Out of my four articles this week, I found the one on the Yazidi slaves the most interesting. The Yazidi group is a minority that recide in northern Iraq. In 2014, ISIS overran the Sinjar area, where many of the Yazidi group resided in. Overall, I am glad that the 36 of the survivors have been rescued and set free… Read more »
With the prospect looming of a Middle East peace initiative by a new US administration more sympathetic to Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to turn the screw on Hamas, which has kept Gaza out of his control for a decade. Abbas’s Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday told Israel it would no longer pay for the electricity Israel… Read more »
At least 352 civilians have been killed in U.S.-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday. The Combined Joint Task Force, in its monthly assessment of civilian casualties from the U.S. coalition’s operations against the militant group, said it was still assessing 42… Read more »
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has officially come out accusing Syria for the Sarin attack. Environmental and blood samples are showing that the attack was perpetrated by the Syrian regime. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, Has stated that the only way to establish the truth is to conduct an impartial international investigation.
liberianobserver.com Cewhy Kwanue Shelling and rocket fire on a United Nations camp in Mali’s troubled town of Timbuktu killed a member of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), Corporal Sheriff Ousma, and also wounded nine others, the United Nations Mission said last evening. Ousma was a signal soldier assigned with the 23rd Infantry Brigade.
the star.com KUALA LUMPUR Bahrain will set up an embassy in Malaysia to strengthen ties between the two countries. A Malaysia-Bahrain High Joint Commission co-chaired by the two nations’ foreign ministers will also be set up to serve as an umbrella framework for this bilateral cooperation. Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the historic state visit to Malaysia by the King… Read more »
France 24 New Wires Hundreds of frightened Syrian evacuees were on the move again Friday after being blocked for 48 hours at a transit point where a bomber killed dozens of their fellow townspeople, a monitor said.
France 24 New Wires France’s foreign minister said Wednesday that chemical analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria early April “bears the signature” of President Bashar Assad’s government and shows it was responsible for the deadly assault.
At least 95 Syrian opposition fighters and civilians have been killed during infighting in a rebel-held district in the suburbs of Damascus, according to a monitor. In the third day of clashes, the infighting between Jaish al-Islam group against al-Rahman Corps and the al-Qaeda-linked Levant Liberation Committee (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) has killed at least 95 people in Eastern Ghouta, the UK-based… Read more »
Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of Libya’s UN-backed government, has met renegade general Khalifa Haftar in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in a rare meeting between the key figures from two rival Libyan camps. The two men held face-to-face talks in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday “thanks to international and Arab mediation”, the LANA news agency said. There was no official statement after… Read more »