I wasn't afraid last night when I heard airstrikes, and I wasn't afraid when I heard
about ISIS a stone's throw away from my temporary home last week here in the Philippines — seemingly out of thin air, at a moment's notice.
Will Trump do something
about ISIS?
(Or, given what I'm hearing
about ISIS, maybe I should recommend one of Barbara Tuchman's other fine books, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.)
Director Matthew Heineman followed up his Oscar - nominated Cartel Land with City of Ghosts, his paean to citizen journalists in Raqqa, Syria who struggled to inform the world
about ISIS atrocities in their city.
Two films on Syria's civil war made the cut — Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts,
about the ISIS takeover of Raqqa, and Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo, about courageous civil defense workers in that city.
We talk all
about ISIS and we talk about all these groups out in the world, but this is something that we are tied to, we are connected to it whether we like it or not.
RBSS (Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered) is the movement spreading the truth
about ISIS atrocities — including public beheadings, shootings, and bombings.
We talk
about ISIS, we talk about all these horrible groups around the world, but this is something that's happening just south of us, in a country we share a history with, a border with.
It comes after Jeremy Corbyn controversially sacked Pat McFadden over comments he made in the House of Commons
about ISIS.
Several shouted «fight like Ferguson» or «I ain't worried
about ISIS, I'm worried about the cops,» while many huddled solemnly on the sidewalk, the bright red - and - white awning of DeJoy's Red Top Cars glowing above them.
Republican Long Island Rep. Pete King says the president «lives in a politically correct, delusional state
about ISIS.»
But if we talk exactly
about ISIS, not about all the crowd of islamist radicals waving some black banners, then I see neither ISIS» anti-Turkey actions, nor Turkish government's counter-measures.
At a press conference in Syracuse, Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) urged the U.S. to improve information sharing with international allies
about ISIS and beef up the country's airport security.
However, intelligence officials told The Post that there were concerns that he still maintained a radical ideology and told friends he had an open mind
about ISIS.
J. Myers: No, I am not saying that we should do nothing
about ISIS.
There's been a lot of news
about ISIS being down to its last few hundred fighters in the news and possibly being on the ropes in Iraq and Syria.
In addition to the Times report, The Washington Post reported on Monday that Trump disclosed highly classified intelligence
about ISIS from an ally — later revealed to be to Israel — to Russian diplomats during a recent Oval Office meeting.
As of late, he has come under fire for his firing of FBI director James Comey, his alleged sharing of guarded intelligence
about ISIS with the Russian foreign minister, and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to look into his former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who Trump has since fired for misrepresenting talks he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak.
The U.K.'s Independent reported that Anonymous has already started leaking information
about ISIS members, and the publication said it's seen one post that includes the address of a recruiter in Europe.
Not exact matches
About 700 - 1,000 ISIS fighters are thought to be in Afghanistan, and the MOAB strike was thought to have killed about 94 of
About 700 - 1,000
ISIS fighters are thought to be in Afghanistan, and the MOAB strike was thought to have killed
about 94 of
about 94 of them.
The recent attacks, and the fact that
ISIS - K has proven to be stubbornly resilient, have made some in the West more worried
about the group.
But while the US is no longer being coerced into walking an Iranian - approved path in Syria, clashes with Iran could put the
about 500 US troops in Syria at risk, as the US closes in on
ISIS's final strongholds and the fight for the future of Syria shapes up.
The service gained popularity following the Edward Snowden revelations
about U.S. government surveillance and has since been used by
ISIS and other terrorist groups to disseminate information.
Last week, Telegram shut down 78
ISIS - related channels after terror attacks rocked Paris and opened up questions
about how terrorists use encryption to prevent their communications from being intercepted.
And the way they got out really caused
ISIS, if you think
about it.
In almost every case, whether it was «dog whistle» statements
about race aimed at currying favor with neo-Nazis, or comments
about how the Democrats created
ISIS, Trump's message was not designed to fit into the traditional candidate - media relationship.
He proposed «closing the parts of the Internet where
ISIS is» — which he believed Bill Gates could help him with — and called those concerned
about the freedom of speech implications of such a move «foolish people.»
The incident revives concerns
about the safety of Egypt's airports, coming so soon after
ISIS smuggled a bomb aboard a Russian airliner carrying vacationers.
A number of factors have contributed, including concerns
about dropping oil prices, slowing growth in China and geopolitical tensions (among them, concerns over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis and
ISIS attacks).
«This isn't
about defeating
ISIS as the end objective.
«Mr. Trump could have said more
about opening a broader cyber front against
ISIS.»
For example, on your feed there might be a recipe for guacamole underneath a football player beating his girlfriend underneath a link to a funny cat video underneath some one talking
about a reporter being beheaded by
ISIS.
Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with
ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief
about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaders.
About 230 people, «some of who were taken from a church,» were kidnapped or detained by
ISIS when the terrorist group captured the Syrian town of Qaryatain on Friday.
As debate continues over President Obama's assertion
about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (
ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.
It just
about goes without saying that the rise of
ISIS is one of the most significant humanitarian crises of the last 50 years.
This morning, two
ISIS - led two suicide bombings killed
about 25 people in Baghdad.
They told me the woman was singing
about all the things Da'esh (
ISIS) had done in their hometown; all the things her people had seen and the things those who had not been fortunate enough to escape would have to endure.
At USA Today, columnist Kirsten Powers writes
about the State Department's apparent reluctance to refer to
ISIS's persecution of Iraqi and Syrian Christians as a genocide.
I ask myself often things like «As a soldier how am I to feel
about the situation with
ISIS?»
What
about those convicted of fighting for
ISIS, like the prisoner sitting with his back against the wall, facing Sadiq?
The ideological fight against
ISIS is not
about reducing them to the true size of their moral feebleness.
Similarly, not all of those targeted by
ISIS or North Korea agree
about the meaning of the church or the content of the gospel we proclaim.
Allegedly, Arafat M. Nagi «proselytized» people in his area
about jihad and planned to join up with
ISIS in Turkey.
His book
about the atrocities of
ISIS, 2015's Defying
ISIS, went a long way toward raising national and global awareness of
ISIS's direct persecution Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities.
The
ISIS assault on his people, he told me, was but the latest of eight different assaults on Chaldean Catholics over the last century, which have reduced what was once a population of three million to
about 180,000.
The notion that Donald Trump, self - professed admirer of Vladimir Putin, is going to defend persecuted Middle East Christians is as ludicrous as the claim that Mr. Putin, ex-KGB thug and current kleptocrat, gives a tinker's dam
about the Christian victims of
ISIS.
So therefore I hear
about Hitler and
ISIS and agree that there needs the be active intervention against such..
Don't you think our government has more important thing to worry
about, (mass migration,
ISIS, shortage of funds, lack of Doctors etc).
Still, you think she had something really controversial
about, say same - sex marriage or the Middle East or
ISIS or something of real substance, but the world reacted swiftly and snarkily and the 41 - year - old actress, who had a baby with boyfriend Ryan Gosling last September, had to tweet — hey, it was joke!