Tag: ISIS
Media bury story that U.S. troops may have fired into crowd after Kabul Airport suicide bomb attack
[The New York Times, Consortium News] “It appears in the 29th paragraph of a 39-paragraph New York Times story on Saturday about the…
US troop “withdrawal” from Afghanistan: CIA seeks to relocate bases in neighbouring countries, drone war will continue
[The New York Times] “The rapid U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan is creating intense pressure on the C.I.A. to find new ways…
Top US Diplomat: Working with terrorists in Syria would be “wise”, al-Jolani is “least bad option”
[PBS] “Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, a former leader of an Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, is one of the most wanted…
Biden will withdraw 2,500 troops from Afghanistan but over 18,000 Pentagon contractors and special operatives to remain
[CovertAction Magazine] “On Wednesday April 14th, President Joe Biden announced that he would end the U.S.’s longest war and withdraw U.S….
New ISIS leader was a US prison informant in Iraq
[The Washington Post] “In confidential interrogation reports, Iraqi detainee M060108-01 is depicted as a model prisoner, “cooperative” with his American…
Syrian terrorist al-Jolani’s organization is “an asset” to America’s strategy in Idlib
[PBS] “Over most of two decades, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s life has been a roadmap of Islamist militancy in Iraq and…
Former LtCol Daniel Davis repeats his 2020 call for a full withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq and Syria
[Insider] “The reason troops are in Iraq at all today is because President Barack Obama sent them to help Baghdad fend off…
Iraqi PM says Trump asked him to mediate with Iran then assassinated his guest, emissary Qasem Soleimani
[Liberation News] “The acting Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi […] revealed that Soleimani had traveled to Baghdad to deliver a…
U.S. May Violate International Laws Against Pillage If It Takes Syrian Oil
[NPR] “President Trump has executed a policy U-turn on Syria. He’s now tasking U.S. forces that he’d promised to withdraw…
U.S. and Afghan Government Forces Killed More Civilians Than Taliban Did, U.N. Report Finds
[The New York Times] “For the first time since the United Nations began documenting civilian casualties in Afghanistan a decade…
Israel secretly armed and funded Syrian rebels
[Foreign Policy] “Israel secretly armed and funded at least 12 rebel groups in southern Syria that helped prevent Iran-backed fighters…
John Kerry: US let ISIS rise in Syria to overthrow Assad
[Mondoweiss] “Last fall Secretary of State Kerry met privately with anti-Assad Syrian activists at the U.N. The meeting was secretly…
Spain: Ex-hitman for state-sponsored anti-ETA death squad arrested for ISIS plot
[The Irish Times] “A former hitman for Spain’s infamous 1980s state-sponsored death squads has been arrested on suspicion of planning…
Decades of Hillary Clinton controversies exposed: LaFarge, Libya, Syria, terrorism and the presidential nomination
[Observer] “One of the most troubling revelations exposed by Wikileaks has been completely ignored by mainstream media. On August 1, Wikileaks shared…
How Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states turned once-tolerant Kosovo into fertile ground for ISIS and Wahhabi ideology
[The New York Times] “Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds…
Operation Timber Sycamore: Saudis provide money and arms, U.S. trains Syrian rebels
[The New York Times] “When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria’s embattled rebels in 2013, the spy…
John Bolton: defeating ISIS in Syria is not desirable, instead the US should create an oil producer Sunni state and an independent Kurdistan
[The New York Times] “Today’s reality is that Iraq and Syria as we have known them are gone. The Islamic…
How the US and UK fuelled the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq
[The Guardian] “On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it…
2012 Defense Intelligence Agency document: West will facilitate rise of Islamic State to isolate Syrian regime
[Levant Report] “On Monday, May 18, the conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch published a selection of formerly classified documents…
Obama Administration Knew about Benghazi Terror Attack Plans, Arms Shipments to Syria, Rise of ISIS
[Judicial Watch] “Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained more than 100 pages of previously classified “Secret” documents from the Department of…
British girls were helped into Syria by spy from U.S.-led coalition
[REUTERS] “A spy who worked for a country in the U.S.-led coalition that is fighting Islamic State had helped three…
VP Biden: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE armed and funded Al Qaeda in Iraq (now ISIS) and Al Nusra
[The Daily Beast] “Vice President Joe Biden is apologizing again for speaking the truth.” ““My constant cry was that our…
Obama and senior officials know that arms sent to ‘moderate rebels’ go to Jihadists in Syria
[The New York Times] “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups…
