Contents: Tempers flare as EU leaders debate the migrant crisis; Europe looks for ways to reduce the volume of migrants; China’s Xi Jinping congratulates himself on stopping stock market crash
The European Union has passed a deal that secures the distribution of 120,000 Middle Eastern and African migrants throughout the continent. The migrants, many stuck in interim nations before reaching what they hope to be their final destination, are now continuing those voyages as per the EU.
A suburb of Baghdad is currently experiencing a wave of cholera, triggered by increasingly poor hygiene and depleted resources as the Iraqi government struggles to expand its control over territories coveted by the Islamic State terrorist group.
Contents: Russia and China show interest in the Arctic’s oil and gas reserves; Russia pours military weapons and personnel into Syria
Some Iraq soldiers are abandoning their posts and joining a wave of civilian migrants headed to Europe, raising new doubts about the cohesion of the country’s Western-backed security forces in the fight against Islamic State militants. Interviews with migrants and
Former United States Congressman Tom Tancredo joined Stephen K. Bannon on a recent Sirius XM Breitbart News Saturday Radio program, warning of the dangers amidst the “like somebody rang a bell” European migrant crisis. The phenomenon is bringing predominantly young men, “colonists essentially,” from the Middle East to countries with substantial social welfare programs.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued, “I’m not sure that we attack every government that declares war on us” on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor.” Carson discussed his opposition to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars
About 330 Islamic State fighters have been killed in British air strikes since the Royal Air Force began carrying out raids against the group in September last year, Britain’s Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said. “This figure is highly approximate,
Patriarch Louis Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, is the latest Christian leader to ask Christians in the Middle East not to abandon their homelands despite threats from radical Islamic groups. He also slammed the countries who give preferential treatment to Christian refugees.
The United States has deployed a force of 160 American Army soldiers in an effort to seize back Ramadi from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq, according to Arab media.
Lt. General Vincent Stewart, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said on Thursday that he feared Iraq and Syria might never recover from the Islamic State invasion, Syrian civil war, and related stress factors. “I’m having a tough time seeing it come back together,” Stewart confessed, as quoted by the Associated Press.
Four decorated veterans, convicted of allegedly shooting into a crowd of Iraqi civilians indiscriminately while working as private security contractors hired by the federal government, recently filed a motion to persuade their trial judge to promptly rule on their new trial request, arguing that the Obama administration used perjured testimony to secure their guilty verdicts.
Those who attempt to escape deserve their death and destruction, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) argues in the latest issue of their magazine Dabiq, using a photo of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi to emphasize their point.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over as leader of al-Qaeda after the liquidation of Osama bin Laden, has released an audio message accusing ISIS leader and self-proclaimed “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of “sedition” and declaring war against the Islamic State.
Kurdish official Saeed Mamouzini told IraqiNews.com that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) kidnapped 127 children in Mosul, Iraq, to train them as jihadists.
Sixteen Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) fighters who have contracted HIV from two Moroccan sex slaves were reportedly ordered to become suicide fighters.
Turkey has sent ground forces into Iraq to chase down Kurdish militants for the first time since a ceasefire deal was reached more than two years ago.
The latest novel execution method to emerge from the gruesome imagination of the Islamic State is a throwback to cartoon villainy: they trussed the two men up, put them in a ruined building with some dynamite, and made them watch the sputtering fuse burn down until the explosion killed them.
Small Christian militias continue to fight for Iraq–men determined to stop the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) from destroying their homeland and heritage. The Assyrian fighters are one of many groups profiled in the past year who are willing to stand up to the radical Islamic group.
Hollywood star and humanitarian activist Angelina Jolie has issued a call for a “strong response” to Islamic State (IS). Speaking in Westminster, London, she highlighted the radical Sunni Islamist group’s deliberately calculated use of mass rape as “a centrepoint of their
When ISIS came for Zeinat and her family, they ran, terrified, for the safety of the mountains.
Contents: Egypt’s army starts ‘The Martyr’s Right’ operation in North Sinai; Turkey’s troops enter northern Iraq to hunt PKK after terror attacks; Violence spreads in cities across Turkey; Pro-government mobs in Turkey storm Hurriyet offices for alleged Erdogan misquote; Turkey appears to be approaching civil war.
Raghab Ahmed told The Daily Mail how ISIS taught him and other young boys to kill at the terrorist group’s infamous training camps.
The Washington Post has decided to run an article from editorial page editor Fred Hiatt pinning blame for the Syrian catastrophe on President Barack Obama.
Press TV reported that an Iraqi woman killed a top Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) commander in Mosul after he forced her into sex slavery.
