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U.S. Launches Air Strikes in Iraq In Response to Hezbollah Attack on Military Base | National Review
Joe Biden ordered retaliatory air strikes on three sites in Iraq on Monday after terrorists launched a drone attack on a U.S. military base, wounding three Americans.
History | History
Massacre of Iraqi Jews Remembered on 81st Anniversary
Young Iraqi Jews who fled to pre-state Israel following the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Baghdad. Photo: Moshe Baruch Jewish groups …
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PODCAST: Putin Recruits Islamofascist Mercenaries; The Atlantic Focuses on Nuclear War's Effect on the Climate
While Russian despot Vladimir Putin continues to target civilians in his unprovoked war in Ukraine, the fascist-Left darling publication The Atlantic features an article panicking about how a nuclear war would be harmful to the climate. Honestly, you can
Politics | Media Bias
New York Times Warps History of Iraqi Jewry
The headquarters of The New York Times. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A New York Times dispatch from Baghdad reports on reaction …
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Iraq Government Issues Arrest Warrants For Iraqi Speakers Who Championed Peace With Israel
As the number of Arab nations in the Middle East deciding to make peace with Israel has escalated due to the Trump administration’s efforts, the Iraqi government is showing they have no desire for peace, issuing warrants for the arrest of arresting two speakers at a conference who urged Iraq to make peace with the Jewish state and threatening the roughly 300 participants at the conference.
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ISIS Threat Beyond Syria, Iraq Causes Concern
The Islamic State terrorist group is no longer in control of large swaths of land in Syria and Iraq, but just like al Qaeda in the...
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US Executes Airstrikes Against Facilities in Syria Used by Iran-Backed Militia
The United States launched airstrikes in Syria Thursday in retaliation for rocket attacks on US assets in Iraq earlier in the month...
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Elder Of Ziyon - Even antisemitic media in Iraq is discussing the benefits of normalization with Israel
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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US GI Jeffrey Wheat: Iraq to Israel
https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.179/p5t.0ff.myftpupload.com/shows/jeffery%20wheat.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSS | More US GI medic Jeffrey Wheat shares his insights on Iraq and his reasons for coming to Israel. H
Politics | Politics
Inside the Plot by Iran’s Soleimani to Attack US Forces in Iraq
Iranian demonstrators chant slogans during a protest against the killing of the Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite …
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Israel Attacked Iraqi Bases Holding Ballistic Missiles From Iran in Mid-July, Report Says
The state of Israel, now waiting until Iran implants ballistic missiles close enough to target the Jewish state, struck two Iraqi bases that stored ballistic missiles and housed Iranian forces in mid-July, according to
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Ex-Miss Iraq Sarah Idan Blasts Antisemitism, 'Biased' Media Coverage Against Israel
Ex-Miss Iraq Sarah Idan Blasts Antisemitism, ‘Biased’ Media Coverage Against Israel Shiryn Ghermezian Algemeiner News Service Former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan criticized media bias against Israel and antisemitism taught in Muslim countries while speaking a
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Donald Trump: 'Time to Start Coming Home' from 'Endless Wars'
President Donald Trump reasserted his promise on Friday to withdraw the United States from conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria.
Politics | Trump Politics
Statement from President Donald J. Trump on Standing with Saudi Arabia | The White House
America First! The world is a very dangerous place! The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen, trying to destabilize Iraq’s fragile attempt at democracy, supporting the terror group Hezbollah
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Israel offers aid to Iran and Iraq in earthquake aftermath
Gripe not with Iranian and Iraqi peoples, but with their governments, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says.
News | The News
Wait, Obama DOES Have a Strategy to Defeat ISIS: 450 Troops | Truth Revolt
President Obama began the week saying, "We don't yet have a complete strategy" against ISIS. All he could say was that the Pentagon is working on a plan. That plan has suddenly become available to share how the White House plans to deal with the
News | The News
NY Times Just Blasted Out of Existence Biggest Myth About George W. Bush & Iraq War
It wasn’t the only justification for the Iraq War, but it certainly has often been held up as the biggest. Although it has been claimed before that chemical weapons had been found in Post-Hussein Iraq, due to new documents uncovered by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the New York Times is now reporting it in a piece, “The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons.”
Politics | Interesting Links
Why America Invaded Iraq - Prager University
Why did America invade Iraq in 2003? Was it for oil? Or was it because Saddam Hussein was a mass-murdering dictator who harbored terrorists and threatened the region with Weapons of Mass Destruction? If it was the former, wouldn't it have been a lot easie
Politics | Politics
What is George W. Bush's only regret over invading Iraq?
