Hillary Group: Shes Not Rich, Shes You
The pro-Hillary Clinton group Correct The Record will put out a memo to media outlets firing back what the group calls ���Karl Rove style��� attacks on the former Secretary of States ���deep connection with the middle class.��� And in it, Correct The Record.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/17/2015 | Gates of Vienna
According to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the most dangerous leaders of the Islamic State are ���Swedes���. Meanwhile, the UN. US Teeters on Brink of Economic Collapse Due to Dollar Bubble ��� Ron Paul. USA. �� America.. Iraqi special forces maintained control of the provincial capital, Ramadi, in Iraqs western Anbar province Friday, after Islamic State militants continued to pound the western city with bombings, causing fearful residents to flee their homes.
Iraqs Anbar in total collapse, on brink of falling to Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants overran one of the last remaining districts held by government forces in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday and besieged a key army base on the edge of the western provincial capital, security sources said.
Iraq Continues Post-Saddam Slide to Sectarian Civil War
Also Monday, an al-Qaida front group in Iraq [the Islamic State of Iraq] claimed responsibility for a November bombing inside Baghdads Green Zone, a heavily protected area in the center of the Iraqi capital... Bombs kill 20 and wound 80 across Iraq (Reuters, July 22, 2012) ��� Car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Iraqi city of Najaf killed a total of 20 people on Sunday and wounded 80, police and hospital sources said, in one of the most violent days of��.
Isis jihadis using captured arms and troop carriers from US.
The study by the London-based Conflict Armament Research consultancy found that Islamic State (Isis) militants had access to large numbers of US weapons, which they were shifting to key battlefields. The report drew. Photograph: Reuters. The publication of the arms report came as the White House was finalising its plan on Monday for a sustained confrontation with Isis that could involve extending air strikes against the jihadis in Iraq to their strongholds in Syria.
The Great Wall of Ukraine
Never mind that Ukraine is on the brink of default, and that the estimated cost of the wall would be ���100 million , more than 10 times Ukraines current defense budget. Or, that the rebels���and Russia for that matter���would potentially attack those.
NRA Ducks Gun Fight Out West
Washington State is on the verge of passing new gun control legislation.. ���The gun prohibition movement has lucked out by having people like Michael Bloomberg���hes a devoted anti-gunner���and in Washington State weve got a handful of billionaires.
A Darker, Affleck-Free Daredevil
Both strengthened and hampered by their twisted pasts and impulses, theyre heroes on the verge of becoming antiheroes. VINCENT DONOFRIO as WILSON FISK in the Netflix Original Series ���Marvels Daredevil��� BARRY WETCHER. Factor in that both .
How the Sons of Iraq Stabilized Iraq :: Middle East Quarterly
David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. and coalition forces commander in Iraq, reported a dramatic reduction in violence levels and civilian deaths from fifteen months before when Iraq seemed on the brink of civil war.. wake of the invasion, the main instigator was the minority Arab Sunni community, about 20 percent of the total population, which had dominated Iraqi politics for centuries and which resented its exclusion from the new state structures established by the victorious powers.
The Life and Death of a U.N. Hero - The Daily Beast
���When he was 3 years old, he could sing songs in four languages,��� says the wistful 90-year-old mother of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N.s special representative to Iraq who was killed by a suicide bomber from al Qaeda in August 2003. Sergio, a. Called, aptly, Sergio, the film teeters on the brink of hagiography.. The chairman of the Anbar Provincial Council, Sabah Karhut, told the paper Friday that Ramadi ���has fallen, militarily��� to the Islamic State offensive.
ISIS fighter pilots trained on captured MiGs by Saddam Husseins ex-air.
The reported flights are believed to be the first time the militant group has taken to the air and raises the possibility of attacks on British, US and French targets in neighbouring Iraq.. Twitter accounts linked to ISIS, also known as ISIL and.
Worldview: Sooner rather than later, US will have to confront.
Since the gruesome slaughter of James Foley, U.S. officials are debating whether the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) can be contained or must be rolled back in the near term. President Obama appears. And he is betting that the collapsed Iraqi security forces can be revived. In the best of all possible. The critical town of Ramadi, in Anbar province, is on the verge of falling to ISIS, which would give it near total control of the Sunni areas of Iraq. And Obama must��.
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U.S. military officials insisted Friday that ISIS was on the ���defensive������even as the self-proclaimed Islamic State was taking over the key Iraqi city of Ramadi. Worse than that, the Pentagon repeatedly asserted that its��.
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U.S. military officials insisted Friday that ISIS was on the ���defensive������even as the self-proclaimed Islamic State was taking over the key Iraqi city of Ramadi. Worse than that, the Pentagon repeatedly asserted that its��.
The Economy Is A Complete Illusion And Its Ready To.
During 2013, sales to the domestic market fell 43% compared with 2012, falling to a total of 2,750 from the 4,793 sold during 2012. Overseas sales Sales to the overseas market fell 34% in December compared with December��.
Leslie H. Gelb: North Korea, U.S. Headed to Brink of War.
U.S. military officials insisted Friday that ISIS was on the ���defensive������even as the self-proclaimed Islamic State was taking over the key Iraqi city of Ramadi. Worse than that, the Pentagon repeatedly asserted that its��.
