Reuters International This content was published on October 18, 2017 BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Kurdish Peshmerga forces have retreated to positions they held in northern Iraq in June 2014 in response to an Iraqi army advance into the region after a Kurdish independence referendum rejected by Baghdad, a senior Iraqi commander […]
October 17, 2017 5:43 PMOct 17, 2017 – 17:43 PARIS (Reuters) – French anti-terrorist police have arrested 10 far-right militants, a court official said on Tuesday. The official declined to detail why the men were arrested, but TV station M6 said that the 10 were suspected of planning attacks on […]
onreligion.co.uk: The link between terrorism and hate crime is clear – apparently. An article in The Independent quoted Fiyaz Mughal of Faith Matters that “the biggest driver of anti-Muslim hate is terrorist attacks – the research is very clear here” (some more nuance to these views was given later through […]
The Independent Online A member of the US-backed Iraqi security forces stands guard at a shrine destroyed by air strikes in east Mosul, Iraq, on 19 April 2017 REUTERS The Pentagon has dismissed Russian allegations that the US is only “pretending” to fight Isis in Iraq as a “ridiculous” Russian […]
Some Isis fighters have been allowed to leave, but there will apparently be no forgiveness for the foreign fighters in Raqqa – it seems they will have to fight and die Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices SDF forces are making gains in pushing the last Isis fighters out of […]
It’s actually a rather droll room – dark, heavy panelling, dull, tall windows, a 1930s monster building – the doors and windows far taller than a man or woman. It lacks imagination. I can think of a few other modern day fuehrers who might feel at home here The […]