The West’s Multiculturalism Blows Up on the ISIS Battlefield…and Here at Home
The Islamist State’s chief propagandist is believed to be a wealthy American. His name is Ahmad Abousamra, he is 32 years old, and he is the son of a Boston doctor. He is young and he is not poor, and he is not ignorant. He is also not unacquainted with western notions of individual freedom. He just ...
British parliament set to approve air strikes against IS in Iraq
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged lawmakers on Friday to vote in favour of Britain joining U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq, hours ahead of a crunch parliamentary vote he is expected to win. Approval would mean Britain embarking on its first military c ...
ISIS Setting Their Sights On New York City Terror Targets
Islamic State terrorist: We’ll ‘make some attacks in New York soon’ With grizzly beheadings already taking place in Oklahoma, and our southern borders being purposely left unguarded, it’s only logical that New York City should be expecting another brutal terror attack that Obama will most assuredly ...
The Number One Threat to the US Above Terrorism
Two airmen, Davis and Jones, were assigned to the induction center, where they advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance. Airman Davis went right to it with an enthusiastic pitch. “Could I have everyone from row three to row one stand up please?” he projecte ...
Syria and Iraq: ICRC calls for better compliance with humanitarian law
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross Country: Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq The International Committee of the Red Cross is appealing to all parties involved in the Syria and Iraq conflicts to uphold the fundamental principle of human dignity, to spare the civilian population the effects of ...
Islamic State drags Obama back into Mideast quagmire
BEIRUT (Reuters) - American-led and Arab-backed air strikes carrying the fight against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria have dragged Washington into a new Middle East war - exactly the kind of conflict Barack Obama spent his presidency trying to avoid. No one doubts this dramatic escalation presag ...
U.S.-led strikes pressure al Qaeda’s Syria group to join with Islamic State
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front, is facing mounting pressure from its own members to reconcile with its rival Islamic State and confront a common enemy after U.S.-led air strikes hit both groups this week. But that move would require pledging loyalty to Islamic Stat ...
Iraq Weekly Humanitarian Situation Report 16th – 22th September 2014
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Iraq Highlights UNICEF provided psychosocial support services (PSS) for a total of 2,127 children in the Governorate of Erbil via its network of static and mobile child friendly spaces (CFS). In the central and south zones, UNICEF trucked approximately 2,336,250 l ...
Comment on Killing people rarely kills their ideas by Just Visiting
> For Sunni Iraq however the political solution is the one which needs to be followed Easy to use those words: but what exactly does that mean in detail, though? Caroline was short on detail - and, despite a long post, you are too.
Humanitarian Access (as of 9 September 2014)
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Iraq Levels of Access Defining difficulty of access is a combination of access of humanitarian actors to the affected population as well sec urity and physical constraints. The presence of multiple security and access indicators ...
U.S. combat role in Iraq not off table, Gen. Dempsey says
WASHINGTON – The nation’s top military commander refused Friday to back off his controversial stance in Senate testimony that he would recommend committing U.S. troops to combat in Iraq if he believed they were needed to help defeat Islamic State ...
