Supporting Local Recovery Initiatives Through Micro-finance in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Somalia and Yemen
Source: Qatar Charity Country: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Yemen The challenges facing those caught up in a seeming never-ending cycle of human-made and natural disasters seem endless. Oftentimes a growing reliance on external assistance leads to a form of 'depend ...
Και όμως, αν πέσει η Αντιόχεια, ξεκινα η “Αποκαλυψη”. Η ηρωϊκη Συρία μάχεται για το μέλλον της ανθρωπότητας.
As the US begins token airstrikes on both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border, the fighting capacity of the “Islamic State” or “ISIS,” has seen no visible setbacks. This is because ISIS is in fact the very proxy mercenaries intentionally created to fight the West’s proxy war against Iran and its arc of ...
Jihadist Arrested in Belgium Had Legal Greek Permit
A jihadist arrested in Belgium on charges of participating in jihadist operations in Syria and Iraq had a legal residency permit in Greece, authorities say. On Wednesday, a 24-year old jihadist travelled from Athens International Airport to Charleroi, Belgium. He passed undetected by Greek authoriti ...
Top 5 Differences Between Hamas and Islamic State (Pace Netanyahu)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech at the U.N. to a half-empty hall in which he tried to exemplify the most logical fallacies in a short period of time. Related Entries January 11, 2006 Site Preferences September 30, 2014 Why Obama Underestimated IS in Syria and Iraq
US Global Power in the 21st Century: Military or Economic Imperialism?
By James Petras, 99GetSmart Introduction Despite vast amounts of imperial data to the contrary, the great majority of writers on imperialism continue to describe and analyze US imperialism strictly in economic terms, as an expansion of “capital accumulation”, “accumulation on a world scale”. In fact ...
Syrian refugees: Inter-agency regional update, 29 September 2014
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey HIGHLIGHTS Some 160,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into southern Turkey since 19 September following an insurgency of the Islamic State in northern Syria. Support is limited for the 84 per ...
NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND
Doesn't it bother you that our troops are going to be barefoot in Iraq?
IOM Helps US to Resettle Over 69,500 Refugees during the 2014 Fiscal Year, as Hollywood Prepares for the Release of “The Good Lie” - Movie about “Lost Boys of Sudan”
Source: International Organization for Migration Country: United States of America, Sudan United States - IOM has assisted the United States in the resettlement of close to 70,000 refugees from some 80 countries during the US fiscal year ending today, which coincides with this week’s release of The ...
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Special Report: Wheat warfare - Islamic State uses grain to tighten grip in Iraq
SHEKHAN Iraq (Reuters) - For Salah Paulis, it came down to a choice between his faith and his crop. A wheat farmer from outside Mosul, Paulis and his family fled the militant group Islamic State early last month. The group overran the family farm as part ...
Mideast Iraq
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand guard with their weapons as they patrol the front line with the Islamic State group near the Rashad Bridge, which connects the provinces of Salah al-Din and Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday ...
Kurd troops attack Iraq jihadists on three fronts
Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) - Kurdish troops launched offensives against the Islamic State jihadist group on three fronts in northern Iraq on Tuesday, senior officers told AFP. Troops struck before dawn against a town on the Syrian border, north of jihadist ...
Why Obama Underestimated IS in Syria and Iraq
This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page. President Obama admitted on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday that the US had underestimated the military potential of ISIL. Obama understands that a generational struggle is going on in the Middle East ...
MoD: Very presence of aircraft over Iraq has an impact
The Ministry of Defence said the "very presence" of coalition aircraft over Iraq has "a significant impact" on Islamic State’s efforts to attack locally. "With no effective defence against air strikes, and knowing the precision with which coalition ...
No jihadists going to Iraq via Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 (Bernama) -- No Islamic State (IS) jihadists have entered Iraq directly through Malaysia, Iraqi ambassador to Malaysia Prof Dr Basim Hattab Al-Tumma, said today. He said this was because the embassy here had very stringent visa ...
New Zealand PM Under Pressure To Support Coalition Forces In Iraq: NZ First Party Wants Parliament To Decide
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key seems to be in a dilemma on committing defence forces to support the U.S. coalition in Iraq. Contrary to earlier positions, Mr. Key is not ruling out deploying New Zealand Special Air Service Regiment (NZSAS) personnel ...
Voices: A long love affair with Iraq
WASHINGTON — Bombings, beheadings and sectarian violence. Iraq today is a far different country than it was in 1957, when Phebe Marr, a 26-year-old graduate student, first set foot in the country after a bumpy bus ride from Beirut to Baghdad. Back then ...
