The Pentagon will send 600 additional troops to Iraq to help in the offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS—but it is unclear if they will be backing Shi'ite, Sunni or Kurdish forces.
Protests are reported from more than 30 cities across the world as part of a global day of "Rage for Aleppo" to oppose the siege and bombardment of Syria's largest city.
Two weeks after the Syrian "ceasefire," Aleppo is under intense bombardment and 2 million are without water in the besieged city—portending a massive death toll.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has gone from being a CIA-approved Mujahedeen commander to an officially designated "global terrorist" to a partner with the US-backed Kabul regime.
The 30,000 Muslims who marched against extremism in London were followers of the Ahmadiyya sect—a dissident current in Islam persecuted by the orthodox Sunni.
The glee with which "anti-war" voices have greeted the British parliament's critical report on the Libya intervention betrays unseemly schadenfreude over the post-Qaddafi chaos.
With over a quarter million dead in Syria, the UN Security Council finally called an emergency meeting after the US for the first time bombed Assad regime forces—by accident.
Days after the supposed Syria "ceasefire" took effect, Assad regime and Russian warplanes carried out multiple air-strikes on rebel-held towns, leaving some 20 dead.
The announced new cooperation between imperial rivals the US, Russia and Turkey can only mean a betrayal of the Rojava Kurds and and other democratic forces in Syria.
9-11 conspiracy guru Christopher Bollyn, an open Jew-hater who has appeared on David Duke's radio show, was met by protesters outside his gig at Brooklyn's "progressive" venue.
It is telling that Islam Karimov, the murderous dictator of Uzbekistan, is hailed upon his death as an ally in the war on terrorism by both Washington and Moscow.
The Turkish intervention in northern Syria has set off open war between Free Syrian Army factions and the Rojava Kurds—which only serves the interests of ISIS and Assad.
