By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity The Defense Department has confirmed the deaths of senior terrorist leaders in Libya and Somalia from recent U.S. airstrikes, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement today. Cook said a Nov. 13 U.S. airstrike in Libya killed Iraqi national Abu Nabil, also known as ...
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By Weblord | 7 December, 2015 | Categories:
Near East & North Africa, Policy, Security & Counterterrorism
| Tags: Abdirahman Sandhere, Abu Nabil, ISIL, Middle East, midest
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has grown since 2014, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today, and it is important that the United States and coalition partners continue to put pressure on the terror organization across all domains and with every facet of government. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph ...
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By Weblord | 6 December, 2015 | Categories:
Near East & North Africa, Policy
| Tags: ISIL, Joseph Dunford, Middle Easy, midest
November 25, 2015 Fact Sheet Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC Myth: All Syrian refugees are dangerous. Fact: 2,234 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States since October 1, 2010 (the beginning of fiscal year 2011), and only after the most extensive level of security screening of any category of traveler to ...
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By IRC | 27 November, 2015 | Categories:
Fact Sheets, Near East & North Africa, News, Policy
| Tags: fact sheet, Syrian refugees
06 March 2015 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson Washington, D.C. STATEMENT BY SECRETARY KERRY ISIL’s Destruction of Historical Heritage and Archeological Treasures I am deeply disturbed by reports that ISIL has extended its destruction of Iraq’s historical treasures to the ancient archeological site of Nimrud. These depraved acts are an assault on ...
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By Weblord | 6 March, 2015 | Categories:
Former U.S. Government Leaders, Near East & North Africa, Policy
| Tags: Historical Heritage, Iraq, ISIL, John Kerry
The damage and looting of historic sites in Iraq and Syria are rapidly destroying all evidence of ancient life and society. Fragile sites and buildings have suffered as collateral damage to battles, targets for purposeful ideological destruction, and prey for systematic looting. More than 90 percent of Syria’s cultural sites are inside areas of ...
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By Weblord | 24 September, 2014 | Categories:
Art & Culture, Near East & North Africa, Policy
| Tags: ancient monuments, Babylon, Cultural heritage, Emergency Red List, Erbil, Iraq, Persia, Syrai
