Kerry wanted U.S. boots on the ground in Syria, has anything changed?
This was published 2013. Has anything really changed? SYRIA John Kerry Wants Option To Place “Boots On The Ground” For Phony Limited Strike Just for the record from these lying weasels. Of course Kerry doesn’t want to limit boots on the ground because our boots are already there. Just for the record ...
A Cruz Critic at The New York Times Discovers Christians in the Middle East
Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has discovered the plight of Christians in the Middle East. In a September 14, 2014, column about Ted Cruz’ ...
Sept 16 FUBAR is the US translation
–US interest rate futures had a modest bounce Monday, with most eurodollar contracts up 2 -2.5 bps. The action yesterday was in Nasdaq as the index fell around 1%. Tesla sank 9%, a loss of about $3 billion in market cap. While some of the selling is likely making room for the Alibaba IPO, which is e ...
Iran’s Nuclear Program Continues Full Steam Ahead
The Arak IR-40 heavy water reactor in Iran. Photo: Nanking2012 / WikiCommons. Iran’s nuclear weapons program, now operating largely outside Barack Obama’s attention span, is still making steady progress. While Ukraine’s crisis and the creation of the menacing “Islamic State” in the ruins of Syria an ...
Islamic State downs Syrian fight plane: Monitor
Beirut: Islamic State fighters shot down a Syrian fight craft nearby a group`s building of Raqqa regulating anti-aircraft guns, an organization that marks assault in a Syrian polite fight said. Rami Abdelrahman, who runs a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, pronounced it was a initial time a organ ...
Islamic State believer warns of attacks opposite US – SITE
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A believer of Islamic State militants has warned of attacks on a United States and a allies if they continue to lift out troops movement opposite a organisation that has seized vast tools of Iraq and Syria, a SITE monitoring use said. The summary on a obvious belligerent Islamist ...
US atmosphere strike targets Islamic State in Iraq
Above: a Kurdish peshmerga warrior launches trebuchet shells towards Zummar, tranquil by Islamic State (IS) The US troops pronounced a strike had broken an IS fighting position south-west of Baghdad that had been banishment on Iraqi forces. “The atmosphere strike south west of Baghdad was a initial ...
ISIS Has Put Rand Paul In A Very Difficult Position
AP Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has emerged as a leading potential 2016 presidential candidate after years building a brand as a conservative with a libertarian bent who often breaks from his fellow Republicans to criticize foreign military action. However, the rise of the ...
IRAQ - MIDDLE EAST - Patriarch of Baghdad: "UN mandate", not "innocent victims", needed in Iraqi crisis
Mar Sako says the Paris agreement is "positive”, but warns that any action should be under the auspices of the United Nations. The head of the Chaldean Church emphasizes that "bombs are not a solution" and hopes in collaboration of Arab nations who "know" the region. He calls for support for the new ...
Tamil Nadu Workers, Stranded in Iraq, Reach Home
Chennai: Seven Tamil Nadu workers, stranded in war-torn Iraq for several months, arrived in Chennai today with the help of Central and State governments, airport authorities said today. The seven men, all natives of Madurai District, flew to Sharjah from ...
Two IS militants shot dead in Iraq
Mosul (Iraq), Sep 16 (IANS/EFE): Two gunmen belonging to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group were killed in separate incidents Tuesday in the centre of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, security sources told Efe news agency. The first attack took place ...
Iraq officials: Premier has chosen final ministers
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers say the country's prime minister has made his decision on the remaining posts in his Cabinet, including the critical positions of interior minister and defense minister. Hussein al-Maliki and Hamad Saadoun, two lawmakers ...
How Iraq’s Kurds were left out in the cold in the coalition against ISIL
ERBIL // Iraqi Kurds were once considered the one domestic force that could stop ISIL’s onslaught, but recent battlefield losses to the Sunni militants have called that theory into question. Now, with the Obama administration assembling an international ...
Iraq welcomes US strike on militants target near Baghdad
BAGHDAD: The first strike south of Baghdad in a more than month-long US air campaign hit a militants target in Sadr al-Yusufiyah, 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the capital, a security spokesman said Tuesday. The US "carried out an important strike against ...
First U.S. strike in Iraq
No ruling out a role for Iran — As more than two dozen nations pledged Monday to help Iraq fight the Islamic State militants, the United States said it was open to talking to Iran about a role in resolving the crisis, despite Washington’s earlier ...
U.S. scouts for Sunni allies on the ground in Iraq
BAGHDAD/AMMAN (Reuters) - Unwilling to send U.S. troops back to Iraq, Washington is trying to persuade armed Sunni factions and tribal figures to fight Islamic State militants in an echo of the "Awakening" movement that drove al Qaeda from the country six ...
Aust forces prepare for Iraq battle orders
THE full contingent of Australian fighter jets and 600 military personnel will be in the United Arab Emirates within days, before joining the international force fighting Islamic State in Iraq. THE mission, which Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declined to ...
