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Tag Archives: iraqi
New US hostage policy will help families work with gov’t, say negotiators
A former FBI hostage negotiator who dealt with Islamist terrorists holding Americans for ransom said President Obama’s new strategy for handling such cases is a “step in the right direction” that clears the way for families and the government to…
Weather Disaster; FIFA Corruption Busts
Motorists are stranded along I-45 along North Main in Houston after storms flooded the area, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Overnight heavy rains caused flooding closing some portions of major highways in the Houston area. (Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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British pop stars team with Iraqi clergy to condemn ISIS in song
Hal St John of Ooberfuse and Archbishop Warda in the We Are One video . (Screengrab)
A British pop band and an Iraqi Christian leader have teamed up for an emotional music video dedicated to thousands of refugees forced to…
DARPA’s Squad X Core brings tech innovations to infantry squads
DARPA’s new Squad X Core Technologies (SXCT) program aims to help dismounted infantry squads continue to achieve and maintain overwhelming tactical superiority over potential adversaries. (DARPA)
Military ‘X-Men’
Squad X Core will take the amazing advanced capabilities in U.S. military…
The good news that nobody knows
Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters leave the outskirts of Suruc, Turkey, towards the Turkey-Syria border, on the way to the Syrian city of Kobani, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. The 10 peshmerga fighters from Iraq who entered the embattled northern Syrian town…
ISIS threat: What Team Obama doesn’t want you to know
The vaunted Obama “National Security Team” tells us their “broad-based coalition” is “succeeding” against the savages who variously describe themselves as ISIS, ISIL, IS or “The Caliphate.” That’s according to White House spokesman Josh Earnest in press briefings on October…
ISIS threat: Operation ‘Inherent Resolve’ is a flop. Time to arm the Kurds
President Obama met with the anti-ISIS coalition’s defense ministers at Andrews Air Force Base this week. Afterward, he said the 21 member states agreed that they’re going to defeat ISIS. It sounded great. But it was a fairy tale.
The…
Obama Flubs Iraq
It has been a rough week in Iraq.
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, has stormed into Fallujah, Mosul, and Tikrit in Iraq’s Sunni north, and is eager to strike at Baghdad.
In a historic move, Kurdish…
Obama Is Surrendering The Middle East To Terrorists
In his commencement address at West Point last week, President Obama got one thing right: “For the foreseeable future, the most direct threat to America at home and abroad remains terrorism.”
I agree.
While I have said and written many…
Obama Speech Offers Opportunity for Healing
After seven long years of war, tens of thousands of American casualties, and hundreds of billions of dollars, President Obama last night announced the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. The president had promised to end combat operations…
