120 Children Slaughtered in Syria's Tal Abyad:
Terrorists
affiliated to the al-Nusra Front massacred 120 children and 330 men
and women in Syria's Northern district of Tal Abyad, media reports said
on Monday. Videos posted online by the militant groups showed hundreds
of women and children in Tal Aran, lying dead on the ground after
their homes and plant fields were bombed.
Assad accused of killing hundreds with missile attacks on civilian areas:
Syrian
forces are killing hundreds of civilians by firing missiles into
populated areas that have no military targets, according to Human
Rights Watch.
Thirty killed in heavy fighting in Syrian mountains: -
Syrian
rebels battled forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the Jabal
Akrad mountains overlooking the Mediterranean on Sunday and a
monitoring group said at least 30 people were killed.
Syrian rebels take key village: Activists say:
Syrian
rebels battled government troops in the coastal province of Latakia
for the second straight day on Monday, making advances in one of
President Bashar Assad's strongholds, activists said.
Video - Syrian rebel missile blowing up a tank:
A
video has been released claiming to show Syrian rebels blowing up a
government tank with a Russian Konkurs missile in Aleppo.
New video said to show Syrian chemical attack:
New activist video claims to show a chemical weapon attack near the Syrian capital Damascus.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As
12 killed in Iraq's violence:
Twelve people were killed and eight wounded in separate attacks in northern and central Iraq, police said on Monday.
Bomb kills 4 people waiting for bread in Baghdad; gunmen kill father, son:
Police
officials say a bomb went off on Monday afternoon as people lined up
to buy bread from a bakery in the mainly Shiite area of Kamaliyah in
eastern Baghdad.
Cafes shut, sports fields empty as war returns to Iraq:
Attacks
have spread to some of the few places left for public entertainment,
turning Baghdad into a giant fortified prison of concrete blast walls,
where once again few now dare to socialise in public.
General Dempsey in Israel to discuss Iran:
America's
top military officer and his Israeli counterpart Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz
will discuss boosting military cooperation between Israel and the
United States
Lieberman: There could be no political settlement with the Palestinians:
Avigdor
Lieberman, the former Israeli foreign minister, ruled out the
possibility of reaching a political settlement with the Palestinians,
affirming that the negotiations would be confined to limited security
and economic agreements.
Israel, an "unsustainable and apartheid" entity: US General :
This
is James Mattis, former commander of CentCom, a Marine general with 41
years' experience, the most respected combat leader of the last two
American generations.
West turned blind eye to Israel's involvement in Sabra and Shatila 'slaughter':
Between
800 and 3,500 people were killed - mostly older men, women and
children - by Israeli-backed, far-right Christian Phalangist militias
between September 16 and 18, 1982.
Clashes kill dozens in northern Nigeria:
At least 35 dead after Boko Haram fighters attack soldiers and a police station, according to the army.
Tunisia: Second Soldier Killed in Mine Blast:
The
explosion of an anti-tank mine on Sunday afternoon at Mount Chaambi,
killed a second soldier, TAP news agency learnt from a military source.
U.S. Sens. McCain, Graham to arrive in Egypt during political stalemate:
The
two Republican senators will meet with interim President Adly Mansour,
Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and interim Foreign
Minister Nabil Fahmy, said Egyptian foreign affairs spokesman Badr
Abdelatty..
Underage Girls Are Egypt's Summer Rentals:
"Some
girls have been married 60 times by the time they turn 18," says
El-Ashmawy. "Most 'marriages' last for just a couple of days or weeks."
CIA Was Smuggling Weapons to Syrian Rebels During Benghazi Embassy Attack:
The
CIA was smuggling weapons from Libyan weapons depots to the Syrian
rebels during the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi. According
to a report by CNN
Libya Oil Strikes Cause Power Outages:
The
Libyan capital is experiencing recurrent power outages lasting several
hours, with parts of Tripoli losing electricity twice a day.
Four killed in bombing at Afghanistan market:
Four
civilians have been killed by a bomb hidden inside a cart at a
livestock market in southern Afghanistan, a provincial official said.
Afghanistan: Taliban backers win £100m in US contracts:
The
US government has awarded more than $150m (£98m) in contracts to
companies and individuals in Afghanistan that are known to support the
Taliban, according to a US spending watchdog.
US warns Pakistan of sanctions if it pursues gas pipeline deal with Iran:
In
a major setback to Pakistan's efforts to overcome energy crisis in
future, United States has warned of imposing sanctions against the
country if it pursues $7.5 billion Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline
project.
Al-Qa'ida terror threat 'is the most specific since 9/11':
The
alert is "one of the most specific and credible threats I've seen,
perhaps since 9/11", Congressman Mike McCaul, the House Homeland
Security chairman, said yesterday. Speaking to CBS's Face the Nation,
Mr McCaul said that the US was on a "high state of alert".
Peter King says talk of terror-threat conspiracy 'absolutely crazy':
The
top Republican on the House Homeland Security committee has challenged
suggestions that the Obama administration may have issued recent
terrorism alerts to make a stronger case for the National Security
Administration's controversial electronic surveillance program.
NSA handing over non-terror intelligence:
The
National Security Agency is handing the Justice Department
information, derived from its secret electronic eavesdropping programs,
about suspected criminal activity unrelated to terrorism.
Glenn Greenwald : Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA:
Documents
provided by two House members demonstrate how they are blocked from
exercising any oversight over domestic surveillance.
Michael Hastings: New Surveillance Video Shows Fiery Crash:
A
new surveillance video from a nearby business obtained by San Diego 6
News and posted by LA Weekly graphically shows multiple explosions
consuming his 2013 Mercedes Benz.
Was FBI Watching Investigative Reporter?:
Just
before he died, Hastings "sent multiple emails, including to the
attorney for the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks, stating that the
FBI was investigating him," according to the lawsuit.
Licensed criminals: FBI informants authorized to break the law 5,600 times in one year:
In
at least 5,658 cases in a single year alone, the FBI authorized its
informants to commit crimes varying from selling drugs to plotting
robberies, according to a copy of an FBI report obtained by USA Today.
I'm fasting to highlight the plight of the Guantánamo hunger strikers:
Unlike me, the prisoners of Guantánamo Bay don't have the luxury of knowing when their hunger strike will end
California Prison Early Release Plan Won't Be Delayed, Supreme Court Rules:
The
U.S. Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the early release of
nearly 10,000 California inmates by year's end despite warnings by Gov.
Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis
looms if they're forced to open the prison gates.
Celebrities Join Prison Strikes In California, Protest Isolation:
A-list
celebrities including Gloria Steinem, Jay Leno, Jesse Jackson, and
Bonnie Rait have joined in on hunger strikes to protest solitary
confinement in California prisons, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Taken:
Under
civil forfeiture, Americans who haven't been charged with wrongdoing
can be stripped of their cash, cars, and even homes. Is that all we're
losing?
40 Percent Of U.S. Workers Make Less Than What A Full-Time Minimum Wage Worker Made In 1968:
According to the Social Security Administration, 40.28% of all workers make less than $20,000 a year in America today.
Homeless shelters overflowing in small Wisconsin city:
Kelly
Christianson, executive director of Beacon House, which houses
homeless families in the downtown area, confirmed to this reporter that
they are compelled routinely to turn away five to twenty families
nightly.
World's first $332,000 lab-grown burger to change the global diet:
A
Dutch scientist is offering the world's first cultivated beef made of
stem cells to taste. He believes the lab-grown meat will feed the world
and help save the environment. The tasting event happens amid UN calls
to invest more in food innovation.
