Tag: Iraq

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroys Christian and Muslim shrines and tombs because of idolatry. However, the jihadists know the value of items and manage to sell them to Western antique collectors.  Antique sales pushed the group’s accounts from under $1,000

Qatari officials told the BBC Monday that they reject any and all accusations relating to the Gulf state supporting the Islamic State terror group, insisting that the country has only supported ‘moderate’ groups during the most recent flare up of

Officials from the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) federal intelligence service told Germany’s members of Parliament in a secret briefing last week that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) may have the capabilities to strike down a passenger jet. According to Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper, the

This story originally appeared in Politico Magazine:  When President Obama, after months of equivocation over how to respond to the takeover of parts of Iraq and Syria by radical militants, announced in September that the United States would “lead a

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber driving a military Humvee struck a checkpoint manned by Iraqi troops and pro-government Shiite militiamen south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 24 people, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for

TORONTO (AP) — A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that police say shows he was driven by

This story originally appeared in BBC Magazine: In June the leader of Islamic State declared the creation of a caliphate stretching across parts of Syria and Iraq – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named himself the caliph or leader. Edward Stourton examines

SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Just over a year ago, Afshin Kobani was a teacher. Now, the Kurdish Syrian woman has traded the classroom for the front lines in the battle for Kobani, a town besieged by fighters from the Islamic

On October 23, USMC Lance Corporal Sean P. Neal died in Baghdad. He was the second Marine to die in October in the fight against ISIS. Neal was from Riverside, California. He joined the Marines in 2013. According to the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Two-year-old baby in Mali dies after spreading Ebola WHO: ‘Millions of doses of Ebola vaccine by end of 2015’ World Health Organization declares a global polio outbreak Stephen K. Bannon interviews John Xenakis about

The Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) invasion of Iraq has left 90% of the nation’s Orthodox Christians displaced, fleeing religious persecution and ethnic cleansing, according to Ghattas Hazim, Greek Orthodox Bishop for Baghdad, Kuwait, and their surroundings, who must now travel into that

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants used chlorine gas during fighting with security forces and Shiite militiamen last month north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said on Friday. The use of chlorine gas as a weapon adds a new concern to

WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State militants are raking in money at a remarkable rate, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a Treasury Department official said Thursday. David Cohen, who leads the department’s effort to

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe and was denounced by critics as an illustration of

BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI–  Few will remember that thirty-one years ago today, the United States received its baptism of fire in the Middle East.  On October 23, 1983, at 6:20 on a Sunday morning, a Mercedes truck smashed through the gates of