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Netanyahu vows that Israel will never give up Golan Heights

By NEC-SE on April 28, 2016 • ( 1 Comment )

“In a lead-up to the Geneva talks, representatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signaled that they wanted the discussions to include a possible return of the region.” Netanyahu was having none of […]

Regional conflicts spill into Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps

By NEC-SE on April 28, 2016 • ( 1 Comment )

“The situation is particularly worrisome right now at the Ain al-Hilweh camp, where Fatah security official Gen. Fathi Zeidan was assassinated April 12. Another member of the secular Fatah movement was killed […]

AEI link analysis of the transfer of 9M133 Kornet Launchers from KRG to ISIS

By NEC-SE on April 28, 2016 • ( 4 Comments )

Michael Rubin, who writes for the American Enterprise Inistitute (AEI), is a former Pentagon official whose major research areas are the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and diplomacy. Rubin instructs senior military officers […]

Kurdish official calls defeating ISIS ‘a huge mistake’

By NEC-SE on April 27, 2016 • ( 10 Comments )

The Article by the American Enterprise Institute states: “So, an up-and-coming official in Barzani’s political party believes that fighting Shi‘ites should trump defeating the Islamic State? The Obama administration’s response? Give the […]

Turkeys war against the PKK/Russian Ally

By NEC-SE on April 27, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )

Today in Bursa, in the Aegian district 300 kilometers from Ankara, a female suicide bomber detonated her suicide vest injuring 13 civilians, outside of the city’s main mosque. The bombing is being […]

Pope Francis reneges on offer to take in Christian refugees

By NEC-SE on April 23, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

The article states:  Roula and Malek Abo, who had been housed in a refugee camp on Lesbos, said they thanked their lucky stars when they found out the Vatican had selected them […]

Human Rights Watch: Christian Demonstration Blocked Sought to Protest Kurdish Land “Encroachment”

By NEC-SE on April 23, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Human Rights Watch (HRW) obtained official documents dating to 1992 and 1994 ordering an end to Kurdish encroachments on Christian land in Kashkawa and Rabitki, two villages in Nahle Valley. Paul Khashaba, […]

Israel Providing Intelligence to Jordan, Egypt in Fight Against ISIS

By NEC-SE on April 22, 2016 • ( 1 Comment )

JNS.org – Israel is providing intelligence assistance to Jordan and Egypt in the fight against the Islamic State terror group, a senior Israeli military officer said on Wednesday. “Egypt fights the Islamic […]

Will Congress change its stance on the Assyrian genocide After the Destruction of Nineveh Gates?

By NEC-SE on April 21, 2016 • ( 5 Comments )

Unconfirmed reports of the destruction of Nineveh’s iconic gates began to emerge late last week but were just confirmed by Michael Danti, professor of archaeology at Boston University and co-director of the?Cultural […]

Really, Did Billions of U.S. Taxpayer Dollars and 4,497 U.S. Combat Deaths Bring Democracy to Iraq?

By NEC-SE on April 19, 2016 • ( 13 Comments )

On 14 APR 16 Muslim Sunni Kurdish security forces (Asayesh), the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) equivalent of the FBI, imposed a blockade on four Assyrian Christian villages in the Nahla district in […]

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