Iraq urges citizens to join new national guard
The Iraqi government on Monday (September 15th) urged residents of the country's northern and western provinces to join a newly-formed national guard to fend off the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL). "The cabinet has approved a plan to form ...
Obama's Iraq policy gains bipartisan support, polls show
Majorities of Republicans and Democrats say they support President Obama's plan for attacking Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, a rare bit of bipartisan backing for the president, two new polls show.
How to make the UK a better place, a numbered-list from Billydisco
Thread Starter How to make the UK a better place, a numbered-list from Billydisco Follow 20 minutes ago 20m ago 1) Measures need to be taken to ensure Islam does not enter the "establishment", i.e. the judicial, political etc system. It only takes a Labour Government with Islamic sympathisers to try ...
ISIL and the World's Policeman
>President Obama's speech to the nation on ISIL and the follow-up statements by the White House and administration officials reveal the political bind that American policy makers find themselves in when dealing with the chaos in the Middle East, or in the Ukraine and Sudan for that matter. Begi ...
The past and future of Iraq’s minorities
Source: Washington Post Country: Iraq By Elizabeth Ferris and Abbie Taylor September 8 In August, media reports of tens of thousands of Yazidis in Iraq fleeing for their lives prompted outrage – and (uncharacteristically) action to come to their rescue. The United Nations reports that up to 1.8 mill ...
Holder Announces Pilot Program to Dissuade Americans from Joining Terrorist Groups
Attorney General Eric Holder released a video message today to announce a new pilot program intended to ”bring together community representatives, public safety officials, religious leaders, and United States Attorneys to improve local engagement, to counter violent extremism and – ultimately – to b ...
First German trial of ‘Islamic State jihadist’ opens
An alleged German jihadist went on trial Monday accused of fighting in Syria for the Islamic State group, amid calls for tougher action to prevent attacks in Europe by militants. In the first German criminal proceedings involving IS, Kreshnik Berisha, a 20-year-old born near the business capital Fra ...
The Part Of Syria Directly Controlled By The UN Is Now Too Dangerous For Peacekeepers
The UN is quietly pulling back from the parts of the peacekeeper-administered military disengagement zone separating the Israeli and Syrian-controlled sections of the Golan Heights. Reuters quotes an anonymous UN staffer as saying that "Staff in U.N. positions 10, 16, 31 and 37, as well as Camp Faou ...
Arab countries do not take refugees, not even the rich ones!
Most of the asylum seekers and refugees today are Muslims’ yet the wealthy Muslim countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), or Abu Dhabi etc.. find that this abundance of Muslim refugees from Syria, Pakistan or Iraq is not their problem. This Muslim refugee problem is caused by the Muslim polit ...
Report: ISIL has sleeper cells in Ankara, İstanbul, Konya
Radical Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants allegedly have terrorist sleeper cells in three main provinces of Turkey — İstanbul, Ankara and Konya — and they are ready to attack at any time, US counter-terrorism officials warned Turkey during the recent NATO summit in Wales, the Tar ...
Terrorists Get Blown Up In Their Truck; Bodies Go Flying
A group of terrorists in Syria took the ride of their lives as their truck was blown up by local military forces. The problem with taking sides in Syria, or Iraq for that matter, is that there are no good... Read More ›
