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“One of the things you’re seeing in this air campaign is the fruition of two decades of interoperability and procurement activities, training activity and education activities with our allies in the region,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday during a press briefing at the Pentagon. These nations “are performing just as well as we are on the issue of precision and reducing the possibility of collateral damage,” Dempsey said.
Even as the government has continued to equip volunteers, the de facto amnesty for deserters is an acknowledgment that the army desperately needs experienced soldiers — even ones who ran — for a force that is sustaining heavy losses despite the American-led airstrike campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
Saudi Arabia has released photographs of pilots it said conducted airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Syria as part of a U.S.-led campaign against the militant group. In of the pictures, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), some airmen were smiling, in green flight suits with arms around each other in front of one of their fighter jets.
Prince Turki said he hopes the airstrikes are the first step in doing that because "you can't simply deal with ISIS and not deal with Assad," he told "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell.
Al Qaeda's so-called "Khorasan group," which was struck in the US-led bombing campaign earlier this week, is run by senior jihadists dispatched to Syria by Ayman al Zawahiri. One member of the group, a veteran al Qaeda operative named Muhsin al Fadhli, has been publicly identified. But several US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal have confirmed that another well-known al Qaeda bigwig, a Saudi known as Sanafi al Nasr, is also a leader in the group. And, like al Fadhli, Nasr once served as the head of al Qaeda's Iran-based network.
Three years after Gaddafi died during an uprising against his rule, Libya is divided. The government and elected parliament have relocated to Tobruk in the far east since losing control of the capital, Tripoli, where a rival government has been created by forces from the western city of Misrata. Haftar has emerged as a renegade commander fighting Islamists and has recently entered into a frail alliance with the government in Tobruk.
NBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin talks about the involvement of Arab states in aiding the U.S. with their airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. Mohyeldin explains why ISIS is blaming Saudi Arabia for their part in the attacks. The Morning Joe panel joins the discussion as well.
For decades, successive Turkish governments have tolerated this illegal trafficking based on some strategic logic. The 30-year war between the state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) impoverished the southeastern region, diminishing revenues from agriculture and husbandry. Smuggling remained the only source of income for some villages. “Pro-state” (anti-PKK) villages especially benefited from the government’s benign neglect, which was a form of compensation for their loyalty. The December 2011 accidental bombing of 34 smugglers from Roboski village by the Turkish armed forces was a horrific tragedy that exposed this tradition. Villagers revealed to the press that until that day, the soldiers always looked the other way when they “went out to smuggle.”
On Sunday, Israel’s Population, Immigration and Border Authority released the list of the most common baby names in the Jewish year 5774. On it, Yosef and Tamar took home the titles for most popular boys’ and girls’ names, respectively. There was, however, one fairly large flaw in the list. As reported in Haaretz, the authority included only Hebrew baby names, omitting any of Arab origin. Turns out that the most popular baby name in Israel isn’t Yosef. It’s Mohammed.
The opposition is no doubt frustrated at being offered the prospect of political reform but only after elections in which their hope of victory is nil. A large-scale boycott would be embarrassing for the government, yet delaying the vote until reforms are enacted is probably not a realistic option. Under the constitution, polls have to be held before December 15 unless the king extends the terms of current members of parliament by two years. Perhaps the ominous presence of the "Islamic State"/ISIS in Syria and Iraq -- which is a danger to Bahrain's Shiites and ruling family alike -- will avert a major crisis at home.
