Al-Monitor American [author and former CIA officer] Graham Fuller emphasized that the West, including the United States, has now accepted that the [Bashar al-] Assad government will retain power. According to Fuller, Turkey has to do the same. Fuller, who described the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham [now the Islamic […]
Raw Story Police arrested a self-described “sovereign citizen” accused of shooting at police and firefighters after setting fire to a trash bin in Dallas. Emergency crews responded to the dumpster fire about 3 p.m. Monday, when the man opened fire on officers. Police said the gunman, who was the subject of a […]
Al-Jazeera The US failed to properly investigate civilian killings, including possible war crimes, which occurred during its military operations in Afghanistan, rights group Amnesty International has said. Left in the Dark, a report by the group published on Monday, focused on 10 incidents between 2009 and 2013 that […]
Raw Story Michelle MacDonald, the Republican nominee for the Minnesota Supreme Court who neglected to disclose her upcoming trial for a DWI, is coming under fire for promising GOP officials that she would base her opinions on Biblical principles. During a speech she gave at the Minnesota GOP convention […]
Associated Foreign Press The rise of Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq can be traced to America’s invasion of the country more than a decade ago, as it left a power vacuum and unleashed sectarian bloodletting, experts said Friday.With television footage of Sunni extremists sweeping across Iraq this week, critics […]
The Muslim Debate Initiative 