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US urges Pak, Afghanistan to work together against terrorism

The United States has urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to cooperate in order to curb extremism and terrorism from the region.The US State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau, in a press briefing, said that it will be premature to state anything regarding the attack on the American University in Kabul, however, it will be encouraging if Pakistan […]

Putin’s Savage War Against Russia’s ‘New Muslims’

This article was first published on the Wilson Center site. Today there are more than 2,000 fighters from Russia on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq fighting on behalf of the Islamic State. [i] A large number of these fighters are Muslims originating from the Northern Caucasus, a fact that feeds a narrative back in […]

Soldiers kill 27 Boko Haram terrorists in Cameroon

Yaounde (dpa) – Soldiers killed 27 members of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram and arrested ten others in northern Cameroon, the commander of a regional army force said Thursday. A Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) – set up by Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Benin and Cameroon to fight Boko Haram across borders – ambushed a group […]

A long-drawn war

The foreign sponsored terror in the country appears to have been the deadliest so far this year. The significant success of Zarb-e-Azb does not mean the war on terror is over. The country will have to fight both “homegrown and foreign sponsored” militancy for several years to come, and take sweeping steps on war-footing to […]

US resisters to the Iraq War are now living undocumented in Canada

In the 1960s and ’70s, during the Vietnam War, many Americans fled north to Canada as conscientious objectors. A few were allowed to stay. Something similar happened during the Iraq War — except, the staying part is a little more complicated. Even though Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed early support for letting war resisters […]

US-led air strikes kill 21 civilians in Syria

US-led air strikes kill 21 civilians in Syria

At least 21 civilians have been killed in air strikes by US-led coalition planes against areas in Syria held by the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS), a monitoring group said. In Monday’s air strikes on the northern Syrian town of Manbij, 15 civilians were killed in the […]

Iraq War report shows West has lessons to learn

US President George W. Bush (L) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair walk together from their meeting at the US Embassy in Brussels in this February 22, 2005 file photo. [Photo/Agencies] Former UK prime minister Tony Blair was heavily criticized in the official report of the inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War, which said his […]

The Lie That Walks by Our Side: Growing ISIL Attacks a Sign of US War ‘Success’

TEHRAN (FNA)- We can’t say why American officials lie; they just do. They all have their own reasons for not telling the truth, particularly those at the State Department. On Saturday, July 2, for instance, the US Administration presented the ISIL attack in Baghdad that killed 215 people as something that only “bolstered” America’s resolve […]