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Subscription Box: Powell's Indiespensable #49
Powell's Indiespensable Book Club Volume 49: The Bone Clocks Since 2008, Powell's Books of Portland, OR has run a book club/subscription service that sends a new hardcover book, in a custom slipcase, and a couple of bookish surprises every six weeks to its subscribers. Sound cool? It gets better. Ea ...
ISIS Is Having An Alarmingly Easy Time Recruiting Fighters In Turkey
A startling number of recruits for ISIS come from neighboring Turkey, according to a report by Ceylan Yengisu of The New York Times. "As many as 1,000 Turks have joined ISIS, according to Turkish news media reports and government officials here," Yengisu writes. Turkey, a secular Muslim country led ...
U.N. experts caution powers they must heed ‘laws of war’ in fighting IS
GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations war crimes investigators for Syria on Tuesday cautioned world powers preparing military action against Islamic State fighters that the 'laws of war' would apply to them and they must do everything possible to protect civilians. They said ISIS, which controls swathes ...
ISIS Battle Helping Formation of Shia Horn (Daniel 8:8)
Battle Against ISIS Continues After Coalitions, New Iraqi Government Form IVN News Sep 15, 2014 By Andrew Gripp Since the incursion of ISIS into western and northern Iraq, groups normally at odds are forming ad hoc coalitions to repel the jihadist army. Following the U.S. airstrikes on August 8 to d ...
Top general: U.S. ground troops possible in Iraq
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., seated left, confers with Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appear before the panel to examine ...
Pentagon chiefs warn U.S. ground troops may be needed in Iraq
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the military's top officer, opened the door Tuesday to sending U.S. troops to fight alongside Iraqi soldiers against Islamic State militants, despite President Obama’s repeated vows not to do so. Dempsey, who chairs the Joint Chiefs ...
U.S. general says cannot rule out larger ground role in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most senior U.S. military officer raised the possibility on Tuesday that American troops might need to take on a larger role in Iraq's ground war against Islamic State militants, but the White House stressed they would not deploy ...
U.S. airstrikes target Islamic militants in Iraq
The Defense Department says the U.S. military on Tuesday pressed its expanded campaign against Islamic State militants with five airstrikes across Iraq. U.S. Central Command says military forces using fighter aircraft launched two airstrikes northwest of ...
