U.S. launches more airstrikes in Syria, Iraq
The U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria earlier this week were just the beginning. There will be more, President Barack Obama vowed. His words were borne out overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, when airstrikes were carried out against five more targets: four in ...
Bishop planning visit to Iraq 'mayhem'
Foreign Affairs Minister Julia Bishop addresses the Global Counterterrorism Forum in New York on Tuesday 23 September. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has again left open the possibility of Australian military action in Syria ...
Germany Begins Arms Shipment to Iraq for Fight against ISIL
The shipment of arms is set to leave Wednesday from east-central German city of Leipzig and includes bazookas, guns and ammunition, German public television ARD reported. The weapons will be handed over to 10,000 Kurds in northern Iraq who are trying to ...
U.S. conducts five more airstrikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State
Buy Print WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States military on Wednesday confirmed it had launched five more airstrikes targeting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in the latest round of attacks on the militant group. One strike hit Syria northwest of the ...
No change to Iraq policy after Philippines hostage threat: Germany
Germany said Wednesday it would not withdraw support for US action against jihadists in Iraq and Syria following a reported ultimatum from Philippine Islamist militants threatening to kill a German hostage. A foreign ministry spokeswoman said the German ...
US airstrikes across Iraq, Syria continue, Obama ‘not tolerate safe havens for terrorists’
President Obama continued to note that five Arab nations are aligned with the U.S. against the Islamic State in Syria so it “makes it clear to the world this is not America’s fight alone.” The President promised a continued fight on Tuesday saying ...
Reports: New U.S., coalition air strikes hit Iraq, Syria
U.S.and coalition aircraft mounted five air strikes early Wednesday in Iraq and Syria in the second day of attacks on terrorist targets in the region, NBC News reports, quoting U.S. military officials. The officials tell NBC News that one strike damaged ...
LIVE: Obama's Speech To The UN General Assembly...
President Barack Obama will speak around 10 a.m. ET Wednesday morning before the United Nations General Assembly, amid the backdrop of the US and partner nations launching airstrikes against the extremist group ISIS in Syria. Obama will deliver a " forceful and optimistic message of American leaders ...
Living on hope, hoping for education: the failed response to the Syrian refugee crisis
Source: Overseas Development Institute Country: Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey Four years into the Syrian crisis, over half a million Syrian refugee children are out of school – and the numbers are rising. The education crisis is fuelling an epidemic of child labour and e ...
U.S. launches new airstrikes on Islamic State in Iraq, Syria
American warplanes again attacked militants in Iraq and Syria, carrying out airstrikes on five Islamic State targets, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
If Obama Had Followed His Own Advice From 2007, We Might Not Be Fighting ISIS Today
In 2007, then-senator Barack Obama appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation and was asked by host Bob Schieffer to explain his plan for the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. “One of the things I strongly disagree with Senator McCain is, this notion that we have future catastrophe to look forward ...
Tony Abbott's decision to join US-led fight against Islamic State recalls Shakespeare
The so called Islamic State is a marauding force of Sunni adherents with an ambitious and opportunistic agenda. It seeks to fill the political and military vacuum brought about by the first American invasion of Iraq. Acquiring power behind the shield of religion is its modus operandi.
Could ISIS Influence the Future of Liberalism? This Scholar Thinks So.
As the United States confronts renewed terrorist threats in Iraq and Syria, a Heritage Foundation expert on America’s founding principles contends that “terrorism at home and war abroad” could curb the future of liberalism. Speaking yesterday as part of a panel at the think tank discussing where lib ...
