ISRAEL, JORDAN, US MAY BE PREPARING STRIKE ON SYRIA’S CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Time Magazine reports that Israel, Jordan and the United States are preparing to eliminate Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons. Read more here.
Time Magazine reports that Israel, Jordan and the United States are preparing to eliminate Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons. Read more here.
You’d think they’d have all died out by now. But the Associated Press says it has discovered a top SS Nazi commander who, the AP says, lied on his immigration papers to get in the United States and who has been living in Minnesota. Now 91, Michael Karkoc is accused of burning villages filled with [...]
Published reports suggest the United States is preparing to provide lethal assistance to Syrian rebels. Something the administration has averted doing until now. What prompted the change in policy? A determination by the White House that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons on its own people. President Obama had previously said that the use [...]
Americans’ confidence in Congress as an institution is down to 10%, ranking it last on a list of 16 societal institutions for the fourth straight year. This according to a new Gallup poll. The military maintains its top spot, with 76% expressing confidence in it.
Gen Salim Idris, the top Syrian rebel commander backed by the West, has issued a desperate plea for weapons from Western governments to prevent the fall of his forces in Aleppo, pushing the Obama administration to decide quickly whether to agree to arm rebels for the first time. The Wall Street Journal reports Idris issued a [...]
At least 60 people are reported dead in an attack on a Shitte village in Syria. This time, the government is not to blame. Reportedly, Syrian rebels were behind this one. The government turning the tables on the rebels, blaming them for a massacre of civilians this time.
Is there anything handsome Harry can’t do? A gay solider has written a book about his experiences of being out in the British army, including a remarkable story of how Prince Harry, who was his tank commander, confronted six soldiers who threatened to “batter” him, telling them to “back the f*** off”. James Wharton describes [...]
It’s too dangerous guarding border crossings in the Golan Heights for Australian blue helmeted troops. So they are withdrawing. But the Russians are coming to the rescue.Offering troops for UN peacekeeping duties. But to Israel, this may be a bit troubling. Russia maintains a naval base in Syria. And is a strong supporter of the [...]
The Syrian government has interrogated students and carried out violent assaults on their protests and military attacks on schools, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.Both government forces and opposition armed groups have used schools as military bases, barracks, detention centers, and sniper posts, turning places of learning into military targets and putting students [...]
Most voters believe the WikiLeaks release of classified documents is likely to have hurt U.S. national security and think the American soldier who helped make the information public on the Internet is a traitor. But they’re closely divided over whether that soldier deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. The latest Rasmussen [...]