Warning to Swedish Tourists Abroad: You May be a Terror Target After Qur’an Burnings
Swedes abroad and businesses linked to Sweden “should observe increased vigilance and caution,” following protests in Muslim world.
Swedes abroad and businesses linked to Sweden “should observe increased vigilance and caution,” following protests in Muslim world.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” former Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), who also served as Secretary of the Army in the Obama administration, stated that the families of the American troops killed at the Kabul airport
The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) on Tuesday banned the term “homosexuality,” instead requiring all media organizations and social media platforms to use “sexual deviance.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Japan on Monday with a somewhat enigmatic agenda that reportedly includes a meeting with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.
Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone following a Qur’an burning in Copenhagen.
Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expelled the Swedish ambassador on Wednesday, even as a mob of protesters waving photos of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire.
The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday called for international laws to punish burning the Quran, following a demonstration in Sweden last week in which a man burned a copy of the Muslim holy book on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
Thousands of Muslims protested in major cities in Iraq on Friday, condemning the burning of a Qur’an during a protest in Sweden.
Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Iraq, even as Ukraine battles to defend its eastern border from Russian aggression.
The Long War Journal reported last week that two senior officials from the Biden State Department, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf, attended a conference in Iraq that was headlined by a known terrorist whose militias have killed hundreds of American soldiers.
The Washington Post on Sunday described classified U.S. intelligence documents included in the “Discord Leaks” – the trove of documents exposed by 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira to impress his friends on the Discord messaging platform – that said Iran concealed weapons in its humanitarian aid shipments to Syrian victims of the massive earthquakes in February.
Belgian authorities say they have arrested an Iraqi on charges of murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Legislation that would limit the executive branch’s powers to conduct military operations in Iraq without congressional approval passed the Senate Wednesday and now awaits a House vote under Republican leadership.
A an ex-advisor to Tony Blair said the war in Iraq as a “just war” amid calls for both Blair and President Bush to face war crimes tribunals.
Iraq’s ancient Christian community is still hanging on, twenty years after the U.S. invasion forced thousands of Christians to flee and nine years after the Islamic State threatened to wipe out those who remained.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday boasted that Chinese companies are taking a leading role in the reconstruction of Iraq, making money and spreading Beijing’s influence in a country the United States spent blood and treasure to liberate from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein two decades ago.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced he doesn’t have a “problem” repealing the 1991 and 2002 Iraq war authorizations (AUMF) to reduce American presidents’ broad powers to conduct military operations without congressional approval.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced he doesn’t have a “problem” repealing the 1991 and 2002 Iraq war authorizations (AUMF) to reduce American presidents’ broad powers to conduct military operations without congressional approval.
The Iraq War has cast a dark shadow over our country and the world, but Americans have always strived to learn from our mistakes, while honoring service and sacrifice.
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to advance legislation that would repeal two active authorizations for the use of military force (AUMF) against Iraq from the Gulf War and 2002.
The conservative Heritage Action group that holds sway with Republican lawmakers is calling on members to back the repeal of the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force in Iraq.
A boat migrant living in a hotel at taxpayers’ expense stabbed an 18-year-old student in the back at random, supposedly so he could be deported.
The death toll from the magnitude 7.5 earthquakes in southeastern Turkey continued to climb on Monday morning, as rescuers scrambled to search for the injured, missing, and dead beneath the rubble of fallen buildings. The latest count as of press time put the death toll in Turkey and Syria at over 2,300 and rising.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s forthcoming book recounts inside details on how then-President Donald Trump’s team came to the decision in the lead-up to New Year’s 2020 to kill Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
Dutch authorities arrested a Syrian man suspected of having been a security chief for the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra.
In what is being touted as a historic case, a Swedish court has convicted a female Islamic State member for human trafficking and facilitating the rape of children in Iraq and Syria.
A rapist barber has once again been jailed in Britain after he was found guilty of sending COVID pandemic payments to ISIS.
As Christmas approaches in the Middle East, persecuted Christians seeking to rebuild after the Islamic State genocide need help to build businesses, feed their families, and stay in their home communities, Father Benedict Kiely, the founder of the church charity Nasarean, told Breitbart News this week.
Speaking with veterans at a town hall, Biden told a story of when he was in Iraq as Vice President and he was asked to pin a Silver Star on a service member for rescuing a comrade that had fallen 150 feet.
Thirteen Iraqis have been stopped and turned back mid-ocean as they tried to enter Australia by small boat from Indonesia.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey’s airstrikes against Kurdish militia in Syria would soon be augmented by a major ground invasion. Meanwhile, Iran is launching missiles against Kurds living in the mountains of Iraq and using ground forces to crush protests in Iranian Kurdistan.
The EU´s border agency said the number of illegal migrants spiked to more than 275,000 in the January through October period this year.
“I’m thinking of Iraq because that’s where my son died,” he added, as an excuse for the verbal slip.
Clinton, Massachusetts, opened its Shrine of Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians last week, featuring an Iraqi-painted icon of the Virgin Mary open to all who wish to come and pray for Christians facing death, torture, exile, and other hardships as a result of their faith.
Iraq’s year-long political stalemate ended with a literal bang on Thursday, as Parliament elected former water resources minister Abdul Latif Rashid as president just hours after a barrage of rockets hit Baghdad’s secure Green Zone, where central government offices are located.
President Joe Biden appeared to incorrectly claim on Wednesday that his late son, Beau, “lost his life in Iraq.”
German prosecutors said they have charged a woman with crimes against humanity and aiding and abetting genocide.
Iran Human Rights (IHR), a monitoring group based in Oslo, Norway, said on Monday the death toll in Iran’s hijab protests is now over 75 — far higher than the Iranian government’s official count of 41.
Police in Italy and Belgium have arrested five alleged people-smugglers who are accused of using private jets to help ferry illegal aliens from Turkey to Europe for as much as €10,000 (£8,770/$9,983) per passenger.
IRAQ – For President Joe Biden, a renewed Middle East crisis lurks just as the Afghan withdrawal debacle enters the rearview mirror and record-high gas prices continue to retreat.