When the army cut off traffic in Istanbul on Friday night by shutting two bridges in the opening moments of a coup, the municipality ordered ferries to work overtime. City trucks blocked roads near army barracks. Buses and subways operated free of charge, and local […]
Whenever they appear, black swans are always unsettling. As defined by the Lebanese-American author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans are unexpected, hard-to-predict events that don’t fit the understood flow of history. In just the last week, there have been three. In Turkey, the first attempted […]
678 soldiers and ten officers, led by a colonel, were arrested at Ataturk International Airport. Under interrogation, many soldiers stated that they had no idea they were taking part in a coup, rather that they were taking part in a military exercise. Nevertheless, the authoritarian […]
The death of Islamic State’s “minister of war” may disrupt its operations, a senior U.S. military officer said on Thursday, and an Iraqi security expert said it could damage the group’s important recruitment efforts in ex-Soviet republics. Abu Omar al-Shishani (the Chechen), a close military […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday told his Russian counterpart in Moscow that the attack in the French city of Nice showed the need to speed up international efforts to tackle terrorism, especially in Syria. Kerry, who late on Thursday had talks with […]
The U.S. military is planning to request that more troops be sent to Iraq, the commander of U.S. Central Command has said. Joseph Votel’s comments come after the Obama administration announced the deployment of 560 extra soldiers to Iraq on Monday. Votel told Reuters that […]
A Nice, France resident of Tunisian descent has been identified as the suspected driver in the Bastille Day attack. Neighbors describe Mohamed Bouhlel as unstable. USA TODAY NETWORK The Nice mayor’s office confirmed Friday that Mohamed Bouhlel, 31, a resident of the French seaside city, […]
The atrocities are likely to continue even as Isis territory shrinks, writes David Gardner There is something especially horrendous about the kind of mass murder committed last night in Nice: so easy to carry out and so hard to prevent. High quality global journalism requires […]
Russia has conducted more than 50 air strikes since Tuesday against Islamic State (IS) jihadists near the Syrian city of Palmyra, the defense ministry in Moscow said. “The Russian air force has increased the intensity of its strikes against targets of the armed units of […]
Every conflict has a mythical hero or two or more. In the fight against ISIS, one of the most sensational icons of the fight against terrorism is the fierce looking Angel of Death aka Abu Azrael aka Daesh Killer aka jihadi slayer aka Rambo of […]
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