ISIL, MH17 to figure prominently at 69th UN GA session
NEW YORK: As the high-profiled Malaysian delegation led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak arrives to address the 69th United Nations (UN) General Assembly session, two issues will invariably, figure prominently in much of the debates. The two are the atrocities committed by the Islamic St ...
Sorry, But: You’re Kinda the Worst if You Missed YOU’RE THE WORST
Let’s just lay it all out there on the line: if you missed the first (but hopefully not the last, cough FX cough!) season of the freshman comedy, You’re The Worst, we’re not sure what to do with you. Who and why are you? Do you hate funny things and also absurdity and too-real-but-just-the-right-amo ...
Muslims and Christians throng Albania streets to greet Pope
TIRANA: Christians and Muslims thronged the Albanian capital yesterday to greet Pope Francis who arrived in the mainly Muslim country for a one-day visit to praise it as a model of religious harmony. The pontiff’s plane landed at Tirana’s Mother Teresa airport at 0700 GMT, where Prime Minister Edi R ...
IS fighters close in on Syria border town as thousands flee
SURUC, Turkey: Islamic State militants closed in on Syria’s third-largest Kurdish town yesterday as tens of thousands fled in terror across the border into Turkey. The UN refugee agency said as many as 70,000 Syrian Kurds had poured into Turkey since guards cut barbed wire to open the border on Frid ...
ISIS has control over resources in Syria and Iraq eyes statehood
The jihadist group has oil revenues, arms and organisation, controls vast stretches of Syria and Iraq and aspires to statehood. ORGANISATION Many of its leaders are former offi cers from Saddam Hussein's longdisbanded army who augmented their military ...
US general: Arab nations need to help in Iraq
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - The U.S.-led military campaign plan to retake Iraqi territory held by the Islamic State group calls for attacking the extremists from several directions simultaneously, and its success depends on getting more Arab help, the top ...
ISIS genocide in Iraq linked to U.S. foreign policy
In calling on Congress and the White House to act, as Auday Arabo has been doing for three months, he can explain in compelling detail how ISIS is carrying out genocide against Christians in northern Iraq and bring the crisis home for U.S. policymakers.
