Cobbling a coalition to fight militants in Iraq, Syria no easy task
ANKARA, Turkey — Assembling a coalition to fight the militants from the Islamic State group is proving to be a complicated affair. France is all in, but would like to invite Iran — against the wishes of the United States. The U.S. is pressing Turkey ...
France looks for central role in Iraq after Saddam era
Eleven years after refusing to follow Britain and the United States into Iraq, France is now trying to take centre stage in a country overrun by jihadists with a leading diplomatic - and possibly military - role. Just days before an international ...
Like predecessors, Obama drawn back into Iraq
Like most Americans, President Barack Obama is tired of war. Unlike most Americans, he just started another one. In launching his new campaign against Islamic State terrorists inside Iraq and Syria, the Nobel peace laureate acknowledged the engagement ...
ISIS has over 31,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq: CIA
WASHINGTON: American intelligence experts have more than doubled their estimate of Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria — from 10,000 previously to between 20000 and 31500 now — even as the Obama administration is struggling to put together a ...
US Congress wary of greenlighting 'Iraq 2.0'
Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers will likely give President Barack Obama authority to train Syrian rebels to combat jihadists, but Democrats and many Republicans are wary of repeating America's Iraq war debacle. Mindful of the risks of war in the Middle ...
US will be ramping up airstrikes soon — in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — As U.S. forces gear up for airstrikes in Syria, the first demonstration of President Barack Obama's more aggressive military campaign against the Islamic State group is likely to unfold first in Iraq as early as next week, officials ...
A Third Decade of Bombing Iraq
Bombing ISIS amounts to attacking a symptom rather than finding a cure. But the cure would require addressing politically sensitive issues, such as Israel oppressing Palestinians and Saudi Arabia financing Islamic extremism. So the U.S. does what it ...
Boehner promises support to new leader of Iraq
WASHINGTON – Speaker John Boehner on Friday promised Iraq's prime minister that the House will provide the new government in Baghdad the U.S. assistance necessary to defeat Islamic militants. In an unusual move, Haider al-Abadi wrote to Boehner earlier ...
Iraq's speaker warns of civilian deaths from U.S. air strikes
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament speaker Salim al-Jabouri has told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that air strikes on Islamic State should not kill civilians, the speaker said to Reuters in an interview. President Barack Obama has promised to ...
Independence - it's the real thing
Scotland is within days of re-taking our independence. My old friend Jim Sillars brilliantly summed-up what will happen on Thursday (September 18 th), saying, “The referendum is about power. Between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. The ...
Palestinians Authority Claims Obama 'Is A Sadist From The Times When The Whites Persecuted The Blacks'
At the end of July, the official newspaper of the "moderate" Palestinian Authority ran an op-ed which claimed among other things, President Obama is a "black president whose crimes have surpassed those of all the white presidents," and "he is a sadist from the times when the whites persecuted the bl ...
U.S.-U.K. have killed millions in Iraq in attempt to control oil/gas markets
War Is A Crime .org: "Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were “exterminated” by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says."
Op-Talk: Readers Respond: Wary Support for Obama’s ISIS Strategy
In comments on various articles about the president’s speech, readers discussed ISIS and the perceived need for the U.S. to respond to recent events in Iraq. > > >
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Media Mining Digest 148 – 12 Sept 2014: 401(k) Plans, Acoustic History, Airbnb, America Defined, Ata Kak Musician, Bit Coin Impact, Book Prices in Europe, California Climate Change, Charlie Rangel, Ch ...
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Where is the UN now that Obama is going to war?
When George W Bush proposed going into Iraq the Left - Labor included - couldn’t talk enough about needing UN backing. Why is…
Palestinian Paper: Obama Has Committed More Crimes Than All the White Presidents Combined
Barack Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet in the White House. The Palestinian official newspaper reported this week that Obama has committed crimes that have surpassed all of the white presidents. Israel National News reported: A Palestinian Authority (PA) official newspaper actively ...
#NewsAroundNigeria 12/9/2014
Daily Times •News New Lagos CP Vows To End Gang Wars Emir of Kano Raises Alarm Over Increasing Number of Divorce Cardinal Arinze Decries Corruption In Places Of Worship In The Country Ebola: NAFDAC Warns Nigerians Over Fake Test Kits Ebola: OAU Tells Foreign Students to Stay in Their Countries f ...
