The secretary of State John Kerry told the reporters during a visit to Australia that the US “will explore more \u00e2\u20ac\u0153political, economic and security options, \u00c2\u00a0“but will not send combat troops to Iraq again”…<\/p>\n
… while “US air strikes continued on Tuesday, with a drone targeting an IS mortar near Kurdish troops…Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped by militants” …<\/p>\n
… but the current airstrikes are described to be “minimal and fleeting impact on the forces of the Islamic State” …<\/p>\n
… and RAF jets are leaving for Iraq, “and will carry out surveillance ahead of further airdrops to refugees”:<\/p>\n
The program targeted by the suit “casts a net so wide that it brands innocent, law-abiding residents, like Plaintiffs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d none of whom pose a security threat \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as ‘national security concerns’ on account of innocuous activity and associations, and characteristics such as national origin”:<\/p>\n
“The statement highlighted the fact that the campaign being waged against religious minorities by the Islamic State (Isis) threatens to provoke the biggest crisis in Catholic-Muslim relations since 2006” …<\/p>\n
… but supporters of ISIS were seen “canvassing around the busy shopping area of Oxford Circus”:<\/span><\/p>\n Britain’s support of Israel “is seen as complicit in Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oppression of Palestinians”, drove thousands to protest Britain’s foreign policy:<\/p>\n A “188-page report, the rights group … called the crushing of the main protester sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaah el-Adawiya Square on Aug. 14, 2013, the ‘world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history'”:<\/p>\n Gazans want to fight against the Israeli siege, but increasingly see the ineffective rocket strikes as counter-productive:<\/p>\n “Maliki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s growing isolation raised hopes of a relatively smooth transfer of power after a tense two-day standoff during which the desperate incumbent deployed security forces to strategic points across the capital”:<\/p>\n “Uighurs have long accused the Chinese government of trying to stamp out their cultural and religious practices, and … banning so-called ‘five abnormal appearances,’ which include headscarves and clothes with Muslim emblems like crescent moons, is just another example, they say”:<\/p>\n As Dean Obeidallah puts it, more Muslims have been persecuted by the terrorist groups than non- Muslims minorities since the rise of terrorism:<\/p>\n The secretary of State John Kerry told the reporters during a visit to Australia that the US “will explore more \u00e2\u20ac\u0153political, economic and security options, \u00c2\u00a0“but will not send combat troops to Iraq again”… John Kerry Insists Any US Moves in Iraq Will Not Involve Combat Troops\u00c2\u00a0(The Guardian) … while “US air strikes continued on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12171,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions\/12171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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