Seed of Maniknd By Sabrina James Riley
Seed of Man i knd By- Sabrina James Riley The Sumerians were a richly cultured civilization that thrived in Mesopotamia - the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq - for thousands of years. Among their other remarkable feats, the Sumerians had a deep, organized religion tha ...
Review: ‘House of the Wolf’ a Multigenerational Novel with Women’s Lives at the Center
Ezzat al-Kamhawi’s House of the Wolf (trans. Nancy Roberts) , winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, is a multi-generational epic in the tradition of Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy . But unlike the trilogy, which centers on a Cairo patriarch, al-Kamhawi’s book begins and ends with a village outcast, a fe ...
John Kerry praises Australia for military pledge on Iraq
Addressing the United Nations Security Council, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has singled out Australia for thanks for its commitment of forces to combat Islamic State militants in Iraq.
From gangsta rapper to Islamist militant
The former Denis Cuspert, now converted and calling himself Abu Talha (Der Spiegel) As war in Syria and Iraq attracts a growing number of Muslim extremists from Europe, intelligence officials in Germany believe a former gangsta rapper has joined the inner circle of Islamists fighting there. Denis Cu ...
Turkish Hostages Of ISIS Freed
(Adds Davutoglu quotes, details) ISTANBUL, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday 49 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in June have been brought safely back to Turkey by the country's intelligence agency. The hostages, ...
Kerry: Iran Can Help Defeat ISIS
Secretary of State John Kerry continues to very publicly change his mind on his position vis-a-vis Iran in the war against ISIS, insisting today that Iran has a “role” to play in the destruction of ISIS. Over the past two weeks, Kerry has several times ruled out including Iran in the anti-ISIS coali ...
Obama's Two Previous Defense Secretaries Are Criticizing His ISIS Policy
Two defense secretaries who previously served under President Obama are now criticizing his decisions in countering the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS). In a new interview with CBS Evening News, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says ISIS emerged as a threat ...
Turkish hostages seized in northern Iraq are free: Davutoglu
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday 49 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in June have been brought safely back to Turkey by the country's intelligence agency. The ...
US generals challenge Obama on ground troops in Iraq, Syria
The accelerating drive to a new US war in the Middle East, extending from Iraq to Syria and potentially beyond, has laid bare a stark contradiction between President Barack Obama’s public rejection of any US “boots on the ground” and increasingly ...
Iran rules out cooperation with US in Iraq
Saturday, September 20, 2014 - New York—Iran’s foreign minister ruled out cooperating with the United States in helping Iraq fight Islamic State militants and warned that the terrorist group poses a much broader global threat that needs new thinking to ...
