In July, the White House and Pentagon requested authority from Congress to build further “temporary intermediate staging facilities” inside Syria in order to combat ISIS more effectively. This request, it must be noted, comes in the wake of devastating ISIS defeats in Syria, mostly by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allied forces…
Is the Expanding U.S. Military Presence in Syria Legal?…
In July, the White House and Pentagon requested authority from Congress to build further “temporary intermediate staging facilities” inside Syria in order to combat ISIS more effectively. This request, it must be noted, comes in the wake of devastating ISIS defeats in Syria, mostly by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allied forces…
No, Channel 4: Islam Is Not Responsible for the Islamic State…
Unlike most historians, Tom Holland writes books which bring the past to life. This makes him a national treasure. But I am baffled by his recent documentary about Islamic State (IS), Isis: The Origins of Violence. It argues that the extreme violence of self-proclaimed IS should be interpreted in significant ways as a manifestation of […]
The Syrian Army Were Standing Up to Islamic State Long Before Americans Fired a Missile by Robert Fisk (Part 2/3)…
I don’t like armies. They are dangerous institutions. Soldiers are not heroes just because they fight. And I’ve grown tired of saying that those who live by the sword sometimes die by the sword. But in an age when the Americans and the Iraqis and Isis can account for 40,000 civilian deaths in Mosul in […]
Syrians Aren’t Just Rebuilding an Ancient Mosque in Aleppo – They Are Rebuilding Their Community (Part 3/3)…
Special Presidential Envoy McGurk Briefs on Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State Meeting (VIDEO)…
This has been a yearlong campaign in Mosul; it kind of culminated just over the last few days. I was in Iraq last week working on some of this, and very, very strong response from our coalition to support the Government of Iraq…Full Transcript – https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/07/272601.htm
REPORT: Radical Islam in UK Funded by Public Donations…
A classified report found that radical Islamic groups in Britain are raising huge sums of money through public donations, the Government has revealed. “In some cases these organisations receive hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. This is the main source of their income. Those giving may not know or support the organisations’ full agenda,” […]
‘Media ban during Mosul campaign helped conceal full extent of destruction’…
The families that lived in the heavily damaged neighborhoods of the western part of the city are unlikely to be able to return home for months, if not longer, says Lise Grande, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq. People are starting to return to the Iraqi city of Mosul after Iraqi […]
Islamic State Claims Baghdadi Was Killed…
Militants from the Islamic State (IS, terror group, outlawed in Russia) have said the organization’s leader Abu Bakr al-Bahgdadi is dead, the Al Sumaria TV channel reported on Tuesday citing a source in Iraq’s Nineveh province. According to the source, IS gunmen issued a brief statement announcing that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead […]
Egypt Blocked UN Sanctions Against Saudi Branch of Islamic State…
Egypt led a concerted effort to prevent the Saudi Arabian branch of Islamic State being added to a UN terrorism sanctions list, in what has been described as a “classic case” of Riyadh and its allies keeping its security problems away from prying eyes. The US had proposed that four IS affiliates in Saudi Arabia, […]
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