Obama and His All-Arab Coalition Launch First Round of Airstrikes Against Syria. “Golf and Awww” Ensues.
The Obama Administration and its limited coalition of Arab (Muslim) Allies launched airstrikes against Sunni militants in Syria early Tuesday, launching cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs from the air and sea on the Radical Muslims of ISIS/ISIL, targeting their de facto capital of Raqqa, whi ...
‘F-16s not a strategy’: Blair, US generals call for boots on ground to battle ISIS
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com ‘F-16s not a strategy’: Blair, US generals call for boots on ground to battle ISIS By Russia Todayyoutube.com Washington has so far ruled out sending in troops to Syria and Iraq. But some top U.S. officials say there’s no wa ...
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U.S., Arab Allies Launch Strikes Against Militant Targets In Syria – Wall Street Journal … “ The U.S. and several Middle Eastern allies struck Islamic State militants in Syria, the Pentagon said Monday night, expanding a U.S. campaign into a country that has been a haven for the extremist group. Usi ...
World Leaders Are Flooding Into New York This Week For A Crucial Meeting – Business Insider
Originally posted on Starship Earth: The Big Picture: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks at a news conference ahead of the 69th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York Wouldn’t you just love to know what else they are discussing at the UN, this week? -LW UNI ...
Ciclo "Árabes de América"
La presencia árabe, producto del hecho migratorio desde finales del siglo XIX, es uno de los distintos componentes constitutivos de las identidades en América. Este hecho ha dado lugar a diferentes prácticas sociales, expresiones culturales singulares, y en algunos países, está sirviendo para articu ...
How God comforts us and redeems our valleys
As a veil of darkness covers those who walk in a valley, they risk slowly losing sight of their value. With limited vision and waning light, the sojourner gradually believes they have little to contribute or difference to make. While Evil enjoys the process of marginalizing us in times of distress, ...
French PM vows 'no negotiation' with Algeria hostage-takers
Paris (AFP) - France's prime minister on Tuesday vowed there would be "no discussion, no negotiation" with an Algerian group linked to Islamic State jihadists that has claimed the kidnapping of a French citizen and stressed Paris would continue air strikes on the extremists. Manuel Valls told French ...
Weeks of U.S. Strikes Fail to Dislodge ISIS in Iraq
Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com Weeks of U.S. Strikes Fail to Dislodge ISIS in Iraq DAVID’D. KIRKPATRICK and OMAR AL-JAWOSHY NY Times September 23, 2014 BAGHDAD After six weeks of American airstrikes, the Iraqi governments forces have scarcely budged the S ...
International politics of the Middle East daily links 09/23/2014
Army’s Top Officer Wonders if the Post-9/11 Wars Have Been Worth It | TIME Tags: US, USA, military, ISIS, Iraq, Syria, gwot Posted from Diigo. The rest of International Politics of the Middle East group favorite links are here.
Iraq successfully conducts national mass polio immunization campaign supported by UNICEF and WHO
Source: World Health Organization Country: Iraq ERBIL, 23 September 2014 – A mass polio immunization campaign that was carried out this week in the midst of ongoing violence in Iraq has concluded successfully in all 18 Governorates throughout the country. The campaign was the first national polio va ...
West trains Iraq Kurds to fight Islamic State
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - Western countries including the United States are training Kurdish peshmerga forces in Iraq to fight Islamic State militants who have overrun around a third of the country. Outgunned and untested for years, the Kurds failed their ...
France won't stop fight in Iraq despite kidnapping
PARIS (AP) — France's prime minister says his country won't stop fighting Islamic State militants despite demands by kidnappers holding a French hostage. The 55-year-old man was abducted in Algeria on Monday by a splinter group from al-Qaida's North ...
Iraq exports more oil from southern terminals far from conflict
LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iraq's oil exports from its southern terminals on the Gulf, far from the fighting in its north, have increased so far this month as bad weather and logistical delays subsided, approaching a record high reached in May. Three ...
Sexual violence as a war strategy in Iraq
Women's rights "These are strategic theories of rape in wartime which have been deliberately practiced by IS jihadists in Syria and now in Iraq," writes Dr Nazand Begikhani. In the last few days, while the world has been overwhelmed by the flow of ...
Man arrested on suspicion of making homemade bombs in Iraq
A man has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices in Iraq in 2007, Scotland Yard has said. The 37-year-old was detained at his home in north-west London by the Metropolitan police’s counter terrorism ...
