“Yemen, Yemen, make us proud”…by making us all poorer. And helping Putin and his allies.

Jan 20, 2024 by

by Paul Goodman, Conservative Home: In 2003, Britain sent ground troops into Iraq.  A hundred and seventy-nine of our troops were killed, up to a million Iraqis may have died, ISIS rose up from the ashes of the conflict, and Iraq moved...

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Hardship of Life

Oct 25, 2021 by

by Archbishop Cranmer: Meet Munzir al-Nazzal and his five-year-old son Mustafa. They live in Reyhanli, in the Turkish province of Hatay, at the border with Syria. Munzir lost his right leg as he walked through a bazaar in Idlib, and out...

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Syria: Allah’s Armageddon. Let’s not make it our own

Dec 29, 2018 by

by Jules Gomes, Frontpage Magazine: “But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make,” says soldier Williams in Shakespeare’s Henry V, before the Battle of Agincourt. In the face of opposition from...

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Syria Was Never a Just War

Dec 28, 2018 by

by Jules Gomes, Frontpage Magazine: The West should fight wars based on the principles of Augustine, not Mohammed. “Moral factors cannot be ignored in war . . . Moral elements are among the most important in war,” wrote Prussian military...

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In Syria, schools welcome children frozen out of education by jihadis

Oct 1, 2018 by

by Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye: The children of Syria’s Sinjar will remember their return to school this September for the rest of their lives. Education ceased totally when this traumatised market town in northern Idlib province was...

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Christians in Iraq and Syria still at risk in Kurdish-controlled areas after centuries of persecution

Jul 31, 2018 by

from Global Christian News: The Kurds have been maligned and subjugated throughout their history, but the perception that Christians in Iraq and Syria today live safely as equal citizens in Kurdish-controlled areas is a myth. Many...

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