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“Turkey will have a permanent military base in the Bashiqa region of Mosul as the Turkish forces in the region training the Peshmerga forces have been reinforced,” the daily continues, adding that “the deal regarding the base was signed between Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani and Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu, during the latter’s visit to northern Iraq on Nov. 4.”

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Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani will visit Turkey on Dec. 9 to discuss coordination in the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as well as the recent rift between Turkey and Iraq over the deployment of Turkish forces on Iraqi soil.

A sensible foreign policy would have been to reduce Turkey’s dependence on Russia, which supplies no less than 54 percent of its natural gas, and to diversify its export markets given that the political problems between the two countries had the potential to boil over.

The aircraft were placed on specially prepared parking near new MiG-29 fighters. Soon, the pilots will start scheduled flights.

The Caspian Flotilla ship detachment, composed of small-sized missile ships Grad Sviyazhsk, Uglich and Veliky Ustyug, continues to perform the training mission in the Caspian Sea.

During the 7-day cruise, the small-sized missile ships have travelled about 300 nautical miles, the crews went through more than 30 drills, including damage control, joint maneuvering with different formations – line of bearing, wake, break and also the board to board technique of POL reception from the fuel tanker.

Verteidigungsminister Sergej Schoigu berichtete Präsident Wladimir Putin persönlich über die Attacke. Die Marschflugkörper des Typs Kalibr seien erstmals von U-Boot „Rostow na Donu“ abgefeuert worden, sagte Schoigu. Nach seinen Angaben wurden in der syrischen Provinz Rakka zwei große Terroristenbasen getroffen.

Am Sonntag erklärte der irakische Regierungschef Haider al-Abadi, dass sich die irakischen Behörden das Recht vorbehalten, beliebige Gegenschritte vorzunehmen. Unter anderem sollte auch der Weltsicherheitsrat eingeschaltet werden, wenn die türkischen Truppen den Irak binnen 48 Stunden nicht verlassen.

Am Montag sagte er, die Türkei habe lediglich noch 24 Stunden, bis diese Frage dem UN-Sicherheitsrat zur Erörterung vorgelegt wird.

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(10.5.2012) The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.”

The course, first reported by Danger Room last month and held at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College, has since been canceled by the Pentagon brass. It’s only now, however, that the details of the class have come to light. Danger Room received hundreds of pages of course material and reference documents from a source familiar with the contents of the class.

(23.9.2011) FOLLOWING MONTHS OF denials, the FBI is now promising a “comprehensive review of all training and reference materials” after Danger Room revealed a series of Bureau presentations that tarred average Muslims as “radical” and “violent.”

But untangling the Islamophobic thread woven into the FBI’s counterterrorism training culture won’t be easy. In addition to inflammatory seminars which likened Islam to the Death Star and Mohammed to a “cult leader,” Danger Room has obtained more material showing just how wide the anti-Islam meme has spread throughout the Bureau.

(14.9.2011) The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.”

At the Bureau’s training ground in Quantico, Virginia, agents are shown a chart contending that the more “devout” a Muslim, the more likely he is to be “violent.” Those destructive tendencies cannot be reversed, an FBI instructional presentation adds: “Any war against non-believers is justified” under Muslim law; a “moderating process cannot happen if the Koran continues to be regarded as the unalterable word of Allah.”

Donald Trump has rejected criticism that his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US is un-American as critics compared him to Adolf Hitler.

The Republican presidential candidate said what he is proposing is „no different“ to the actions of president Franklin Roosevelt, „who was highly respected by all“ despite his wartime measures that included putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps in the US.

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„Oh, my goodness,“ said Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. „One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I‘m back in the 1930s.“

In a day marked heavily by strong anti-Muslim sentiment from Donald Trump, Bill O’Reilly said tonight, “There really isn’t any evidence that Muslims are being mistreated in the USA.”

The son of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has denied Russian allegations that he and his family were profiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq.