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Houston Chronicle
February 28, 2018
"We must continue to take the fight to ISIS, not only in Syria and Iraq, but also in Afghanistan and Africa," Crenshaw says on his website. ... States Congressional District 2 candidate Kevin Roberts speaks during the Houston Congressional Candidate Forum at Houston's First Baptist Church Thursday, Jan.
bdnews24.com
February 28, 2018
Subsequently, especially since controversial January 2014 elections, bitter political divisions have reopened space for new forms of jihadist activism,” it ... wave of violence', involving JMB and Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh or HuJI,B, peaked with the JMB's August 2005 synchronised explosions in 63ÃÂ ...
Independent.ie
February 25, 2018
After education at a Jesuit college, he studied economics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, where he was a student of the Nobel prizewinner Jan ... When Van Agt unexpectedly stepped down after winning an election in 1982, Lubbers was elected to succeed him and became the youngest prime ministerÃÂ ...
Mintpress News
February 25, 2018
ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, were kicking the ball hard down the streets of Washington. On Jan. 25, 2017, I had a chance to confront Schiff personally ... Those whose memories go back more than 15 years may recall his promoting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as flat fact.
U.S. News & World Report
February 24, 2018
Joe Plenzler served as Mattis' public affairs officer from 2001 to 2003 including deployments to Iraq and thinks Mattis should engage the public more. ... Plenzler wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post in January criticizing how seldom the American people hear from their top defense leaders under theÃÂ ...
KTVQ Billings News
February 24, 2018
January 22, 2014 - At the Geneva II conference, US Secretary of State John Kerry says the path to a peaceful Syria must involve the world community, but cannot include Syrian President al-Assad. June 3, 2014 - President al-Assad is re-elected, receiving 88.7% of the vote in the country's first election sinceÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com (blog)
February 23, 2018
On Jan. 25, 2017, I had a chance to confront Schiff personally about the lack of evidence — something that even Obama had acknowledged just before slipping out the door. ... Those whose memories go back more than 15 years may recall his promoting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as flat fact.
Jordan Times
February 6, 2018
Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and even Libya and Tunisia are all lining up to hold what can only be described as crucial elections. Interestingly, all of ... Egypt: The outcome of Egypt's presidential election next March is already known: Abdel Fattah Al Sisi will secure a second, four-year term, as president. But the realÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
February 4, 2018
Seven years on from Egypt's revolution in January 2011, its descent into repression is well and truly entrenched, with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi "contesting" the presidential election in March virtually unopposed. Ahead of the elections, which have been condemned by human rights groups for theirÃÂ ...
Rudaw
February 2, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has allied with an Arab list in Saladin province to run for Iraqi elections, a party member confirmed to Rudaw ... In 2005, all the Kurdish factions ran on a united list in Saladin province, but they did not win a single seat, Qurbany noted.
The Atlantic
January 30, 2018
Bush's remarks on January 29 came just months after the September 11 attacks and the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. He said: ... Later that year, Afghans voted in presidential elections that put Hamid Karzai in office. 2005. On February 2, Bush referred to this political development in Afghanistan:.
CNN
January 30, 2018
Trump opted on Tuesday to cite the growth in jobs from his election, rather than when he took office in January. "Since the .... "One year later, I'm proud to report that the coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated very close to 100% of the territory just recently held by these killers in Iraq and in Syria." There is noÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
January 29, 2018
2005 A general election is held in Iraq to elect a National Assembly, the first general election since the 2003 invasion and the first free election for 50 years. 2006 Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader the Rev Martin Luther King Jr, dies. 2013 South Korea successfully launches a satellite intoÃÂ ...
The Arab Weekly
January 29, 2018
Those who assert that Iraq is democratic base their claims on the fact that the country has been having elections since 2005. ... have led many Iraqis to give their votes to parties that match more their backgrounds instead of voting for candidates based on their election manifestos or political agendas.
The Drum
March 23, 2017
The Times delivered 151 million readers across all platforms in January, despite operating a metered paywall. More significantly, it has amassed 3 million paying subscribers for its output and is making an unrivalled ... Launched to coincide with the ...
