After breaking off diplomatic ties with Iran, Saudi Arabia claims that it remains as committed as ever to securing peace in Syria and Yemen. This weekend, majority-Sunni Saudi Arabia ordered the execution of a dissident Shiite cleric, and, in response, protestors in majority-Shiite Iran stormed the Saudi Embassy in…
A Syrian activist and documentary filmmaker, Naji Jerf, was killed in Turkey Sunday, Agence France-Presse reports, citing a statement the group with which he worked released on Twitter.
Two Syrian families of six were settled in the Dallas and Houston areas on Monday, the Associated Press reports, and another family of four was settled near Indianapolis. “They seem very happy,” a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee, Lucy Carrigan, said.
Three Syrian soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in an airstrike on Sunday night. The Syrian government in Damascus has accused the U.S.-led coalition of the bombing, the Associated Press reports, but a senior U.S. military official said the Pentagon was “certain” it was the Russians.
After announcing from the hilltops that it will not, under any circumstances, no-way-buster, allow any more Syrian refugees to enter its state borders, a closer read of the law found that Texas actually can’t legally do that.
German lawmakers voted today to aid France in the fight against ISIS in Syria. Per the AP, Germany will engage in a “broad noncombat mission” by sending reconnaissance jets and a frigate to support French operations.
The state of Texas is suing the United States government, the Associated Press reports, in an effort to stop 6 Syrian refugees from being resettled in Dallas this week. Governor Greg Abbott has consistently sought to impede the arrival of refugees in his state since the terror attacks in Paris last month.
Coming off fresh from an incident in which he compared the Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs,” Ben Carson is now spending the week in Jordan, where he apparently plans to make up for his capacious lack of any sort of foreign affairs experience whatsoever with a few strategic head pats. And what has Dr. Carson learned so…
On Friday, presumably to burnish his (non-existent) foreign policy credentials, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson traveled to Jordan for a two-day tour of several camps of Syrian refugees, who he previously compared to rabid dogs.
After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that his state was not accepting people fleeing war and violence, he’s now ordered humanitarians to stop doing their jobs, too.
Today, Roanoke, Va., mayor David Bowers acknowledged similarities between banning assistance to Syrian refugees based on their country of origin and the use of Japanese internment camps during World War II.
Lots of people say “fuck ISIS,” but how many people actually think about the Islamic State in the context of sexual excitement? Retired Army Col. Kurt Schlichter just penned a pornographic novella about killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Arabs. It is insane and bad and a must-read.
As the GOP presidential hopefuls compete to see who can strike the toughest, most macho-looking anti-immigrant pose, we’ve witnessed Donald Trump’s “Operation Wetback,” thrilled to Ben Carson’s plan to Make Mexico Great Again, and heard Marco Rubio say “We can’t. We just can’t.” But here comes swaggering dicknose…
Russia on Tuesday joined France in bombing ISIS targets in Syria after confirming for the first time that a jet crash over the Sinai province earlier this month was caused by a bomb.
At a press conference on Monday, President Obama criticized those who have called for more invasive strategies in the United States and elsewhere to combat ISIS. “If folks want to pop off and have opinions about what they want to do, present a specific plan,” he said.
Real-life comic book villain Rupert Murdoch emerged from the algae-encrusted slime cave he dwells in on Monday to give his sage musings on the news of the day.
The governors of 17 states, including Florida, Arizona, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Illinois, have joined their cowardly colleagues in Louisiana, Michigan, Alabama, and Texas in trying to prevent Syrian refugees from settling in their states.
The governor of the brave state of Texas has announced that his state will refuse to accept any refugees who have fled war-torn Syria. In a letter announcing his decision, Gov. Greg Abbott “demanded” that President Obama consider a similar tactic following Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris.
On Sunday, the governors of Alabama and Michigan announced that they would suspend the relocation of Syrian refugees to their states.
French military planes carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS strongholds on Sunday in the wake of the attacks on civilians in Paris. CNN reports that targets in Raqqa, Syria were hit by 20 bombs delivered by 12 planes.
