The commander of the US and Nato war in Afghanistan, admits the war-making will have to be extended beyond the next year while giving yet a fourth version of the hospital attack that critics call a war crime:
- Doctors Without Borders Airstrike: US Alters Story for Fourth Time in Four Days (Guardian)
- MSF Calls for Independent Inquiry into U.S. Attack on Afghan Hospital (Reuters)
- Is Alleged US Bombing of Afghan Hospital a War Crime? (Christian Science Monitor)
Observers say the campaign has come at the expense of the local Bedouin community, which has long felt disenfranchised by the government[,] … evicting more than 3,200 families and razing hundreds of acres of farmland”:
- Egypt Hails Campaign Against Islamic State Affiliate. Could It Backfire? (Christian Science Monitor)
The Qur’an says, “If the enemy inclines towards peace, then do you incline towards peace,” but Khamenei is too afraid of American “economic, cultural, political and security influence“:
“Dubbed the Xbox, the IED was designed to look and act like a bomb made by Iraqi insurgents so it could not be traced back to US forces”:
Grass-roots Islamophobia is back-firing with interfaith cooperation growing as faith as a wide-variety of faith communities come closer together as a consequence of united in opposition to hate-mongering:
- How Interfaith Activists Will Counter This Week’s Anti-Muslim Rallies:
And how you can help, too (Huffington Post)
Iran has agreed to inspections, but the IAEA shamefully still refuses to inspect the sites in the Middle East that already have nuclear weapons …
… as the U.S. favored this shameful outcome, it is no wonder that Iranians have “qualms … with U.S. Middle East policy”:
- Why Iran Doesn’t Trust America — And What Can Be Done to Change That (Huffington Post)
“Sedef Kabas … faced up to five years in prison for telling her Twitter followers not to forget the name of a prosecutor who dropped a corruption and bribery probe that implicated people close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan” …
- Turkish Court Acquits Journalist Who Suggested Cover-Up (AP / abc News)
… but a Saudi blogger whose weekly lashing were suspended is still “serving a 10-year sentence after being convicted of breaking Saudi Arabia’s technology laws and insulting Islamic religious figures through his blog … and [was] fined $266,000”:
- Saudi Blogger’s Wife Protests at Saudi Embassy in Vienna (AP / abc News)
“[F]orced … to choose between wearing clothes she saw as a religious obligation and becoming a citizen in her adoptive country[, she] sued the government, arguing that this policy violated her rights — and this February, she won”:
“Ahmet Davutoglu also renewed criticism of Russian airstrikes in Syria, insisting they were mainly targeting the moderate Syrian opposition and therefore helping strengthen the Islamic State group”:
- Turkey Calls on Russia to Respect Its Borders (AP / abc News)
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