NJ.com
March 22, 2017
It was the New York Times, not Napolitano, that claimed in a front-page headline on Jan. 20 that wiretapping was .... They even employ Charles Krauthammer, the left-wing former Walter Mondale speechwriter who got everything wrong about Iraq, the Arab ...
WHIO
March 22, 2017
President Donald Trump is sending greetings on the occasion of the Persian New Year, known as Nowruz. The White House issued a statement Wednesday sending the president's "best wishes to all those around the world celebrating the wonderful ancientÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
March 22, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testifies during a confirmation hearing in January. (Associated ... They rely on Iraqi security forces and Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq, and U.S.-backed rebel militias in Syria, to carry out combat operations, while the U ...
New Statesman
March 22, 2017
Yet the battle to retake the west, which began on Sunday 19 February and is being led by Iraq's Emergency Response Division (ERD) and counterterrorism forces, has proved different - and faster.
Consortium News
March 21, 2017
By Robert Parry (Originally published April 15, 2005). On March ... As the Islamic Revolution gained strength in January 1979, however, the Shah's security forces could no longer keep order. The Shah .... With the hostage crisis started, a countdown of ...
Indiatimes.com
March 21, 2017
Fourteen years have passed since the US forces set their foot on the Iraqi soil for what they projected as a war to find the weapons of mass destructions (WMD); to bring democracy for the people of Iraq and continue their so-called war on terror that ...
Big Think
March 19, 2017
This theory was, of course, widely debunked but continues to live on. One reason for the idea's longevity is that historical facts did prove that the war in Iraq was justified using incorrect information about the supposed existence of weapons of mass ...
Huffington Post
March 18, 2017
There was less appetite for, say, "15 Iraqi Children Who Died Agonizing Deaths During The Initial Bombardment Of Baghdad" or "15 Ways Bush Policies Helped Decimate The Wealth Of Working Americans To Benefit The Ultra-Rich.
amNY
March 15, 2017
Although the president suggested that CNN had taken a break from polling after the presidential election, the news network has continued to issue polls regularly, including one released on March 6, on whether a special prosecutor should investigate the ...
NCR-Iran.org
March 15, 2017
Iranian news media reported that the Iraqi government has accepted the revolutionary guard Brigadier General Iraj Masjedi, a senior adviser to Qasem Soleimani, commander of the terrorist Quds Force, as the Iranian regime's ambassador in Baghdad.
Consortium News
March 13, 2017
So, the Obama administration - in an unprecedented step - sought to poison the well for its successor by having the U.S. intelligence community put out evidence-lacking allegations about Russian "meddling" in the U.S.
Los Angeles Times
March 13, 2017
Facing a Monday deadline, the Justice Department asked lawmakers for more time to provide evidence backing up President Trump's unproven assertion that his predecessor wiretapped his New York skyscraper during the election. The request came .... They ...
Human Rights Watch
March 13, 2017
The intelligence service then takes the detainees before an investigative judge to assess whether there is enough evidence to bring charges for supporting ISIS under Provision 4 of the Federal Iraqi Counterterrorism Law (no. 13/2005). The judge then ...
Omaha World-Herald
March 11, 2017
Once the member of an armed rebellion of the oppressed, in 2005 Al-Helfi joined a peaceful revolution of several hundred Iraqi expatriates who traveled to Chicago to vote in Iraq's first free parliamentary election. The 20-hour round trip was permeated ...
Miami Herald
March 1, 2017
Trump signed an executive order Jan. 25 directing the Department of Homeland Security to prioritize the ... Through this fiscal year, the United States has spent about $3.8 trillion, with another estimated $1 trillion in expected care for veterans of ...
The Federalist
March 1, 2017
According to Wilson, the CIA greenlighted the trip to answer a question Vice President Dick Cheney's office had asked the CIA regarding Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium in Africa. Wilson reported ... In fact, it is now known that Libby had argued for a ...
