News: Following what has been described as a humanitarian crisis, the Guardian newspaper reported on the 14th of August that the "UK prepares to supply arms directly to Kurdish forces fighting ISIS". Comment: The spread of ISIS forces in Northern Iraq, coupled with reports of persecution of ethnic minorities and demands from the Christian communities to pay the Jizya, has generated international concern and the beginnings of a new phase…

News: On 7 August 2014, the US President Barack Obama authorized military strikes in Iraq. He said, "When we face a situation like we do on that mountain, with innocent people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale and we have a mandate to help - in this case a request from the Iraqi government - and when we have unique capabilities to act to avoid a massacre,…

No Obedience to Those Who Prevent Expulsion of the Crusaders A US general has been killed in an attack by an Afghan soldier at a British-run military academy near Kabul, US officials said on 5 August. Major Gen Harold Greene is the highest ranking US military official to have been killed since the Vietnam War. At least 15 soldiers - two British, several Americans and generals from Germany and Afghanistan…

News: Recently, it has emerged in a report published by SIGAR that the United States has spent more on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan than it spent on the Marshal Plan, which resuscitated Europe after the Second World War. According to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), congressional appropriations for reconstruction in Afghanistan have reached $104 billion in today's dollars. On the other hand, the Marshall Plan delivered…