Leadership at last! But where will the Iraq war machine take Australia?
Yet we saddle up knowing nothing of the historical or cultural context of what has gripped northern Iraq and Syria. No one in the war party has made the most cursory attempt to get to grips with the forces that are at play. Instead, the reflex position is ...
Iraq mission awaits cabinet, UN clearance
AUSTRALIAN special forces and aircraft won't be sent into Iraq until cabinet considers a risk assessment and the United Nations gives the operation the nod. THE first of 600 Australian Defence Force members will deploy to the Middle East within days, to ...
Australian jihadists facing coalition attack in Iraq ‘know the risks’ they face: Tony Abbott
AUSTRALIAN jihadists facing bombardment by RAAF aircraft in Iraq have chosen to stand “against our common humanity” and “know the risks”, Tony Abbott says. The Prime Minister today warned Australian forces could continue operating in Iraq for ...
Bangalore: Christians express solidarity with the persecuted of Iraq-Syria
Bangalore, Sep 15: Christians of Bangalore offered mass prayers and expressed solidarity with the thousands of innocent people who are being persecuted and subjected to inhuman violence and other atrocities by the Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq, Syria ...
Australian forces could face heavy burden in Iraq
It was mid-June when militant forces took control of Iraq's second-largest city, routed thousands of Iraqi soldiers, and brought ISIL to the world's attention. Now, 95 days later, the government has announced it will forward stage elements of the ...
Barack Obama's Iraq plan is sound but the Middle East is a graveyard for good intentions
There's an air of tragedy about President Barack Obama. He wants to chart a new course for the most powerful nation on Earth – pivot to the Pacific, end the long decade of war – but the old world's most derelict, dysfunctional quarters keep pulling him ...
Iraq's Allawi endorses PM, says will help win over Sunnis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Vice President Iyad Allawi endorsed Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday, a move that will be seen as a step towards reconciliation in a political system that desperately needs to rebuild to allow Baghdad to fight Islamic State.
Iraq plans a new force to counter Islamic State. Here’s why some say it’s doomed.
BAGHDAD — Watban al-Jabbouri is the kind of man that the Iraqi and U.S. governments are depending on to turn the tide against the Islamic State fighters who have seized a huge swath of territory in this country. For three months, the 33-year-old Sunni ...
John Kerry Says 40 Countries Have Joined Obama’s Coalition Against ISIS – But Nobody Knows Who They Are
( EBay) Former President George W. Bush put together a 48 member coalition for the Iraq War in 2003. 40 of those members supported military operations and 37 provided some number troops. In April 2003, the list was updated to include 49 countries, though it was reduced to 48 after Costa Rica objecte ...
Una mujer de muchos mundos
Por Sebastián El reciente número de Kya! está dedicado a un personaje sumamente interesante, no sólo por ser una figura destacada en su rubro sino por la historia que hay tras ella. Una historia muestra cómo las fronteras culturales entre países se han borrado, dando oportunidades a personas de los ...
Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan feel sidelined as US assembles anti-Islamic State coalition
ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Iraqi Kurds were once considered the one domestic force that could stop ISIS’s onslaught, but recent battlefield losses to the Sunni militants have called that theory into question. Now, with the Obama administration assembling an international coalition to ro ...
40+ Nations in America’s Anti-ISIS Coalition, But Few to Do Anything
The Obama Administration has been desperate over the past few weeks to cobble together a massive “coalition” of nations to fight ISIS, an attempt to convince the American public that the war is not going to be “America’s war” to fight alone. Over 40 nations have now signed on, with 26 of them expect ...
Oil the next commodity domino?
The oil price is taking a shellacking today on the terrible Chinese data, down north of 1%: The weekly chart is already through key support and targeting $85: I was one that thought we would see consistent geo-political premium in prices as Iraq deteriorates. However BofAML has an intersting opposit ...
Iraqi President: No Need for Arab Nations to Strike ISIS
The Obama Administration’s efforts to cobble together a coalition of nations for the new war on ISIS has netted a handful of Sunni Arab nations willing to conduct airstrikes inside Iraq, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and by some accounts Egypt. The big problem is that no one aske ...
FOREIGN POLICY: PLS DO MORE STOOPID STUFF LOL KTHXBYE
And so we are at war with ISIS now. Or ISIL. Or IS. Or, if yr Fox News, IIG (Islam In General). Anyway. Good morning, I was sitting in the business class lounge in Mactan International Airport just after Presidente Obama unveiled his anti-ISISISILISIIG strategy, which meant I overheard the talking h ...
