Several mosques have been vandalised and a number of suspected hate crimes targeting Muslims carried out after dozens of United States governors announced they would not accept Syrian refugees in their states. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a civil rights organisation, said on Monday that it has documented[…]
The US military launched an air strike in Syria targeting ISIL fighter Mohammed Emwazi – better known as “Jihadi John” – who participated in the beheading videos of two American journalists and the killing of several other captives. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the air strike carried out on[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday that he remained committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as they sought to mend ties strained by acrimony over Middle East diplomacy and Iran. Meeting Obama for the first time since the signing of the[…]
After years of pulling back from the Middle East, the Obama administration’s new plan to use elite American ground troops to combat ISIL is meeting with scepticism among analysts and US lawmakers. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced on Tuesday the US may soon intensify air strikes against the Islamic[…]
The US is considering escalating its military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Iraq and Syria, a US official said. The new policy would mean additional air strikes and even “direct action” on the ground, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday,[…]
This is the final article in a series focusing on BDS movements around the world. In 1948, Israel was founded as a Jewish state on land ethnically cleansed of its indigenous Palestinian population. As a result, most Palestinians became refugees and to this day are not allowed by Israel to[…]
One member of a U.S. special operations force was killed during an overnight mission to rescue hostages held by Islamic State radicals in northern Iraq, the first American to die in ground combat with the radical group, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Sixty-nine hostages were rescued in the action, which[…]
Malaysia has arrested a man on charges of hacking into the personal information of more than a thousand U.S. security officials and handing the database to the Islamic State group in Syria so it could target the individuals. The 20-year-old from Kosovo, who entered Malaysia in August 2014 to study[…]
President Barack Obama will on Thursday announce a reversal of policy in Afghanistan, slowing plans to draw down U.S. troops and instead maintain a force of 9,800 through most of 2016, senior administration officials said. His decision prolongs the U.S. role in that country’s 14-year-old war and ensures he hands[…]
The deadly air strike that hit a hospital in the Afghan provincial capital of Kunduz was a mistake, the US commander of international forces in Afghanistan said. US Army General John Campbell said in a testimony on Tuesday to the Senate Armed Services Committee that the decision to carry out[…]
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