ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament approved a motion Thursday that gives the government new powers to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq and to allow foreign forces to use its territory for possible operations against the Islamic State group. http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-considers-iraq-syria-incursions-070254660.html
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament approved a motion Thursday that gives the government new powers to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq and to allow foreign forces to use its territory for possible operations against the Islamic State group. http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-considers-iraq-syria-incursions-070254660.html
The family of a London student believed to have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State militants fear she is in “great danger.” http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/family-fear-london-girl-who-fled-to-syria-to-join-islamists-is-in-great-danger-9769087.html
If there’s one thing we should have learned over the past 13 years of war, it’s that war is good business for those in the business of war. Unfortunately, while profits for the Pentagon’s contractors increase, so does the cost to taxpayers in billion… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/who-will-profit-from-the_b_5915794.html
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Twin bombings near an elementary school in Syria killed at least 32 people on Wednesday, including at least 10 children, with the second blast going off as screaming parents frantically searched for their sons and daughte… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/isis-beheads-women_n_5912790.html
The academic crisis is even more dire than Iraq in war-torn Syria, where universities have been occupied or destroyed and thousands of students and professors have been displaced, threatened, or killed…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-e-goodman/what-will-become-of-syria_b_5862984.html
At least 15 children — all under age 2 — died and 50 others got sick after receiving measles vaccinations through a U.N.-sponsored program in Syria. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/18/world/meast/syria-measles-vaccination-deaths/index.html?hpt=imi_c2
At least 15 children — all under age 2 — died and 50 others got sick after receiving measles vaccinations through a U.N.-sponsored program in Syria. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/18/world/meast/syria-measles-vaccination-deaths/index.html?hpt=imi_c2
The U.S. isn’t returning combat troops to Iraq, President Obama insists, despite his top general’s suggestion that the Pentagon could consider that option. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/17/politics/obama-isis/index.html?hpt=imi_c2
The staggering death toll from the Syrian conflict has grown even further as at least 200 people were killed Tuesday, an opposition group said. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/17/world/meast/syria-crisis/index.html?hpt=imi_c2
White House officials have claimed that Arab nations have offered to join the U.S. in airstrikes against the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria, though no countries were specifically named. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/15/white-house-claims-arab-nations-offer-to-join-airstrikes-against-isis-in-iraq/