FPs Situation Report: IS turned back in Kobani; Turkey opens bases to U.S..
Thanks to the Kurds and U.S. airstrikes, the Islamic State has been turned back in Kobani. Late last week, Kobani appeared to be on the verge of falling. Now, after a series of American airstrikes and with an assist from the Kurdish peshmerga, IS has.
12 Years Later, We Know the Winner in Iraq: Iran
Unlike in Vietnam, Washington did go back, quickly turning a humanitarian gesture in August 2014 to save the Yazidi people from destruction at the hands of the Islamic State into a full-scale bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq. A coalition. Twenty.
Intifada 3.0: Growing Unrest and a Plot to Kill an Israeli Minister
Lieberman recently told the German Foreign Minister that Israel ���wont accept any limitations��� on building Jewish neighborhoods in the Palestinian area of east Jerusalem, which Palestinians still hope to make the capital of their state.. A struggle.
US trains Iraqi forces as battle for Tikrit continues
The Iraqi military has struggled to recover from its collapse in June when the Islamic State group captured countrys second-largest city, Mosul, and swept over much of northern Iraq. In the face of the advance, commanders disappeared. Pleas for more .
Christine Lagarde Named New IMF Chief - The Daily Beast
She earned the respect of peers with her lucid calm through overnight sessions as she helped negotiate the European banking system back from the brink of collapse in the fall of 2008. Still, her heroics did take some. U.S. military officials insisted Friday that ISIS was on the ���defensive������even as the self-proclaimed Islamic State was taking over the key Iraqi city of Ramadi. Worse than that, the.. Lucas Jackson/Reuters,�� Lucas Jackson / Reuters. Irwin Redlener.
US quietly expanding intelligence presence in war-torn Iraq.
Many of the conversations in these meetings are believed to center on the activities of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Sunni militant group that has been ideologically aligned with al-Qaeda for most of its existence.. the predominantly Shiite country appears to be on the brink of total collapse, four months after the Shiite-controlled government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared war against Sunni militants, including ISIL, in Iraqs Anbar province.
Isis jihadis using captured arms and troop carriers from US and Saudis
Using such vehicles, Isis fended off assaults on Sunday in far the western Anbar province by Iraqi forces, backed by fighter jets. US jets again attacked Isis positions near the Haditha dam, the second one of Iraqs two most important waterways, which.
InReview: Iraqs Continued Conflict | LDESP
Reuters reports, ���Iraqis Vote as Violence Grips a Divided Country���: ���Since the last. He says he is the only politician with enough strength to battle insurgents; his opponents say his bullying of his political enemies has brought Iraq to the verge of collapse. The past year has. The disenfranchisement of Iraqs Arab Sunnis; the rising threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS); and the activation of Baathist groups collectively discourage electoral participation.
FPs Situation Report: U.S. and Arab partners bomb Islamic State targets.
If the survivors accounts are correct, it would make Sunday the most disastrous day for the Iraqi army since several divisions collapsed in the wake of the Islamic States capture of the northern city of Mosul amid its cross-country sweep in June.
Where Is Our Charlie Hebdo? Americans Dont Know Real Satire
At the same time he claimed ++kinship as a satirist with the slaughtered staff of Charlie Hebdo++ [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/09/bill-maher-doubles-down-on-islam-terrorists-and-the-mainstream-share-a-lot-of-these-bad-ideas.html].
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He grew up in Mississippi, and he throws his home state into the conversation from time to time. ���Im the only gay.. In my older age, Ive learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy. Ive learned. Still, hes on the verge of his first serious relationship in a while. ���I dont... U.S. military officials insisted Friday that ISIS was on the ���defensive������even as the self-proclaimed Islamic State was taking over the key Iraqi city of Ramadi.
ISIS Has a Bigger Coalition Than We Do
As President Obama met Tuesday with the defense ministers of 21 nations to strategize against ISIS, the terror state in the making extended its murder spree with jihadis from that many countries and more. The same way that the fight for the Spanish.
Iraq | Wednesday-Night
Iraqi Government and Kurds Reach Deal to Share Oil Revenues (NYT) The agreement, which could unite Iraq against the Islamic State, covers the sharing of oil revenues with the autonomous Kurdish region. 30 November
US military launch six air strikes against ISIS targets in Syria
They also confirmed last months killing of Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni, whom local medical sources had described to Reuters at the time as the radical militant groups leader in the northern city of Mosul.. News of the killings, first reported by the.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/14/2015 | Gates of Vienna
In other news, tribal leaders in Iraq say that Anbar province may collapse under the ISIS onslaught within hours. Meanwhile, a camel in.. performed on the body. [That would fall under the rubric of ���too much information.. A pan-Muslim body condemned Saturday the murders of three Muslim students in the United States by a neighbor who espoused anti-religious views, voicing concerns over what it said was increased ���Islamophobia��� in the country. Deah Shaddy��.
US jets attack Isis as Biden apologises to Turkish president for remarks about.
The fall of Kubaisa jeopardises the Ain al-Asad military base, which allows Iraqi forces to send troops and supplies to defend the Haditha dam further west. Also on Saturday, the Pakistani Taliban declared allegiance to Islamic State and ordered.