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Climate Cult Marches in New York and elsewhere tomorrow : the ill-informed and the ill-intentioned will call for more destruction Israel's Arab citizens alienated after war with Hamas Iran, China prepare to conduct unprecedented joint naval drills Video Mensaje de la Casa Blanca Panetta: I Wanted to ...
Moving sands
One of the most persistent cliches about the Middle East is that it's a swamp (or rather, a desert of moving sands) where, the more you try to get out, the more stuck you get. This notion may be buzzing inside the head of president Obama too, and giving sleepless nights to his retinue of advisors an ...
BREAKING: ISIS Releases Chilling New Video – IN ENGLISH – With ‘John the Beheader’ (Video)
ISIS terrorists released a chilling new video– Starring hundreds of bloodthirsty terrorists with cameos from George Bush and Barack Obama– Video: Obama claimed the war was over. Obama: Iraq’s future will be in the hands of its people. Iraq’s future will be in the hands of its people. Video: They lie ...
Turkish spy agency negotiates release of Islamic State captives
Hostages from a Turkish consulate who had been held by the Islamic State in Iraq for more than three months were released Saturday morning and flown to Turkey, officials said.
Turkey secures release of hostages held by Islamic State
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish intelligence agents brought 46 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkey on Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert rescue operation. Security sources told Reuters the hosta ...
TURKEY - IRAQ - SYRIA - Islamic State releases Turkish hostages seized in Mosul
Nothing is known about the three Iraqis abducted with the Turks. Some suspect a bargain between Turkey and the Islamic State. Ankara refuses military support for US-led coalition. Syrian Kurdish refugees are allowed in after Turkish Kurds protest. Kerry shows flexibility on Iran in the fight against ...
49 Hostages Held by Islamic Militants in Iraq Have Been Freed
Forty-six Turkish hostages, including diplomats, consulate guards and children, who had been captured and held for nearly three months by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq returned to Turkey Saturday morning following a successful Turkish covert operation. Three non-Turkish hostages taken in ...
Albania tightens security ahead of pope visit
Tirana (AFP) - Albania upped security on Saturday as it prepared to host Pope Francis amid warnings that Islamic State jihadists could be planning an attack on the Catholic leader in the mainly Muslim country. Plainclothes police were out on the streets of the capital Tirana, with some 2,500 officer ...
France Releases Video Of Its First Airstrike Against ISIS
Several months ago, when France vehemently opposed canceling the delivery of the Mistral amphibious warship to Russia, its largest bank BNP was "unexpectedly" slapped with a record $9 billion fine by the US Department of Justice for money-laundering. The retaliatory measure was so obvious even Putin ...
Syrian Refugee Barber Provides Haircuts To Iraqis Displaced By Violence
Nawan remembers how powerful a simple gesture can be. As a barber forced to leave his home country of Syria due to civil war and benefiting from the generosity of strangers in the process, the 20-year-old said he now wants to be the one helping those in similar circumstances. >That's why he -- ...
US Targets ISIS with Five More Airstrikes in Iraq
iStock/Thinkstock(BAGHDAD) -- U.S. military forces continued their attacks on ISIS this weekend, hitting the militant group with five new airstrikes. Military crews targeted the areas near Haditha and south of Baghdad on Friday and Saturday, according to U ...