From Yahoo News: Invading Iraq was the right decision, but former President George W. Bush does have one regret, he told CBS's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, in a wide-ranging interview Sunday that touched on brother Jeb Bush's potential presidential r
Politics | From CNN
ISIS subjects Yazidi women to 'rape, sex slavery' - CNN.com
ISIS is brazen about enslaving Yazidi women. One teen describes how her dreams of becoming a doctor lie in ruins after her brutal treatment.
Politics | Op-Ed
Iraq's WMD: The Shameless New York Times Moves the Goalposts - Larry Elder
Contrary to the expectations of all 16 of our U.S. intelligence agencies, the "weapons hunters" sent to Iraq by President George W. Bush found no "stockpiles" of WMD..10/23/2014 7:13:05AM EST.
Politics | From the HuffPost
What Happened When Wisconsin Man Jordan Matson Decided To Take On ISIS
DERIKE, Syria (RNS) Like many Americans, Jordan Matson is outraged by the brutality of the Islamic State. But unlike virtually every other American, he decided to take on the militants head-on. Now, the 28-year-old Racine, Wis., man is recovering ...
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'Where Is the World?': 'Large-Scale Massacre' Looms as ISIS Closes In on Kobani
Despite recent airstrikes from the United States and its allies along the strategic Syrian border city of Kobani, ISIS fighters are still on the advance and could be mere hours away from committing a
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In Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk - NYTimes.com
Antiquities guardians around the world are asking themselves if it’s better to raise the alarm about what’s in harm’s way — or keep quiet to avoid the militants’ gaze?
Politics | Woke Insanity
Exclusive: America’s Allies Almost Bombed in Syrian Airstrikes - The Daily Beast
The White House says it wants to work with Syria’s moderate rebels. But warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition came awfully close to striking one of their HQs.
Politics | Woke Insanity
Iraqi pilots dropped food, water and ammunition on Islamic State by mistake - Washington Times
Members of Islamic State recently received an unexpected surprise from the Iraqi military's inexperienced pilots: an airdrop of food, water and ammunition.
News | Fun With Islam
Fears growing for Yazidi women held by Isis | Mail Online
Witnesses in the town of Sinjar say Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State fighters separated the younger women from the rest of the local population and most were shunted off in buses or trucks.
News | Fun With Islam
Yazidis tormented by fears for women and girls kidnapped by Isis jihadis
Despair for one Yazidi father as he is told that his daughter will be sold as a slave by Islamists who rampaged through Sinjar • Who are the Yazidis?
Politics | Politics
Iraq militants changing tactics, complicating US airstrike mission
Islamic militant forces in northern Iraq appear to be shifting tactics in the face of the newly launched U.S. airstrike campaign, Defense officials say, posing a new challenge to the Obama administration as it seeks to at least slow the terrorists’ adva
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Yazidi boy recovering from surgery in Israel, father worried about family in Iraq
Save a Child’s Heart organization operated on the 17-month-old boy at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.
News | The News
Iraqi Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst
Encircled by extremists with no food or water, children have begun to die.
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▶ Iraqi Yazidi MP Breaks Down in Parliament: ISIL is Exterminating my People
Iraqi Kurdish MP from the ancient Yazidi faith, Vian Dakhil, gave a very emotional appeal in the Iraqi Parliament while in tears to rescue the Yazidis of Ira...
Politics | Corruption
U.S. sells Iraq 5000 Hellfire missiles to “help it in war against jihadists”
“The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said that ‘the U.S. State Department agreed to sell Iraq five thousand Hellfire missiles to help it in the war against Jihadists.’” What’s that you say, US Defense Security Cooperation Agency?
Politics | Corruption
Syria jihadists now using Humvees seized in Iraq
Jihadists fighting in Syria's war put to use for the first time on Sunday American-made Humvees that they seized during a lightning offensive in Iraq this month, a monitor said. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, used the armoured veh
Politics | Politics
'More Extreme Than Al Qaeda'? How ISIS Compares to Other Terror Groups - NBC News
The leader of the Islamist fighters sweeping across northern Iraq has been called the heir apparent to Osama bin Laden. But there are big differences between...
Politics | Op-Ed
The Elder Statement: FLASHBACK: Did GWBush 'Squander' The 9-11 Unanimity? By Larry Elder --Even Bill Maher was pulling for Iraq
Sept. 11 unified America. But President George W. Bush "squandered" this shared sense of purpose. We still hear this drivel, mostly from the left, 10 years after the terror attacks. But how did Bush blow this alleged consensus, this shared sense of purpose presumably expected to last, well, forever?