French jets strike in Iraq, expanding U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State
BAGHDAD/PARIS (Reuters) - French jets struck a suspected Islamic State target in Iraq for the first time on Friday, expanding a U.S.-led military campaign against militants who have seized a third of the country and also control large parts of neighboring Syria. > >
France conducts first airstrikes against IS; Ayatollah Sistani lukewarm on Western interference; IS drives Syrian Kurds into Turkey
A Rafale fighter at France's Al Dhafra airbase in Abu Dhabi this week. Credit Taieb Mahjoub/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images BAGHDAD — The influential Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday urged vigilance against Western political interference in Iraqi affairs but stopped short o ...
Kurdish leader urges world to protect Syrian town from Islamic State
DIKMETAS Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani called on Friday for international intervention to protect a Kurdish town in neighbouring Syria from Islamic State fighters who have forced many Syrian Kurds to flee across the border into Turkey. Thousands of Kurds crossed the frontier ...
ISIS Seizes 60 North Syria Villages in 48 Hours
Yesterday’s loss of 21 Syrian Kurdish villages has been greatly compounded today, with monitors now saying 60 villages have been withdrawn from by Kurdish forces amid the latest ISIS push toward Ayn al-Arab. Kurdish officials confirmed that ISIS is using US-made artillery and tanks in the new push, ...
US: Global Studies major ‘journeys spiritually’ with Muslims - results are predictable
The leftist academy and the presence of Muslims on campus have created a young Islamophile and Palestinian supporter! Some quotes from an article written by someone calling himself “Spiritual Journeyer”: Islam is one of the three monotheistic religions, but we rarely hear about its spirituality or t ...
Now Rand Paul is plagiarizing Mitt Romney (or at least acting like him)
Rand Paul might not be literally plagiarizing Mitt Romney's words—he generally leaves plagiarizing to his ghostwriters—but he is doing a mighty fine impression of Mitt's willingness to say whatever he thinks is most politically expedient instead of what he actually believes. Just watch the video at ...
The Implications of US Policy on Ukraine
On a visit to Washington, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke before a joint session of Congress, asking the United States to stand with Ukraine against Russian aggression. More specifically, he asked for increased military aid, including weaponry, which the U.S. has not so far provided, and ...
Chelsea Manning Breaks Silence, Speaks Out On ISIS
Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the U.S. intelligence analyst who made headlines in 2013 after leaking thousands of classified documents depicting abuse and torture being carried out by U.S. soldiers to WikiLeaks, recently took to The Guardian to share her thoughts on how the American military could best ...
Another Huge Middle Eastern Country With An Al Qaeda Franchise Is On The Verge Of Exploding
Over 120 people were reportedly killed during fighting in a Middle Eastern capital on Friday, but it wasn't Baghdad or Damascus. With a Shi'ite rebel movement marching on Sa'ana, Yemen now seems like it's primed to be the next country in the region to stare down the prospect of violent collapse. Yem ...
German Muslims condemn Islamic State in nationwide day of prayer
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Muslims condemned the actions of Islamic State in a nationwide day of prayer on Friday and vowed to stem the tide of youngsters heading to join radical militants in Syria and Iraq. In Berlin, where Friday prayers spilled out onto a busy central street, politicians and non-M ...
