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Winning battle of hearts, MJ Akbar heads to Karbala in Iraq

Edit The Times of India 22 Aug 2016
The city, about 100 kms from Baghdad, is best known as the location of the ancient Battle of Karbala that has a central place in Shia history and tradition, commemorated every year during Muharram. Believed to be a holy city for Muslims, Karbala is revered as the site of the death of Shia martyr Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad....

Saudi crimes aimed at protecting US interests in Mideast: Expert

Edit Press TV 22 Aug 2016
On another level and that is even more dangerous, they are trying to fuel a kind of sectarian tension between Sunnis and Shias to say that the Arabs are Sunnis and the Iranians are Shias and therefore the Arabs must stand in solidarity in a kind of sectarian confessional way against the Shias in Iran and that is a very dangerous incitement of violence and incitement of civil wars and destruction in the Arab world, first....

The Stolen War

Edit The New Republic 22 Aug 2016
The Iraqi firm would, in turn, use the payment to make kickbacks to various senior politicians—mostly Shias from Maliki’s ruling Dawa Party, but also a few Kurdish officials who needed to give their approval before an energy project could be built in their territory. “The Shias who ran the company didn’t know anything about the project—they were just eager beavers who wanted to get rich,” the businessman says....

Growing up in Saskatoon now part of filmmaker's work

Edit CBC 22 Aug 2016
Now living in Toronto and working on graphic novel projects, Howie Shia said Saskatoon is influencing his work more than ever before ... ....

Iraqi commander rejects claim on assassination plot against Saudi envoy

Edit Press TV 22 Aug 2016
The top Iraqi military figure implied that such reports are conspiracies to undermine his country’s security personnel ... This is not the first time that Saudi Arabia and pro-Riyadh media outlets have taken measures aimed at slandering the Shia volunteer forces in Iraq ... Numerous attempts by Saudi Arabian officials to undermine the Shia forces have raised suspicions about ties between Riyadh and Daesh ... (Photo by AFP) ... ....

Police thwart child bomber attack in Iraq’s Kirkuk

Edit Press TV 22 Aug 2016
A Kurdish YouTube channel has released footage purportedly showing security forces neutralizing an explosive belt strapped to a young boy in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk ... After the bomb is successfully removed the boy is arrested and taken away in a police car ... The militants have been committing vicious crimes against all ethnic and religious communities in Iraq, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians. ....

Watch: Iraq police detain 12-yr-old ISIS bomber, strip suicide vest off his body

Edit Deccan Chronicle 22 Aug 2016
Kirkuk, Baghdad. An ISIS child suicide bomber was stripped off his explosive vest and detained by Iraqi officials, moments before it was detonated. The incident was captured on camera by an unidentified person ... The video footage shows Iraqi officials taking off the boy's clothes and trying to remove his suicide vest ... Police believe that the boy was told by ISIS terrorists to blow up near a Shia mosque ... ....

Taylor Halverson: Learn by doing, not just by reading and listening

Edit Deseret News 22 Aug 2016
Editor's note. This is based on a post on the author's website. The human body, though exquisitely complex, is perfectly designed for learning, lots of learning. All day, every day, we are learning. We receive innumerable inputs from within and outside our body through a wide variety of senses ... These people were not reading books and listening to experts ... And check out the etymology of the word hand and related words at eatonhand.com ... ....

Daesh losing main bastion in Iraq: Pundit

Edit Press TV 22 Aug 2016
Press TV has interviewed Zayd al-Isa, a Middle East expert from London, and Nabil Mikhail, a professor at the George Washington University, to discuss Iraqi pro-government forces’ push to retake Mosul from Daesh militants ... The militants have been committing vicious crimes against all ethnic and religious communities in the Arab country, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians. ....

Iraq stops would-be child bomber for ISIS

Edit CNN 22 Aug 2016
(CNN)Dramatic video has emerged of Iraqi police stripping an explosive belt from a child suspected in a suicide bombing attempt for ISIS. The footage appears to show security personnel restrain a visibly upset boy while they carefully cut the belt from the youth's torso in Kirkuk ... "He was captured before he reached his destination, which was a Shia mosque," Najmaldin Karim, the governor of Kirkuk Governorate, told CNN ... Read More ... ....

Ramen is displacing tobacco as most popular US prison currency, study finds

Edit The Guardian 22 Aug 2016
Cost-cutting measures by private facilities have led to subpar food quality and fewer meals, making noodles a commodity that trades well above its value. Ramen noodles are overtaking tobacco as the most popular currency in US prisons, according a new study released on Monday ... “Soup is money in here ... The book also includes the favorite ramen recipes of celebrities such as Shia LeBeouf and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash ... Related ... ....

Turkey Wedding Bombing Seen as Latest ISIS Attempt to Sow Division

Edit Time Magazine 22 Aug 2016
The wedding of Besna and Nurettin Akdogan was no small affair. as the celebrations were winding down, the streets were still packed with hundreds of guests ... Read More ... Read More ... Analysts note that ISIS’ predecessor, al-Qaeda in Iraq, similarly did not take credit for several attacks carried out in 2005, sparking tensions and retribution attacks between the country’s Sunni and Shia populations ... ....

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Are Both Missing a Syria Plan

Edit The Daily Beast 22 Aug 2016
By Linda Qiu and Katie Sanders. News shows were ground zero for campaign spin Sunday ... John McCain (R-AZ). She said Trump’s “regret” was more general ... Pace’s statement rates Mostly True ... Thank You! ... Most of the rebels are Sunni Muslim, backed by Sunni countries, like Turkey and Saudi Arabia, as well as Russia, while Assad’s security forces belong to the minority Alawite sect, aided by Shia regimes like Iran and Iraq ... READ THIS LIST. 1 ... ....
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