In Iraq fight, both sides guilty of atrocities: U.N.
Iraq's human rights minister said in a U.N. debate Islamic State militants threaten his country, the world. Islamist fighters have carried out atrocities on "an unimaginable scale" in months of fighting with Iraqi forces who have also killed detainees and ...
Macedonia detains more than 100 illegal immigrants from Syria, Iraq
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonian authorities have detained more than 100 illegal immigrants, mostly from Syria and Iraq, who were found hiding in a train carrying coal from neighboring Greece, the interior ministry said on Monday. The immigrants were ...
Germany Iraq Weapons
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech about planned military aid for Kurdish Peshmerga forces at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Germany will send high-end rifles, tank-busting weapons and armored vehicles to help ...
Both sides guilty of atrocities in Iraq fight: U.N. debate
GENEVA (Reuters) - Both Islamist fighters and, to a lesser extent, Iraqi government forces have killed civilians and committed atrocities in three months of fighting, a senior U.N. official said in an emergency debate on the conflict on Monday. Iraq's ...
[Stop-Loss]
The second movie I watched in the Iraq triple feature was Stop-Loss, a 2008 drama about a soldier who is recalled for duty just before he is out of the Army. He is struggling with PTSD from the deaths of his comrades, and civilians. It's less about the war than the effects of war. The soldiers were ...
[Three Kings]
Tonight I watched an Iraq triple feature in war films. The first was the excellent Three Kings, a movie about the Gulf War. After the end of the war, three soldiers go AWOL to try and steal a fortune in Kuwaiti gold from Saddam's hidden bunkers. All along they claim they are representatives of the U ...
Лиссабонские шедевры миллиардера с человеческим лицом.
«Калуст Гюльбенкян был человеком, который всю свою жизнь стремился к тому, чтобы каждый вид его деятельности являлся произведением искусства». Джон Уоркер Вот я и решилась на посты о Португалии, отодвинув на пока не ясно какое время неоконченное описание старых краснодарских улиц, да что там Краснод ...
