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Bakoyianni Says War with Turkey Would Find Greece Alone - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-12-11 14:44Political and General News Events from Dec. 10 | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-12-11 07:50Members of child abuse WhatsApp group arrested in 11 countries
BBC - 2019-12-11 00:07The global investigation, led by Spain's National Police, tracked down 33 members of the group. ...
Top stories of 2019 – January-June | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-12-10 23:23Top stories of 2019 – July-December | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-12-10 19:54Press release on Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov’s meeting with the delegation of the Syrian opposition Kurdish National Council
MFA Russia - 2019-12-10 18:33Despite Turkey’s drift from the West, Nato is still Ankara’s best security guarantor - The National
Thenational - 2019-12-10 16:39A journey through the ISIS badlands - The National
Thenational - 2019-12-10 14:27National Strike to continue in Colombia
ANF - 2019-12-10 12:59Colombia’s National Strike Committee has announced that they will continue to protest against right-wing President Ivan Duque as peacefull demonstrations will keep on at least until today, Tuesday. ...
Kobanê intellectuals to hold workshop on national unity
ANF - 2019-12-10 10:41The Kobanê Intellectuals Association will promote a national unity workshop in Kobanê which will be attended by many intellectuals, writers and academics as well as representatives of different political parties. ...
The ‘new beginning’ of ISIS: how the militant group is using Iraq’s blind spot to rise again - The National
Thenational - 2019-12-10 06:54Greta Thunberg and other youth call on Trudeau to ditch fossil fuels | National Observer
Nationalobserver - 2019-12-10 03:38Joint Civil Society letter in Support of the UNGA Resolution on Human Rights in Iran
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2019-12-10 02:46Monday, 9 December 2019 To: All Permanent Missions to the United Nations in New York Your Excellencies, The undersigned national, regional and international civil society organizations urge your government to support resolution… The post Joint Civil Soci ...
A Call to Arms: Why the CIA Needs to Play a New Role in the Middle East | The National Interest
Nationalinterest - 2019-12-10 00:51Turkey Extradites 11 French IS Suspects
BAS News - 2019-12-09 18:01ERBIL — Turkey sent back 11 captured suspects of Islamic State (IS) membership to their home country, France, said Turkish Interior Ministry. Turkey is stepping up its program to deport foreign national of Islamic State (IS) currently in its prisoners. A ...
“Different Hells” - Greece’s Mainland, Island Refugee, Migrant Detention Camps - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-12-09 10:38Allawi Calls for Resolution to Current Unrest in Iraq
BAS News - 2019-12-08 23:50ERBIL - Ayad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Alliance, has called for a resolution to the current unrest in the country, as anti-government protests continue. Allawi, who has previously served as the Iraqi prime minister, urged on Sunday Iraqi Preside ...
March for National Unity in London
ANF - 2019-12-08 20:58A march was held in London, demanding national unity. ...
ISIS members with the badges of FSA and the SNA
ANF - 2019-12-08 15:18ISIS members participated in the occupation of Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî under the Turkish flag and in the uniform of the so-called Syrian National Army (SNA). Meanwhile, they no longer consider it necessary to hide their identity. ...
Demo for national unity in Sydney
ANF - 2019-12-08 15:18Kurds and their friends carried out an action in support of national unity in Sydney, Australia. ...
Demonstrations for Kurdish national unity in numerous cities
ANF - 2019-12-08 08:11The importance of Kurdish national unity was emphasized in demonstrations against Turkey's attacks on Kurdistan in numerous cities and countries. ...
Tired of Iran and Turkey, western powers are getting ready to push back - The National
Thenational - 2019-12-07 17:47KCK issues call for national unity and national congress
ANF - 2019-12-07 15:40KCK called on democratic community organizations, women and youth, legal institutions and personalities, opinion leaders of all faiths, labor organizations, free and democratic press, and all Kurdish friends to support the work for national unity. ...
Preparations underway for National Unity Workshop in Kobane
ANF - 2019-12-07 15:40The Intellectuals Union of Kobane Canton is making preparations for the National Unity Workshop to be attended by Kurdish political circles and activists active in the canton. ...
