Pentagon to deploy 12 A-10s to Middle East
By Kristina Wong - 09/22/14 01:39 PM EDT The Pentagon is deploying 300 airmen and 12 A-10 combat jets to the Middle East in early October, according to the Indiana Air National Guard. The six-month deployment from the 122nd Fighter Wing is not specifically part of President Obama’s fight against the ...
Pro-ISIS Algerian Terrorist ID’d – Threatens to Behead French Hostage in Video
Pro-ISIS fighters with the Jund al-Khilifa terrorist group in Algeria released a video Monday of hostage Hervé Gourdel who was kidnapped last weekend. The hostage delivered a message to President Francois Hollande: “I am in the hands of Jund al-Khilifa, an Algerian armed group. This armed group is a ...
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The United States and its allies began airstrikes in Syria with a massive assault across vast swaths of the country’s airspace last night. Foreign Policy carries the story. President Barack Obama authorized the the strikes, which, according to CENTCOM, involved a “mix of fighter, bomber, and Tomahaw ...
Самый опасный враг — Россия
Оригинал взят у basra75 в Самый опасный враг — Россия Лондонская газета Financial Times опубликовала материал под названием «Россия – это наш самый опасный сосед (Russia is our most dangerous neighbour)». Газета пишет: — В Москве царит картина смешения чувства жалости к самим себе и бахвальства. Кар ...
French Muslims support Mideast Christians against Islamic State
Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, June 11, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Stringer By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS, Sept 9 Tue Sep 9, 2014 5:22pm BST PARIS, Sept 9 (Reuters)- The Muslim Council in France, home to ...
Iraq Prime Minister Abadi Retires Two Top Generals After Islamic State Conquests
Riyadh/Dubai: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi retired two senior generals on Tuesday as part of an overhaul of armed forces that collapsed this summer in the face of Islamic State insurgents who seized wide areas of northern and western Iraq.
Iraq PM Abadi retires two top generals after Islamic State conquests
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi retired two senior generals on Tuesday as part of an overhaul of the country's armed forces, which collapsed this summer in the face of Islamic State insurgents who seized wide areas of northern and ...
3,000 European jihadis now in Syria, Iraq – EU
The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has surged to about 3,000 from 2,000 only months ago, the EU counter-terrorism chief said Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with AFP, Gilles de Kerchove said the flow of Europeans may ...
US strikes target Isis in Syria but Pentagon insists focus remains on Iraq
While US and Arab aircraft pummelled targets across Syria on Monday night, a senior Pentagon general on Tuesday said the cross-border expansion of the war against the Islamic State (Isis) had a sharp focus on Iraq. Fourteen different strikes against Isis ...
