunni Islamist group ...
Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey opens door to deploy troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON -- America's top general would be willing to recommend deploying American ground troops against Islamic extremists in Iraq if he feels it's necessary, he told a Senate panel Tuesday. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs ...
Iraq parliament rejects interior, defense nominees
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's nominees Tuesday to lead the defense and interior ministries, leaving the crucial Cabinet posts unfilled as an emerging U.S.-led coalition intensifies its air campaign against Islamic ...
Will UK stand for yet another war in Iraq?
(CNN)-- 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 ...
Iraq parliament rejects PM's security nominees
Baghdad (AFP) - The Iraqi parliament voted down Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi's nominees for defence and interior minister Tuesday, leaving the key positions unfilled as the country battles to regain ground from militants. Parliament approved Abadi's ...
Who's who on the Iraq-Syria battleground: All you need to know
Nicosia: Jihadists, peshmerga, Shiite militia, anti-Assad rebels, regular troops and foreign advisors, a short summary of who is fighting who in Iraq and Syria:Jihadists:Sunni Arabs, they are fighting in Syria against a regime dominated by Alawites, a sect ...
Islamic State (ISIS) shoots down Syrian warplane carrying out airstrikes
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shot down a Syrian regime fighter jet conducting airstrikes on the group’s stronghold of Raqqa on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. “It is the first aircraft shot down since … Continue reading →
Senate ISIS Hearing Raises Specter Of Escalating War, Ground Forces
WASHINGTON -- America's top military officials on Tuesday made the case for President Barack Obama's strategy to target the Islamic State, in a Senate hearing that highlighted how quickly the theoretically limited mission could mushroom into something much more involved. >Under the plan Obama i ...
100 million people saved from hunger over last decade: UN
Rome (AFP) - The number of hungry people in the world has dropped by 100 million over the last 10 years but one in nine are still undernourished, with Asia home to the majority of the underfed, the UN said on Tuesday. The UN's food agencies said the global number was down over 200 million since the ...
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
By Caroline Srisarajivakul, MD Peer Reviewed The invisible silhouettes of the Twin Towers loomed large in the minds of many New Yorkers last week as we marked the 13th anniversary of September 11th, 2001, while President Obama rallied the United States’ allies in the Middle East to unite against the ...
Iraq Envoy Warns Pope of 'Credible' ISIS Death Threats
Pope Francis may have solidified his enemy status when he said last month that ISIS must be stopped . Now Iraq's ambassador to the Vatican is warning that "threats against the pope are credible," and that he could be at risk during his visit to Albania this weekend or Turkey in...
Iraq: Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) Services September 2014
Country: Iraq Source: World Food Programme, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster
Congress: Vote ‘No’ On Arming Syrian Militias
. Here is our analysis that we shared with Congress today on the effort to arm the Syrian Militias. You can take action to ask for a no vote here. Arms transferred to “moderate” rebel groups have wound up with ISIS It has been documented that ISIS has captured U.S.-manufactured weapons in both Syria ...
Isis: la coalizione fantoccio e la difesa dei peshmerga
L’Italia non รจ la sola a fornire armi ai curdi. Il Ministero della Difesa britannico ha accettato di inviare mitragliatrici pesanti e mezzo milione di munizioni alle forze curde che combattono lo Stato Islamico dell’ Isis. L’uccisione del cooperante inglese David Haines ha rafforzato l’idea di contr ...
The growing intimacy between Bard College and the American military
Parents, don’t let your kids grow up to be Bardians. I say that as a Bard graduate who went there when it was a bohemian outpost even if it wasn’t very radical. There’s one thing I know, however. Under President Reamer Kline, an Episcopalian minister who ruffled the feathers of the student body on m ...
Chelsea Manning Breaks Silence to Criticize U.S. Airstrikes on ISIS
Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier currently serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking government documents to WikiLeaks, wrote a column for The Guardian criticizing Obama's approach to ISIS . "Based on my experience as an all-source analyst in Iraq during the organization's relative infancy, ISI ...
