The UN announced Monday it has withdrawn a number of the UNDOF members working in the Syrian Golan from several posts in the region.

AP quoted Farhan Haq, the deputy official speaker of UN as saying “In light of the deteriorating situation in the region, we have evacuated a number of sites,” adding he doesn’t believe that all sites have been evacuated.

Efforts to bring about a peaceful settlement to the crisis in southeast Ukraine were the main subject of discussion, with particular emphasis on the humanitarian side of the issue.

„They‘re the weakest fighting force there,“ Paul said of the moderate Syrian rebels, pointing to a non-aggression pact with ISIS they reached last week. „Most of the arms we‘ve given to the so-called moderate rebels have wound up in the hands of ISIS because ISIS simply takes it from them, or is given them, or we mistakenly actually give it to some of the radicals. So the intervention in Syria has created a safe haven for ISIS and has made our problem much more difficult.“

Azerbaijani armed forces’ training center in Baku is hosting a course conducted by the NATO Brunssum Joint Mobile Training Team.

The training course’s is titled the “NATO Psychological Operations”, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a message on Sept. 15.

Iran, the principal ally of Islamic State‘s main foes in both Iraq and Syria, was not invited to the Paris meeting. The countries that did attend – while supporting action in Iraq – made no mention at all of Syria, where U.S. diplomats face a far tougher task building an alliance for action.

Mohamed Badie, top leader of Egypt‘s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was sentenced to life in jail along with 14 others on Monday on charges of murder and inciting violence during clashes near Cairo last year.

Using ethical and moral dilemmas for political purposes is unacceptable and against the law, defense minister says; on defense budget battle, Ya‘alon notes ‚security costs money, there are no cheap wars.‘

Ich fürchte, ohne Revolution kommen wir aus diesem EU-Sumpf nicht mehr raus.

US Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL) has called for a lifting of the blockade against Gaza. In a September 8th letter to the Chicago Sun Times, one of the City’s two major daily newspapers, Davis urged an end to the blockade on humanitarian and strategic grounds. Congressman Davis now joins the only two other members of Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison and Rep. Barbara Lee, who have spoken out against the blockade.

Iran‘s Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mohsen Pak Ayeen says that the anti-IS (Islamic State or ISIL) coalition purposefully deceives the world’s public opinion.
Pak Ayeen accused the U.S. of supporting the IS in an interview to Trend on Sept. 15, saying “the Congress of the United States already had approved several financial aids to ISIL and other Takfiri groups.”

“That day is carved in my memory; I relive the scene every day. Me lying on the street unable to move, smeared with blood, conquered with shock and fear, surrounded by wires and dead and dying bodies, I could only hear screams and the thunderous sound of bombs.” Ahmed said with a choked voice while sitting in a wheelchair in AlQuds hospital in Gaza.

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Northern Command says Shiite terror group threatening to send forces across the border in first few days of a third Lebanon war.

The international community must provide further support to the Lebanese Army in its fight against terrorism, French President Francois Hollande said Monday, The Daily Star reported.

Krieg? Das ist doch kein Krieg! Das ist eine humanitäre Mission mit militärischen Elementen!

Islamic State (ISIS) poses „a global threat that knows no borders,“ Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini said after a Paris summit on Iraq Monday, saying „we are all agreed on the need to act together, on the sense of urgency: act quickly, act together“.

Italy is sending arms and aid to Iraq against Islamic State (ISIS) but won‘t take part in air operations against the militants, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini said after a Paris summit Monday.

He warned that the jihadists in ISIS present „a terrible threat against moderate Islam, but also against the West“ and its values.

Ruomioja sagte, dass das bisher zwar noch niemand vorgeschlagen hätte, dass sich aber Parallelen zu diesem jetzt beschlossenen Präzedenzfall gegenüber Russland zeigen und deutete die Notwendigkeit an, dass es an der Zeit ist, auch hier schärfere Massnahmen gegen die israelische Regierung anzudeuten.

(9.September) Im Mai berichteten wir von der ersten Anhörung im NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss, in der die Crème de la Crème der deutschen Verfassungsrichter das Parlament belehrte: “Die gesamte deutsche Auslandsaufklärung ist rechtswidrig.” Passiert ist seitdem… nichts.

(4.September) Der frühere Verfassungsgerichtspräsident Hans-Jürgen Papier sagt, dass der BND, der für die Spionage im Ausland zuständig ist, nicht beliebig Ausländer abhören darf. Der Bundesregierung wirft er vor, seit 15 Jahren ein entsprechendes Karlsruher Urteil zu ignorieren.

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He said that talk of an independent Saudi role is a joke, because Saudi Arabia is subservient to the United States and its only role is to implement policies and pay money.

Mikdad stressed that the battle which Syria has been waging for three years is all about the refusal of President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian people to accept any interference or violation of Syria’s sovereignty.

In a statement, which SANA got a copy of, the Foreign Ministry source added that Syria, “which has always asserted its respect of the UN mission as part of its international obligations, noticed that the two abduction cases which the Filipino battalion faced for the first time a year ago, and recently the Fijian force, were carried out with the direct complicity and incitement of Qatar.”

The source stressed that Qatar has ties with Jabhat al-Nusra- an offshoot of al-Qaeda- in terms of funding and arming the terrorist organization, ties, the source said, “are no longer unknown to the UN and the international community.”

“While stressing that the kidnapping of UNDOF personnel is an unforgivable crime, Syria affirms that Jabhat al-Nusra criminals wouldn’t have been able to commit such acts had they not been directly emboldened by Qatar as it has showed willingness to spend millions of dollars under the pretext of it making efforts to release the abducted UN personnel,” the source added.

Weder Regierungen wie die österreichische noch heimische Medien kommen auf die Idee, das Grundübel anzugehen: dass die USA Terror kreiern, instrumentalisieren, anleiten, um andere Regierungen zu stürzen und zugleich einen Vorwand für Interventionen zu haben. Darauf weist auch Gladio-Experte Daniele Ganser im als Video eingebundenen Ausschnitt aus einer Talkshow hin. Ganser sagt, dass Obama jüngst in einer Rede angekündigt hat, die territoriale Integrität Syriens offen zu verletzen. Nach dem Motto „ihr seid ja auch gegen den IS-Terror, wir bombardieren die Terroristen bei euch“, ohne Mandat des UN-Sicherheitsrates, ohne Syrien zu fragen.