Robert Fisk – The Independent Exactly 10 years ago, four United Nations peacekeepers were blown to pieces in southern Lebanon. They were a Canadian, a Chinese, a Finn and an Austrian. Amid the crash of Israeli shellfire around his tiny concrete blockhouse, and perhaps realizing that he may not survive, ...
Even as it launches waves of terrorist attacks around the globe, ISIL is quietly preparing its followers for the eventual collapse of the ‘caliphate’ it proclaimed with great fanfare two years ago, The Washington Post reported. In public messages and in recent actions in Syria, the group’s leaders are acknowledging ...
