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Archives for December 2015

Captured Daesh Commander Reveals How ‘Turkey Actively Helped Militants’

Kerim Amara is one of the militant commanders of Daesh (Islamic State) who was taken prisoner by Kurdish forces in Syria. A correspondent from Sputnik Turkiye was able to secure an exclusive interview with the militant.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
Captured Daesh fighter Kerim Amara. (Photo: Sputnik/ Hikmet Durgun)

A 31-year-old citizen of Tunisia, Kerim Amara, until recently was a commander in the ranks of Daesh. He joined the jihadists in 2013 and was captured by Kurdish forces in 2015. After fighting on the side of Daesh for a year in Ramadi, Amara was send to Aleppo where he fought against the Free Syrian Army for more than two months. Later on he was

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Kuwait To Send Ground Troops To Join Saudi War In Yemen

The conflict has so far killed more than 6,000 people. The U.N. agency for children, UNICEF, has said that nearly half of those killed in the war so far have been civilians, and that 637 of them have been children.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
A boy and his sisters watch graffiti artists spray on a wall, commemorating the victims who were killed in Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May 18, 2015. Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels resumed early on Monday in the southern port city of Aden after a five-day truce expired amid talks on the war-torn country's future that were boycotted by the rebels.

Kuwait will send ground troops to Saudi Arabia as part of their involvement in the ground offensive in Yemen against the Ansarullah rebels, known as Houthis, a local newspaper reported Tuesday citing an unnamed government source. "Kuwait decided on the participation of its ground forces, represented by an artillery battalion, in operations to

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Israel Plans Another 55,000 West Bank Settlement Units

The announcement has caused considerable concern that it would effectively prevent a contiguous Palestinian state.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Stolen land in the Hebron hills

Israeli settler watchdog Peace Now is warning in a new report that the Israeli Housing Ministry is seeking a massive series of new settlement expansions cutting across all sections of the West Bank, totaling 55,548 new housing units, including two new settlements. The new settlements would be in the E1 area, and would further divide the

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State Department Claims It Brought Peace to Syria in 2015

Spokesperson John Kirby’s annual roundup included controversial “success stories.”

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
A Kurdish boy, center background, walks between buildings that were destroyed during the battle between the U.S. backed Kurdish forces and the Islamic State fighters, in Kobani, north Syria. The Kurdish town on the Turkish-Syrian border is still a haunting, apocalyptic vista of hollowed out facades and streets littered with unexploded ordnance - a testimony to the massive price that came with the victory over IS. (AP Photo/Mehmet Shakir)

State Department spokesperson John Kirby is raising eyebrows after he released a recap of 2015 "success stories" in which he credits the United States for bringing "peace" and "security" to Syria and "stepping up" to help the country's people at a difficult time. "The United States and many members of the international community have stepped up

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California Politicians Could Soon Be Forced To Wear Logos Of Top Corporate Donors

“Imagine this: a California Senator is speaking on the floor and proposes a bill he just drafted that will give oil companies huge tax advantages. Now imagine if on his jacket, he was wearing Chevron, Shell, and BP logos – some of his top ten contributors.”

Carey Wedler
By Carey Wedler

Popular memes calling for politicians to wear the logos of their corporate sponsors have circulated the internet for years, but the suggestion may soon be a reality for California legislators. In the next week, a potential ballot measure, submitted to the Office of the Attorney General in October, is expected to receive title and summary for the

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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Believe India Isn’t Grateful For Facebook’s Free Internet

“Who could possibly be against this?” he asks passive-aggressively. “Surprisingly, over the last year there’s been a big debate about this in India.”

Quartz India
By Quartz India
Indians use mobile phone as they sit at a market area in New Delhi, India ,Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015 (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)

All Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to do is make the world a better place for his new daughter. While he’s technically on paternity leave, he couldn’t sit idly by as India attempts to halt Internet.org, Facebook’s initiative to provide free but limited internet to the developing world. Last week, the Times of India reported that the

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