After 2005 he became a key figure on another border, the Iraqi one. As reported by Limes, the Italian journal of geopolitics: “From there, according to various converging sources, he took over the task of organising the journeys of Syrian “jihadist” militias to Iraq in an anti-American ...
Asylum is a type of protection that allows a migrant to stay in the U..S. and have a path to American citizenship. To qualify for asylum, someone has to demonstrate fear of persecution back home due to a fairly specific set of criteria: race, religion, na...
Again, Italian public opinion, upon the release of hostages, always tends toward the vicious and nasty when a young woman is concerned and where the crimes committed against her take place in a country where Islam is the dominant or state religion, particularly if there are terrorist organisation...
Who are the Iraqi Kurds? What is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? What type of government does Kuwait have? How is the Arabian Sea beneficial for Pakistan? What sea is located south of the Indus River Valley? What is Iran's primary natural resource export? What area is located between the ...
Steve Kroft: But you've said that we are not going to be the Shiite air force. We're not going to be the Kurdistan air force. We're not going to be the Iraqi air force. But in effect, with the allies, that's what we have become. We have become the Iraqi air force. ...
The Jews of Kurdistan largely spoke Aramaic and Kurdish dialects, in particular the Kurmanji dialect in Iraqi Kurdistan (and are probably doing their part in Mossad and/or Shin Bet, and Israeli military intelligence among the Kurds as well, because many still speak Kurdish and Aramaic). ...
ignite those problems faced by his father whose stifling of dissent spurred Islamist insurgency. In June 2004, Ghalioun, who remains an active observer of the Syrian opposition from his exile in Paris, wrote, "Lack of reform is driving the renaissance of religion in an era of secularism."[21...
Small wonder, then, that instead of rising up to welcome the invaders, as the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had predicted, Iraqi nationalism has been strengthened and people have been galvanised into resistance. As the number of civilian deaths grows, the more the Iraqis will feel they ...
BECAUSE WE HAD COMMITTED OURSELVES TO WORK FOR FREEDOM, WE ALREADY FEEL BETTER. WE ARE NO LONGER SLAVES, WE WERE NOW FREEDOM FIGHTERS FIGHTING FOR OUR PEOPLE - Theophilus Mzokuma
It’s is like there are no nearby slopes in the Middle East where it could have been launched from. Half of Baghdad airport is a giant American base, and Soleimani’s car skirted the wall. The Iraqi Parliament did not “vote for the ousting of the Americans.” It met to approve a ...