"I have my heart in countries like Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Iran, Lebanon — those countries that everybody is scared to go to," Binsky says. "And [my viewers] think that it's only a war zone, and they think it's so unsafe. But when you go ...
When she was just a baby, her parents fled their comfortable lives in Tehran as Iran sped into revolution and war with Iraq. The family landed in Los Angeles, where they were neither fully part of mainstream '80s Valley culture nor the glitzy Persian diaspora of "Tehrangeles." Later, as...
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an eye on your every move. As I mentioned inmy first post on North Korea, I was able to walk away from the group many times. Never was I chased after and told to turn around. So while it is a highly controlled experience, you are allowed a sliver of freedom, enough to allow you...
ISIS has “warned it will try to kill more Japanese,” he said. The Islamic extremist group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, has killed some of the other international hostages it has held, including two American journalists. ...
and the prairie begins to rise to the mountains. I visited here in 2009 as the highly charged political debate engulfing our country seemed to paralyze our nation. Yes, 9/11 happened in 2001, and the Iraq war was rattling our national psyche. I longed for peace in a garden as only natu...
Today, the Detroit metro area is home to between 121,000 and 160,000 Chaldeans—the largest concentration outside of Iraq—and remains one of the best places to try flavorful Chaldean dishes, which are seasoned with spices like cumin and cardamom and include kofta and kebab (skewered and ...
As reported by the Israeli newspaperMa’ariv, Bibi said, “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.” According to the newspaper account, Netanyahu then said that these events “swung American public opinion...
” News flash, all attacks by terrorists are terrorism – and often, the victims happen to be Muslim. If you really want to compare death tolls and who’s responsible for what, maybe it’s time to count the dead bodies in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the daily drone strike victims in the...
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