WKOW
March 1, 2017
But the state Supreme Court reversed itself in January, amid pressure from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton, as well as dozens of other conservative elected officials, church leaders and grassroots ...
Al-Monitor
March 1, 2017
Why did the kingdom not take a similar stance when Iraq was most in need of help from neighboring countries when jihadi groups were spreading in the country between 2005 and 2007 and when IS took control of one-third of Iraqi territories and Baghdad ...
The Daily Freeman
March 1, 2017
RHINEBECK, N.Y. >> Village Mayor Heath Tortarella is being challenged in his bid for re-election by Gary Bassett, a member of the Village Board.
Mercer Space
February 28, 2017
Both the Islamic Circle of Mercer County, located in Lawrence, and the Islamic Center of Ewing said they received messages of support following two major motions against Islam in late January: the travel ban executive order signed by President Donald ...
Common Dreams
February 28, 2017
But even before the original travel ban was announced on Jan. 27, the Supreme Court had loaded up its ... Supreme Court stand out in particular.
Newsweek
February 28, 2017
On election night last November, Nathan Damigo, a 30-year-old white nationalist and student at California State University, Stanislaus, met up with friends in the northern California city of Folsom.
World Socialist Web Site
February 26, 2017
Hostility to immigrants dominates major parties in Dutch election. By Dietmar ... According to recent polls, the two governing parties taking part in the Dutch parliamentary elections on March 15 will be punished for their drastic austerity policies ...
Just Security
February 25, 2017
A request from the White House to dispute media reports that Trump campaign officials had regular contacts with Russian intelligence officials during the election campaign was rejected by the FBI, Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, Manu Raju ...
The Denver Post
February 25, 2017
In an Oct. 8 Denver Post story, Gardner said he would not vote for Trump, then the GOP presidential nominee following the release of a 2005 video that shows Trump making vulgar comments about women. "If Donald Trump wishes to defeat Hillary Clinton ...
The Atlantic
February 23, 2017
It is an unseasonably warm afternoon in late January, and we are seated at a corner table in Monocle, an upscale Capitol Hill restaurant frequented by the Fox News star.
The Economist
February 23, 2017
A series of terrorist attacks struck Pakistan, including one on a Sufi shrine that killed 88 people. The army blamed infiltrators from Afghanistan, sealed the border and shelled what it said were terrorist bases on the Afghan side.
Newsday
February 23, 2017
TRAVEL WARNING: Following contested elections, a coup attempt and the continuing threat of civil unrest, American citizens are warned to avoid travel to this African nation.
Bustle
February 23, 2017
In the lead-up to the November election, polls indicated that Americans were not happy about the options they'd been given.
AZCentral.com
February 22, 2017
Humayun Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq in 2004. However ... Oct. 8, 2016: McCain finally pulled his support of Trump over the 2005 Trump sex-talk recording, joining many other Republicans in walking out on their party's nominee. Nick Oza/The ...
Buffalo News
February 22, 2017
Their former homelands include Bangladesh and Burma, Iran and Iraq, Canada, Mexico and Italy. But at 10:33 ... Sergey Aponchuk, 22, a former Ukrainian, came to Buffalo in 2005 to join family members here. "It feels good ... Biron didn't disappoint ...
Reaction
February 22, 2017
The Liberals last won a majority in January 1910. After the 1918 General Election a Liberal was still Prime Minister.
Bustle
February 21, 2017
On Jan. 27, the president signed an executive order bringing the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and all travel from seven primarily Muslim countries - Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, and Libya. Within hours of its signing, hundreds were ...
Global News Network
February 21, 2017
Mr. Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, in July 2012 said that France was "too big to fail", and that he would do "whatever it takes" to save the Euro; then in January 2016, he claims its stock capacities had "no limits". But these ...
Stars and Stripes
February 20, 2017
In the Iraq War, McMaster commanded a 3,500-soldier brigade in the northern city of Tal Afar, which was being torn apart in 2005 by Iraq's civil war. He largely jettisoned the Bush administration's official strategy at the time of pulling back from ...
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