By: Killian Redden | Ma’an News Agency | – – HEBRON (Ma’an) — As the death toll has risen across the occupied Palestinian territory, the southern West Bank city of Hebron has found itself at the center of violence. In just over a month, Israeli forces have killed 10 Palestinians in the sharply divided city. […]
But are they effective? Elite US Forces Deploy to a Record-Shattering 147 Countries in 2015
By Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – They’re some of the best soldiers in the world: highly trained, well equipped, and experts in weapons, intelligence gathering, and battlefield medicine. They study foreign cultures and learn local languages. They’re smart, skillful, wear some very iconic headgear, and their 12-member teams are “capable of […]
Trump On Shutting Down Mosques: Yeah Sure Whatever
By John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, and Elliot Hill | (The Young Turks) | – – “How far would Donald Trump go to protect America from ISIS? Turns out pretty far… John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jayar Jackson, and Elliot Hill (The Lip TV) hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you […]
Ahmadinejad’s Ex-Bodyguard Among Growing Number Of Iranians Killed in Syria
By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/ RL ) | – – A onetime bodyguard for former Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has been killed in Syria while fighting Islamic State (IS) militants, according to Iranian media reports. Abdollah Bagheri Niaraki was killed October 22 while “fighting terrorists” in the suburbs of the northern city of Aleppo, […]
The Intifada, Viral Death, and the Facebook Fallacy
By Julie Poucher Harbin, Editor, | Interview with Rebecca Stein | ISLAMICommentary | – – There are varying explanations for the uptick in violence in Israel-Palestine over the past few days, but one explanation that appears to have caught on with the Israeli government and much Western media, according to Duke University cultural anthropologist Rebecca […]
Russia/Syria: Possibly Unlawful Russian Air Strikes
Human Rights Watch | – – (New York) – At least two air strikes in northern Homs on October 15, 2015, that local residents believed to be Russian, apparently violated the laws of war. The air strikes killed a total of 59 civilians, residents said, including 33 children and a commander of the local armed […]
Jewish Squatter attack on Leader of Rabbis for Human Rights caught on Video
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Jewish settler on Friday attacked the head of the Israeli group Rabbis for Human Rights during a Palestinian olive harvest in the Nablus district, Israeli media reported. Head of the group, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, was with a group of Israeli and internationals activists who had […]
Iraqi Kurds Face Hard Diplomatic Choices Between the US and Russia
By Histyar Qader | (Niqash.org) | – – It is tough for Iraqi Kurdistan to turn down any kind of aid when it comes to fighting the Islamic State. So now the Kurdish are not sure whether to stand with the US or to ask for help from the Russians. The relatively new Russian intervention […]
Mexico’s Patricia Megastorm so strong it broke scale used to measure hurricane intensity
AJ+ | (Video Report | – – “Hurricane Patricia is the strongest ever recorded and headed for Mexico at Category 5 speeds. It’s so strong, it broke the scale used to measure hurricane intensity. Now Mexico is prepping for the worst.” AJ+: “Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Hurricane Ever Recorded, Heads Straight For Mexico”
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