IM men wanted to create Syria-Iraq situation in India: NIA
New Delhi: Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives were following the footsteps of global terrorist organisation ISIS to create a situation in India similar to the one prevailing in Iraq and Syria, the NIA has told a court here. In an apparent reference to ...
France, with planes over Iraq, considers joining airstrikes in Syria
PARIS (AP) -- France is considering whether to extend its airstrikes to Syria and is increasing security in public places after militants linked to the Islamic State group beheaded a French hostage, officials said Thursday. President Francois Hollande's ...
ISIS Militants Stone Couple to Death in Iraq, Witness Says
ISIS militants stoned a couple to death in an Iraqi town as a crowd watched powerless to stop the brutal attack, according to a witness. "It is a terrible scene I wish I did not remember," a civil servant who said he was present told NBC News on Thursday.
UK PM David Cameron urges unity against Isis 'evil' as UK prepares to strike Iraq
LONDON: British prime minister David Cameron has told the UN General Assembly that UK was ready to play its part in confronting "an evil against which the whole world must unite". The statement is a clear indication of UK's intention to join US and French ...
German army sends first arms shipment to northern Iraq
Germany has sent the first arms shipment to northern Iraq to help Kurdish Peshmergas and Iraqi soldiers fight Islamic State (IS) militants who have taken over swathes of Iraq and sent thousands fleeing. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Iraq jihadists blow up mosque, booby-trap church in Tikrit
Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - The jihadists controlling the Iraqi city of Tikrit have blown up a Muslim shrine and rigged one of the region's oldest churches with explosives, security sources and witnesses said Thursday. A police lieutenant from the area around ...
Cameron wants parliament to vote "yes" to Iraq airstrikes
Cameron wants parliament to vote "yes" to Iraq airstrikes UK PM David Cameron says British lawmakers will vote within 48 hours on whether to join U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq, following Baghdad's request for help. Rough Cut ...
Iraq Sunnis Skepical About U.S.-Led War on Islamic State
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Brian Katulis discusses U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg) As a U.S. offensive against Islamic State in Syria gets ...
The Rise of the Machines
By Kevan Harris, Princeton University * This memo was prepared for the “ Islamist Social Services” workshop, September 23, 2014. There is a disconnect between popular accounts of Islamist social service organizations and the broader scholarship on welfare politics. A few city-states notwithstanding, ...
ISIS Tortures, Executes Female Activist Over Facebook Post
The United Nations says Islamic State militants have publicly killed a rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after finding her guilty of apostasy in a self-styled Islamic court. The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq says Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was seized from her home on Sept. 17 after allegedly...
Мега переможище экономическое.
Порошенко обещает в 4 раза увеличить ВВП на душу населения Через 14 лет президент запланировал улучшить ситуацию в экономике. Президент Украины Петр Порошенко в рамках реализации стратегии развития Украины до 2020 года предлагает увеличить долю ВВП на душу населения в 4 раза – до 16 тыс. долл. Об эт ...
IF
“If there had been only one Buddhist in the woodpile” the cynical idealist, realist poet of the people pondered now, substitute Waco, Texas for any and all senseless, complicated, absurdity of violence before then, until now and way beyond tomorrow. If Isis, the Egyptian mother goddess, protector of ...
Suspected Bot List [2014-09-24]
detection period: 2014-09-24 00:00-23:59 UTC number of suspected bots' IPs listed here: 175 IP addresses listed here all exhibit strange network behavior. As I could not notify the victims for various reasons (no working abuse contact, mailbox over quota, etc.), I list them here instead. I have to e ...
Despite Rising Voice of Climate Movement, Global Leaders Dither
Andrew Burton/Getty Images The largest ever gathering for climate action took place in New York on September 21, just two days ahead of major negotiations on a climate treaty between global leaders at the United Nations. The “People’s Climate March” attracted an estimated 400,000 people, and the mes ...
UN Security Council Resolution on “Foreign Terrorist Fighters” Targets Democratic Rights
The United Nations Security Council passed a broadly worded resolution on Wednesday targeting the flow of “foreign terrorist fighters” internationally. While presented as a response to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the resolution is aimed at legitimizing…
The Goal In Syria - 300,000 Barrels Of Oil A Day.
Getting rid of Assad opens up Syrian oilfields to Europe and puts a finger up at Putin. It is all about the oil. Again... For those to whom the recent US campaign against Syria seems a deja vu of last summer's "near-war" attempt to ouster its president Bashar al-Assad, which was stopped in the last ...
Syrian Airstrikes, Obama Talks ISIL at UN: What Happened This Week?
Mladen Antonov, AFP/Getty Images Congressional midterm elections are little more than two months away; liberals want Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire; President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations Wednesday on the need for global cooperation; the United States-led airstrikes ...
President Obama on the Structural Nature of Transnational Terror
President Obama’s UN speech yesterday morning, as expected, focused heavily on transnational security issues, specifically the US-led air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. But he also touched on some broader, cross-cutting international policy issues, too. In that regard, one part of the addr ...
