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U.S. House to Vote on TRIA Extension
As the December 31st expiration of TRIA moves closer, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced yesterday that next week the House will vote on proposed legislation to ensure TRIA…
The Right Coast
ISIS Meets Its Match at an Iraqi Town When Christian Militia Shows Up to Teach Them Who s Boss
The inhabitants of the predominantly Christian Bakufa formed a village militia, after fighting side-by-side with Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to push ISIS from their hamlet.via www.ijreview.com
The Right Coast
Islamic State opening front in North Africa – Washington Times
In its war to create a caliphate across Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State is opening a front in North Africa, where affiliated militants are wreaking havoc in eastern Libya…
The Right Coast
Israel on Edge After Five Are Killed in Attack on Synagogue – NYTimes.com
JERUSALEM Two Palestinians armed with a gun, knives and axes stormed a synagogue complex in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of West Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and killed four men in…
Capital Thinking
Congress Concentrates on ISIL, Ebola and FY 2015 Funding
Iraq/Syria Crises The Pentagon said last Monday the Obama Administration will not send an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq until Congress approves its $5.6 billion request to pay for the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
ISIS sells kidnapped girls to slavery
By John Kang
From the NYT:KHANKE, Iraq — The 15-year-old girl, crying and terrified, refused to release her grip on her sister’s hand. Days earlier, Islamic State fighters had torn the girls from…
Cruise Law News
Are Jihadists Sailing on Cruise Ships?
By Jim Walker
The Associated Press (AP) reports that jihadi fighters are increasingly buying tickets on cruise ships to join extremists in battle zones in Syria and Iraq. The AP states that jihadists…
The Right Coast
ISIS militants kill 50 tribesmen, women and children, officials say | Fox News
BAGHDAD Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi tribesmen, women and children Sunday, officials said, the latest mass slaying by militants who have killed…
The Right Coast
Dutch biker gang grabs rifles, joins Kurds in fight against ISIS | Fox News
Members of a massive Dutch motorcycle gang, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, recently joined Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State in Iraq, vowing to exterminate the rodents. via www.foxnews.comBetter keep your…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Young Women Fighting ISIS
By John Kang
From the New Republic: “I see the Syrian revolution as not only a popular revolution of the people but also as a revolution of the woman, therefore I see myself as…