sierra leone quarantines a million people to try to stop ebola spread
News World news Ebola Ebola epidemic: Sierra Leone quarantines a million people Restrictions affect more than a third of the country’s population, as world leaders meet at UN to discuss the Ebola outbreak Share Tweet this Lisa O'Carroll, and Agence France-Presse in Freetown The Guardian, Thursday 25 ...
U.S. at War: Airstrikes have begun in Syria
John Price (Ambassador to Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros, 2002-2005) Cross-posted from Ambassador Price’s September 25, 2015 blog post. _____ Fighting between tribal and religious factions is not new. Rulers and dictators have come and gone through history. In the 12th century Sultan Saladin’s Mu ...
Syria, Iraq oil controlled by Islamic State group
BEIRUT (AP) -- For the first time since the Unites States and five Arab countries started bombing positions of the Islamic State group in Syria, oil installations under control of the militants were targeted overnight and early on Thursday. Here is a look ...
Obama's war of democracy in Iraq, Syria
One feather in the cap for many American presidents is to save a foreign democracy or, better yet, to create a new one. President Obama did not enter office with that aspiration. His goal was to first bolster American democracy. During the 2011 Arab Spring ...
Iraq's prime minister warns of alleged plot to attack subways in U.S. and Paris
NEW YORK (AP) - Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that captive Islamic State militants told his intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris. A senior Obama administration official said no one in the U.S ...
U.S.: Iraq Wrong About ISIS Bombing NYC
Iraq's prime minister made the scary announcement Thursday that ISIS is planning an imminent attack on New York's subway, but U.S. officials have no idea what he's talking about. "I'm receiving accurate reports from Baghdad that there were arrests of a few ...
US Army to Deploy Hundreds of Fort Riley Soldiers to Iraq
About 500 troops from the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division in Fort Riley, Kansas, will head to Iraq and other countries in the Middle East next month to help coordinate the campaign against the Islamic State, the Pentagon said Thursday. More than 200 ...
Scott Brown’s Iraq amnesia: Former senator conveniently forgets why we didn’t leave troops behind
Following up on today’s dissection of Scott Brown’s foreign policy vision (panic about ISIS, close the border), it’s worth taking a closer look at one area in which Brown claims to have been prescient: the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.
Audio: Iraq War critic says Iraq withdrawal may have been the worst strategic mistake of all
Dexter Filkins has long been a skeptic and critic of the Iraq war, from his tenure at the New York Times to his current assignment at the New Yorker. Still, that hasn’t kept Filkins from reporting honestly on developments in the theater; in 2008, while ...
