WASHINGTON — Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop after death threats from terrorist called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) whom Obama has been […]
by KATIE GORKA: Iraq’s Christian leaders have just made a desperate cry for help. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Catholic church, has issued an appeal “to all who have a living conscience in Iraq and all the world. The situation for Iraq’s Christians has been steadily deteriorating ever since the 2003 invasion, in […]
(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John Kerry pushed back Sunday at the notion that U.S. intervention to remove dictators in Iraq and Libya stoked terrorism and sectarianism, and is consequently to blame for the current crises in those countries. While briefing media in Cairo after talks with Egypt’s new leadership, Kerry was told that many […]
With the rapid advance in Iraq of the deadly terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), political leaders and policy analysts are concerned not only with regional security in the Middle East but with new threats to America’s national security. In Part 1 of this interview, The Heritage Foundation’s expert […]
Motorists know that if a fire breaks out at a petrol station, you cannot put it out by spraying it with gasoline. But according to recent reports, it seems the American president isn’t that smart. On Friday we learned that Obama is asking Congress for $500 million for the so-called Syrian rebels. Apparently he does […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. Starved of attention, Palestinian detainees ended their 63-day hunger strike. Palestinian sources told the Times of Israel that the hunger strikers were “primarily motivated by a realization that the issue had faded from the public agenda — presumably because of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens and ensuing IDF crackdown.” 2. As Iraq […]
By Alan Caruba : I know it’s a terrible thing to say, but sometimes I miss Saddam Hussein. Yes, he was a cruel despot. Between September 1980 and July 1988 he pursued an eight-year war against Iran that killed an estimated combined million troops on both sides and achieved nothing. He had ruled from 1979 until 2003 when […]
John MC Cain and Obama have been supporting the wrong groups in the middle east, terrorist. Now these same terrorist are in Iraq, Obama and McCain are on the wrong side. On Memorial Day in 2013, John McCain went on a secret trip to Syria to meet with the rebels he and Obama supported who were […]
Some Christian families from Mosul have sought refuge in St Matthew’s Monastery, writes Richard Spencer. Others vow to take a stand against the Islamists – whatever the cost. Captain Firaz Jacob knows he may well be mounting a last stand at the frontiers of the Christian settlement of Bartella on the outskirts of Mosul. Less […]
Allegations are mounting that the US trained Syrian rebels to fight against Assad only to see them later join ISIS and turn against the US-backed Iraqi Army. [youtube o0v7FRcBPhE nolink] Special note: the above Fox News video, from 2013, references the existence of a US-led training program in Jordan aimed at strengthening the Syrian opposition […]
