U.S. Military Advisers Learn They Can No Longer Work With the Iraq Army
Gen. Martin Dempsey (AP/Jacquelyn Martin). WASHINGTON -- Less than three years after its withdrawal, the United States has encountered significant obstacles in resuming training and coordination with Iraq's military. Officials said the Defense Department ...
Sad but true: Christianity in Iraq is finished
In the part of his Sept. 10 speech on confronting the Islamic State that probably drew the least attention, U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned the need to help Christians and other minorities, expelled from cities and villages in northern Iraq, return ...
Obama to meet new Iraq PM and Egyptian president in New York
President Barack Obama will hold his first official meetings with new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week. Obama will meet Abadi on Wednesday and Sisi on ...
Iraq situation demands China to engage
The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 and toppled the Saddam Hussein government without authorization of the United Nations. The situation in the Middle East has now taken a dangerous turn with the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which poses ...
Iraq FM predicts longer campaign against ISIS in Syria
Defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq will require less time than in neighboring Syria, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told Al Arabiya’s Talal al-Hajj in New York on Monday. Jaafari said 41 states were standing beside ...
Labor MP Melissa Parke received death threat on Twitter over Iraq dissent
A Federal MP who spoke out against the escalation of Australia's military involvement in Iraq says she was sent a death threat on Twitter. Melissa Parke, a former human rights lawyer and now Labor MP in Western Australia, made the revelation in a speech to ...
Around the table: more tales of elite folly.
Wondering how corporations have "the rights of personhood" but don't ever, you know, go to prison? Kate Cox at The Consumerist will explain it to you. The first part takes a historical perspective; the second part discusses the landmark (and nefarious) Citizens United and Hobby Lobby cases; and the ...
Expert: ISIS Changing the Entire Middle East
Extremists' takeovers in Iraq and Syria changing the entire face of Middle Eastern relations, expert says. What does it mean for Israel?
Untitled
THE INDEPENDENT How far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the Islamic world? Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intellige ...
Assange: Google è come la Cia, il suo business è spiarci
Assange: Google fa lo stesso mestiere della Cia e funziona come la Nsa, il suo grande business è spiarci, per la pubblicità e la politica estera Usa. Julian Assange nel suo nuovo libro “When Google Met WikiLeaks” è durissimo: «Se volete una visione del futuro», scrive, «immaginate occhiali di Google ...
Blair asegura que se necesitan tropas terrestres para derrotar al Estado Islámico
El ex primer ministro británico, Tony Blair, comentó que desplegar tropas de combate por tierra a Siria e Iraq contra las milicias del Estado Islámico no debería ser descartado por el Reino Unido. “Si no combatimos a esta gente por tierra, lograremos contenerlos, pero no derrotarlos”, declaró Blair ...
Syria Crisis Response Updated 19 Sept 2014
Source: Save the Children Country: Syrian Arab Republic, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon REGIONAL OVERVIEW SYRIA KEY FACTS According to UNHCR 3,032,494 have now fled Syria. More than 1.7 million of them fled in 2013 alone. During the course of 2013, an average of more than 4,700 people fled every day. ...
Kerry talks about current affairs
Interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe QUESTION: Joining us now on set, the Secretary of State John Kerry. Great to have you on board, sir. SECRETARY KERRY: Good to be here. Thank you. Good to be back. QUESTION: Let’s start with a kind of overarching question here: Who is in the coalition in the Muslim wo ...
