2014年8月19日 星期二

2014-08-20 Israel Middle East

  Toronto Star   
ISIL beheads US journalist, threatens to kill another in captivity  Firstpost
Baghdad: Islamist militants fighting in Iraq released a video on Tuesday which purported to show the beheading of American journalist James Foley as US officials said they were working to determine its authenticity. The video, titled "A Message to America," ...

Resistance repels Iraqi Tikrit offensive   BDlive
ISIS action is worse than genocide: Muslim intellectuals   The Hindu
Rivalry Flares After Joint Victory At Mosul Dam   Wall Street Journal
Business Standard   
Herald Scotland   
Daily News & Analysis   
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  CTV News   
Somali pirate kingpin arrested: Security sources  The Straits Times
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali security forces have arrested one of the country's most powerful pirate chiefs, who once hijacked giant vessels earning him multi-million dollar ransoms, security sources said Tuesday. Mohamed Garfanji was seized late Sunday in ...

Somalia TV sales grow as many avoid public places   Kansas City Star
Somalia: Al-shabaab is History, Warlords are Next   Geeska Afrika

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  The Daily Star   
Arabs face a deep crisis of statehood  The Daily Star
The dramatic expansion of the territory controlled by the “Islamic State” in Syria and Iraq in the last few months has generated a historic moment of reckoning in several arenas in those two countries, which mirror similar trends across the entire region.
Germany weighs providing weapons to Iraqi Kurds   Livingston Daily
Steinmeier considers arming Kurds in Iraq   Deutsche Welle
Germany Weighs Arming Kurdish Troops in Iraq   Wall Street Journal
Thomson Reuters Foundation (blog)   
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  Patheos (blog)   
Who Will Stop ISIS?  Patheos (blog)
The brutal beheading of photojournalist James Foley by the terrorists of ISIS is reported here in London's Daily Telegraph and across the world media tonight. The demon possessed murderers of ISIS will continue their barbaric onslaught and expand their ...

Bill Leonard: For Christians and Yazidis, elusive religious freedom   Winston-Salem Journal
Who Will Stand Up for the Christians?   New York Times
Lebanon's Christians united with Muslims   The Daily Star
Western Journalism   
The Hindu   
BREATHEcast   
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  Free Malaysia Today   
Libya's factional fighting moves closer to Tripoli  Oman Tribune
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI Libyan militiamen fired rockets into an affluent district of Tripoli early on Tuesday, moving a battle with a rival armed faction closer to the centre of the capital after fighters on one side came under air attack. Rebel groups who united to ...

Affluent Tripoli district comes under rocket fire   Gulf Times
Libya shuts 2 TV stations taken over by Islamists   Hindustan Times
Rival Libyan militias continue fight for supremacy in Tripoli   Middle East Eye

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  Scotsman   
UN airlifts to aid 500000 Iraq refugees  Scotsman
A girl who fled northern Iraq receives aid at a mosque near Basra. She is among 1.2 million Iraqis displaced by war. Picture: Reuters. by STEPHANIE NEBEHAY IN GENEVA. Published on the 20 August 2014 00:00. Published 20/08/2014 00:00. Print this.
UN Refugee Agency to Increase Humanitarian Aid to Refugees in Iraq   KTIC
UN agencies increase aid to displaced people in Iraq   Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Iraq: UN refugee agency launches major aid operation in Iraq   NCR-Iran.org
Voice of America   
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  The Guardian   
Australians helped the Yazidis in the 1920s – and can do so again  The Guardian
Some eight decades ago, Australian relief workers helped the Yazide community. We now have to send a clear message: we will still not turn our backs on the suffering and the displaced. Displaced families from Iraq's Yazidi minority settle in a refugee camp.
Iraqi Minorities Seek UN Emergency Session   Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Saving Sinjar From a Super 8   Foreign Policy (blog)
Q&?038;A: Catholic Relief Services official on the dire situation facing those ...   Washington Post
Expatica Switzerland   
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  Naharnet   
Friedman: Do not kid yourself about Syria's situation  Houston Chronicle
Thomas Friedman says our recent history in Iraq shows that arming the pro-democracy rebels in Syria would have made little difference. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. August 19, 2014. Share. Comments. Share.
Will the Ends, Will the Means   New York Times
Jordan Air Force Captain Turned Jihadist Killed in Syria   Naharnet
Rebels Attack Al-Assad Forces in Battle for Aleppo   AOL News
World Tribune   
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  Voice of America   
Attacks on Aid Workers Hit Record High  Voice of America
Violence against aid workers hit a record high last year, according to research released Tuesday. London-based consultancy group Humanitarian Outcomes says worldwide 155 aid workers were killed, 171 seriously wounded and 134 were kidnapped in ...

Violence against aid workers soars to record high, says UN   DAWN.com
Record Number of Aid Workers Killed Around the World Last Year   Slate Magazine (blog)
UAE calls for better efforts to protect aid workers   Khaleej Times
Business Standard   
Deutsche Welle   
Al-Bawaba   
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  Arab News   
One sentenced to death, 30 to jail for terror attacks  Arab News
RIYADH: A special criminal court court has sentenced one man to death and 30 others to prison terms of up to 30 years for their part in a series of militant attacks against government and foreign targets since 2003, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The men ...

Qaeda, IS 'enemy No 1' of Islam: Saudi mufti   The Nation
ON THE RISE   Daily Beast
Saudi beheads 4 men for smuggling drugs   Nigerian Tribune
Saudi Gazette   
RT   
Reuters   
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