Turkey detains 41 people over suspected Islamic State ties, minister says Turkish authorities have detained 41 people suspected of having ties to militant group Islamic State in operations across 12 provinces, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media platform X ... 04/30/2024 - 7:09 pm | View Link
'Bombing' hits Iraq military base housing pro-Iranian force, Iraqi officials say Hashed al-Shaabi, an alliance of mainly Shiite armed groups formed to fight the Islamic State group, has been integrated into Iraq’s regular security apparatus. The explosion on the Iraqi ... 04/19/2024 - 7:17 pm | View Link
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Advocates Regional Restraint in US Meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani visited ... U.S.-Iraq relationship beyond military cooperation. Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored the multifaceted agenda of the meetings ... 04/16/2024 - 4:38 am | View Link
Iraqi Prime Minister’s ‘Potemkin’ Visit to Washington While Israel decides its next steps in responding to Iran’s unprecedented attack over the weekend, the White House welcomed Iraqi Prime Minister ... visit to Baghdad by Islamic Revolutionary ... 04/14/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
President Biden Meets with Iraqi Prime Minister The president addressed the attacks at the start of a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, who was in to discuss U.S.-Iraqi relations. The president also reiterated the ... 04/14/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
GENEVA — Conflicts and natural disasters left a record nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, with violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East driving two-thirds of new movement, a top migration monitoring group said Tuesday.
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found that the number of internally displaced people, or IDPs, has jumped by 50% over the past five years and roughly doubled in the past decade.
The Biden Administration has announced new tariffs on Tuesday for Chinese made electric vehicles, quadrupling the current tariff from 27.5% to 102.5%, as well as new tariffs on solar cells, steel, and aluminum.
These tariffs are expected to raise $18 billion in imports from China.
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Currently, China exports very few electric vehicles to the U.
Who’s really to blame for the war in Ukraine? Vladimir Putin and his government? Or Russia and its people? Under international law, the answer may seem obvious. The Russian President gave the orders for his military to invade, and he carries ultimate responsibility. But in the 26 months since that calamitous decision, the question of blame has widened in the minds of many Ukrainians.
Twenty-eight-year-old Thai activist Netiporn Sanesangkhom, also known as “Bung,” died in a hospital in Bangkok on Tuesday after going into cardiac arrest. She had been hospitalized following a hunger strike she started in January to protest the country’s judicial system and imprisonment of political dissenters like herself.
Bung’s death comes amid waves of similar hunger strikes initiated by pro-democracy protesters detained in Thailand, which has come under criticism for its ironfisted treatment of activists at odds with the country’s conservative establishment.
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As Gaza solidarity encampments take root at dozens of campuses across the U. S., many Democratic and Republican lawmakers—in addition to President Joe Biden—have accused protestors and colleges of rampant antisemitism.
That’s woefully misguided—and dangerous. Indeed, the blanket assertion by pro-Israel advocates is intended as a political cudgel: weaponizing antisemitism to shield Israel from criticism of its attack on Gaza, which has left at least 35,000 Palestinians dead in the wake of the Oct.
BEIJING — Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Putin will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit starting on Thurday, it said.
The Kremlin in a statement confirmed the trip and said Putin was going on Xi’s invitation.