GOP Senator Bows to White House on Armenian Genocide Measure - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-12-07 02:55Political and General News Events from Dec. 6 | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-12-06 23:22March for Kurdish national unity concluded in Geneva
ANF - 2019-12-06 19:14The Lausanne-Geneva National Unity March participated by over 100 names from four parts of Kurdistan has been concluded in Geneva with a call for national unity. ...
Kurdish parties call for national unity
ANF - 2019-12-06 18:07At a meeting on "national unity" and against the current wave of attacks in Turkey, various Kurdish parties published a joint final declaration and decided to convene a conference. ...
Lausanne-Geneva march for Kurdish national unity on day 2
ANF - 2019-12-06 16:34The second stage of the Lausanne-Geneva march for Kurdish national continues. ...
Tsipras: Turkey Must Understand that Relations Are Built on Mutual Respect and Dialogue - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-12-06 16:21Lawyer Senka Nozica: There is a Threat of Illegal Deportation of Turkish National - Sarajevo Times
Sarajevotimes - 2019-12-06 16:21No indications stabbing in The Hague was terrorist attack - Israel National News
Israelnationalnews - 2019-12-06 09:02Time for National Unity, said marchers in Lausanne
ANF - 2019-12-06 08:59The first stage of the national unity march joined by over 100 personalities from the 4 Kurdistan parts has left Lausanne to reach Geneva today. ...
Are the Syrian Democratic Forces a terror organization as Turkey says? - Israel National News
Israelnationalnews - 2019-12-06 07:56The TikTok chronicles: Global ambitions and security pitfalls
AEI - 2019-12-06 00:12TikTok’s massive growth poses potential privacy and national security issues, but the ongoing national security investigation into the company must balance these against the US desire for the free flow of data across borders. The post The TikTok chronicl ...
Is the United States a secular country?
When you put it all together, does the First Amendment add up to a doctrine of national secularism? Michael McConnell took on this question in a 1992 Bradley Lecture. The post Is the United States a secular country? appeared first on American Enterprise ...
Political and General News Events from Dec. 5 | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-12-05 20:19Mitsotakis: Greece Relies on EU Solidarity to Address Refugee Crisis - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-12-05 19:31Lausanne-Geneva march on the way
ANF - 2019-12-05 16:56Participants of the march called for concrete steps to create Kurdish national unity as the Kurdish people are experiencing massacres, attacks and repression. ...
March for Kurdish national unity from Lausanne to Geneva
ANF - 2019-12-05 14:49The march is participated by over 100 artists, intellectuals, politicians, journalists, writers, academics and representatives of institutions and political parties from four parts of Kurdistan. ...
Trump Versus Macron: Will France Take Back Its Dangerous ISIS Fighters? | The National Interest
Nationalinterest - 2019-12-05 10:45Kevin Williamson on Trump’s ‘idiotically conceived and incompetently executed trade war’
AEI - 2019-12-05 07:08Here are some excerpts from Kevin Williamson’s excellent National Review article “We Are Not Winning the Trade War” on Tariff Man’s “idiotically conceived and incompetently executed trade war”: President Trump proposes to mitigate the effects of his inco ...
Berlin murder: Germany expels two Russian diplomats
BBC - 2019-12-05 02:42The pair are told to leave months after a Georgian national was shot dead in a park. ...
President Barzani Receives Leaders of the Kurdish National Council in Syria
KRG-Spain - 2019-12-05 00:56Erbil, Kurdistan Region, 2 December 2019 The President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani met with the leader of the Kurdish National Council in Syria, Saud Mala, and his accompanying delegation. President Barzani stressed on the importance of unit ...
Political and General News Events from Dec. 4 | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-12-04 21:26KCDK-E: Today is national mourning day for Til Rifat victims
ANF - 2019-12-04 11:04The KCDK-E called to join the two-day national mourning announced by the Autonomous Administration of Northern Syria to protest the massacre of children carried out by the Turkish state in Til Rifat on 2 December. ...
Pardoning Turkeys & Freeing Villains: Abuse of Pardon Power Degrades National Security | WPDE
WPDE - 2019-12-04 10:50Political and General News Events from Dec. 3 | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-12-04 10:39President Barzani Receives Leaders of the Kurdish National Council in Syria
Presidency of Kurdistan - 2019-12-04 02:32Erbil, Kurdistan Region, 2 December 2019 The President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani met with the leader of the Kurdish National Council in Syria, Saud Mala, and his accompanying delegation. President Barzani stressed on the importance of uni ...
