Telesur | 8 March 2015 Reports that US and British aircraft carrying arms to the Islamic State group – better known as ISIS – have been shot down by Iraqi forces have been met with shock and denial in western countries. Few in the Middle East doubt that Washington is playing a ‘double game’ with its…
Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | March 4, 2015 Abdelhakim Belhadj has reportedly joined forces with the Islamic State, according to the journalist Sara Carter. Belhadj is a former al-Qaeda operative who was a key player in the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi. He worked directly with the U.S. and NATO. Kyle Shideler writes for The Washington…
Hutch News | 8 March 2015 IRBIL, Iraq — A Canadian special forces soldier was killed in a friendly fire incident after he and others ignored an order to stay in their car and showed up to the front line unannounced, a spokesman for Iraq’s Kurdish forces said Sunday. The death Friday of Sgt. Andrew…
FARS News Agency | 7 March 2015 Iraqi Special Forces said they have arrested several ISIL’s foreign military advisors, including American, Israeli and Arab nationals in an operation in Mosul in the Northern parts of the country. The Iraqi forces said they have retrieved four foreign passports, including those that belonged to American and Israeli…
NEO | 7 March 2015 In August of 2013, even as the words came out of US President Barack Obama’s mouth regarding an “impending” US military strike against the Syrian state, the impotence of American foreign policy loomed over him and those who wrote his speech for him like an insurmountable wall. So absurd was…
Al Jazeera | 6 March 2015 With Iran building influence in Iraq, US faces a strategic dilemma as it tries to support fight against ISIL Iraq’s military this week launched its most ambitious offensive yet to roll back the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), moving to recapture the city of Tikrit in an operation…
Michael Krieger Liberty Blitzkrieg | March 5, 2015 This man’s plan in Iraq only led to death, chaos, and the emergence of ISIS In 2002, Benjamin Netanyahu already harbored some extremely strong convictions on how to deal with both Iran and Iraq. Back then, his opinions on how to handle the particular challenges each presented were quite divergent. On the…
Fars News Agency | March 01, 2015 The Iraqi popular forces who shot down a US helicopter carrying weapons for the ISIL forces in Al-Baqdadi region released the photos of the shot down chopper through the Internet. A group of Iraqi popular forces known as Al-Hashad Al-Shabi shot down the US Army helicopter that was carrying…
Otago Daily Times | 11 Feb 2015 The brutality of Islamic State is nothing more than a mirror to our own deep-seated violence in the region, writes Richard Jackson. The latest atrocity by Islamic State forces in Iraq in which a captured Jordanian pilot was burned to death has provoked an understandable wave of commentary.…
Stuff | 1 March 2015 Secret death panel planned Families of soldiers killed in the line of duty fear the truth behind battlefield deaths could be covered up under controversial laws being considered. The new law is being debated as Kiwi troops prepare to depart for Iraq to join the fight against Islamic State. Under…