At least 272 were killed or reported dead. Another 136 were reported wounded or sickened. Militants released a video in which 21 captives, all of them security personnel, were paraded in cages. It is unclear if the men were executed.
At least 145 people were killed and 25 were wounded.
US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf is being mocked and ridiculed by critics in every medium for remarks she made in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews regarding terrorism. She told the host that poor economic conditions are a contributing factor to recruitment for groups such as ISIS, and said “we cannot kill our …
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The War Party is currently desperate for any evidence of Russian aggression in Ukraine. So much so that, as faithful apostle of the Warfare State Senator Jim Inhofe has shown recently, it is willing to embrace fabricated "evidence" to ensure the narrative remains intact. In his argument for arming the Ukrainian government, Inhofe provided pictures …
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At least 72 were killed and three were wounded. In Ramadi, a bomb killed one civilian and wounded three more. Security forces killed four militants. Five sheiks were executed in al-Ghazali after being kidnapped in Qayara. In western Baghdad, a body was found. Another body was found in the east. In Mosul, militants executed a …
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Originally posted at TomDispatch. Yes, they’ve become “the greatest generation” (a phrase that’s always reminded me of an ad line for a soft drink), but they didn’t feel that way at the time. As Susan Faludi pointed out in her classic book Stiffed and as I experienced as a boy, the men who came home …
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On February 16, Gallup released the result of a poll which asked about Americans’ impression of the nation’s top enemies. The takeaway from sources such as the conservative Washington Times was the 16 percent increase in distrust towards Russia. This isn’t so surprising, considering the tensions with Russia, and the general terror (or occasionally delight) …
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You could hear the air in the inflated balloon of Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign leak out rather noisily as he made his debut foreign policy speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. As Dana Milbank ruthlessly pointed out in the Washington Post, the speech "combined his father’s awkward oratory with his brother’s mangled syntax …
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The signs may be subtle, but cracks are appearing in the Islamic State’s “caliphate.” Those cracks will only become wider should the main supply route to Mosul be completely shut down. At least 193 people were killed and 29 more were wounded.
A physical trench cut into the earth south of Baghdad is, ostensibly, to prevent Islamic State militants from reaching the holy city of Karbala. However, Sunni leaders believe the trench serves another purpose, which is to prevent the former Sunni residents from returning to the fertile farmland they called home before the militants invaded Iraq.