Welcome to the Era of Wars Without an End | The National Interest
Nationalinterest - 2019-12-04 00:10Barzani, ENKS Leadership Discuss Syrian Kurdistan
BAS News - 2019-12-03 21:09ERBIL — Kurdistan National Council of Syria (ENKS) leadership met with Kurdish prominent leader and president of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) on Tuesday, discussing the current situation and future of Syrian Kurdistan. Both Barzani and Sao ...
02. December 2019 – National minorities in Germany are call for ratification of ILO Convention 169
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) - 2019-12-03 15:10National unity march from Lausanne to Geneva to start on Saturday
ANF - 2019-12-03 13:46On 5 and 6 December Kurds and their friends will march for 'national unity' from Lausanne to Geneva. ...
National Demo in London against NATO summit
ANF - 2019-12-03 13:46Activists set to march from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace today as NATO summit opens. ...
Pardoning Turkeys & Freeing Villains: Abuse of Pardon Power Degrades National Security | WJLA
WJLA - 2019-12-03 06:28US releases $105m of withheld aid to Lebanon's armed forces - The National
Thenational - 2019-12-03 03:12Turkey crisis threatens to spoil Nato's 70th birthday party - The National
Thenational - 2019-12-02 16:57ENKS Leaders to Meet with Russian Foreign Minister
BAS News - 2019-12-02 16:11ERBIL — A delegation from the Kurdistan National Council of Syria (ENKS) is set to visit Moscow on Thursday where they will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Kawa Azizi, a leading member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDP-S), ...
Kurdistan President Urges Syrian Kurds on Maintaining Unity
BAS News - 2019-12-02 16:11ERBIL — Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Monday received a delegation from the Kurdistan National Council of Syria (ENKS) in Erbil to discuss the latest developments in northern Syrian and the wider region. During the meeting, the Kurdish ...
EU Refugee Chief - from Greece - Says Greece Will Get Help - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-12-02 11:40National Security Action: A Fundamental Disrespect for Our Troops | YubaNet
Yubanet - 2019-12-02 11:18DTK Güzel: The Kurdish people is ready for national unity
DTK Co-Presidency Council member, Mekiye Güzel, said that the people of Kurdistan are ready for unity and that wherever there is an attack against the Kurdish people, people in the 4 parts of Kurdistan respond to this. ...
This Trump Executive Order WIll Harm United States National Forests - InsideHook
Insidehook - 2019-12-02 10:13HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Syria: Civilians Abused in ‘Safe Zones’
Justice for Kurds - 2019-12-02 06:33Summary Executions, Blocked Returns by Turkish-Backed Armed Groups (Beirut, November 27, 2019) – Factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA), a Syrian non-state armed group backed by Turkey in northeast Syria, have summarily executed civilians and failed t ...
Iraq beats UAE 2-0 in Gulf Cup match
Kurdistan24 - 2019-12-01 18:12Iraqi's national football team compete against players from the United Arab Emirates. (Photo: Archive) ...
COMMENTARY: Infighting among members weakens NATO alliance - National | Globalnews.ca
Globalnews - 2019-12-01 16:09Greece Keeps 55,000 Refugees, Migrants in Armed Forces Camps - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-12-01 13:58Turkish presidential spokesman: ′We′re taking care of our own national security′ | News and current affairs from Germany and around the world | DW | 27.11.2019
DW - 2019-11-29 16:13
Syrian National Army denies receiving weapons from Germany – Middle East Monitor
Middleeastmonitor - 2019-11-29 10:24Canada pushed for probe into Khashoggi killing directly with UN human rights chief - National | Globalnews.ca
Globalnews - 2019-11-28 22:28Detained journalist Behrouz Boochani finds freedom: 'The mountains of New Zealand remind me of Kurdistan' - The National
Thenational - 2019-11-28 06:06Political and General News Events from Nov. 25 | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-11-28 01:54Trump War-Crimes Pardons Weaken Military Moral Fiber | National Review
Nationalreview - 2019-11-27 23:13Political and General News Events from Nov. 26 | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-11-27 23:04Political and General News Events from Nov. 27 | National Post
Nationalpost - 2019-11-27 23:03Pardoning Turkeys and Freeing Villains: The President's Abuse of Pardon Power Degrades National Security, by Armstrong Williams | Creators Syndicate
Creators - 2019-11-27 21:22
Pardoning turkeys and abusing pardon power to degrade national security | TheHill
Thehill - 2019-11-27 21:22Iran Protests: Over 7,000 People Arrested So Far
BAS News - 2019-11-27 20:38ERBIL - More than 7,000 people have so far been arrested over the recent nationwide protests against the dramatic increase in the price of petrol. Speaking to reporters, Hossein Naghavi-Hosseini, a spokesperson of the parliament's commission on national ...
Turkey’s gangs forcibly recruit young people in Afrin
ANF - 2019-11-27 17:15The ISIS/al-Nusra gangs banded together by Turkey under the name of Syrian National Army continue their atrocities against civilians in the areas they have invaded. ...
Human Rights Groups Say Greece Making “Prison Camps” for Refugees, Migrants - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-11-27 09:34
Greece’s Foreign Minister Blames Turkey for New Refugee Crisis - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-11-27 00:09
The Troop Shuffle: How Trump Tripped Over His Own Syria Solution | The National Interest
Nationalinterest - 2019-11-26 22:42Kurdish intellectuals and artists call for national unity
ANF - 2019-11-26 09:31Many artists and intellectuals from all four parts of Kurdistan attended a meeting in Cologne to discuss Kurdish national unity. ...
After Christchurch, the world must recognise that white males can be terrorists too - The National
Thenational - 2019-11-26 06:44Turkey will not resume military operations in north-eastern Syria - The National
Thenational - 2019-11-25 17:53Yazidis’ Crisis Continues — Ending It Is a Moral Imperative | National Review
Nationalreview - 2019-11-25 13:31March from National Unity from Lausanne to Geneva on 5-6 December
ANF - 2019-11-25 10:00Representatives of 4 different Kurdistan institutions and parties gathered in Lausanne announced that they will organize a national unity march from Lausanne to Geneva on 5-6 December. ...
Trump Foreign-Policy Doctrine: Deter Enemies without Intervention | National Review
Nationalreview - 2019-11-25 06:29
Nov 16 | The Kurdish National Dream | Weston-Redding-Easton, CT Patch
Patch - 2019-11-24 20:20The West Block – Episode 12, Season 9 - National | Globalnews.ca
Globalnews - 2019-11-24 18:02
Refugees, Migrants Keep Coming, Greece Closing The Door - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-11-24 13:44Turkey Claims It "Neutralized" Five PKK Fighters on Kurdistan Border
BAS News - 2019-11-23 19:26ERBIL - The Turkish army claimed on Saturday that it had "neutralized" five fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region's Duhok province. Turkey's Ministry of National Defense said on Saturday that at least one PKK member was t ...
Turkey to Consider Alternatives if F-35s not Acquired
BAS News - 2019-11-23 12:38ERBIL — Turkey will take into consideration other alternatives if a deal for F-35 fighter jets fails, National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said. "All should be aware that Turkey will have to look for alternatives if F-35s [jets] cannot be acquired for a ...
Curfew in Bogota does not prevent new massive demonstrations
ANF - 2019-11-23 10:26The mayor of the Colombian capital, Bogotá, has imposed a curfew to cover the entire city in response to renewed anti-government protests. Over 250,000 people joined the national strike marches throughout the contry. ...
Iraqi Troops take charge of logistics
Iraqi soldiers took charge of one of the largest divestments of vehicle repair parts while working with American counterparts at the Taji National Depot last month. Task Force (TF) Lincoln Divestment, comprised of soldiers from the Iraq Army (IA) Transpor ...
National View Column: Give Kurds credit for helping hunt al-Baghdadi | Duluth News Tribune
Duluthnewstribune - 2019-11-22 18:47
Greek Migration Minister Says Turkey Using Refugees to Squeeze EU - The National Herald
Thenationalherald - 2019-11-22 14:49Tens of thousands joined national strike in Colombia
Tens of thousands took to the streets in Colombia to join the national strike, amidst heavy security measures and clashes in the capital Bogota. ...
Attorney General Barr rehashes failed arguments in the encryption debate
The Department of Justice’s renewed push for tech companies to grant law enforcement access to encrypted communications ignores the historical record and expert opinions: Weakening strong encryption would compromise Americans’ cybersecurity and national ...
