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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.

Staaten, die mit Waffen handeln, tragen Mitverantwortung an der Ausbreitung des IS. Diesen Vorwurf erhebt Amnesty International. Auch Deutschlands Aktivitäten seien ein Lehrbeispiel dafür, wie man „Gräueltaten im großen Stil befördert“.

Kristin Helberg stellt in der Hauptnachrichtensendung des Zweiten klar, wer als Feind zu gelten hat und wer nicht: »Das Hauptproblem ist tatsächlich der Luftkrieg des Assad-Regimes gegen Zivilisten oder gegen Rebellengruppen.« Assad bombardiere »weite Teile des Landes«, »überall dort, wo er die Kontrolle verloren hat«. »Er schießt ja gezielt Raketen auf Infrastruktur, auf Krankenhäuser, Marktplätze, mit sehr vielen toten Zivilisten. Und das ist aus Sicht der Syrer der Hauptfeind aktuell.«

(29.11.2015) The Prince is not alone on this one: he joins a chorus of voices making similar claims. In the US President Obama, Al Gore, and the democratic presidential hopefuls Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders have all talked of a link between climate change and the Syria conflict, Sanders going so far as to argue that climate change is “directly related to the growth of terrorism”.

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The General Assembly Adopts the following outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda:

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development

(27.9.2015) Mit den überwiegend auf 2030 ausgestellten Zielen soll die überfällige Transformation der Volkswirtschaften in Richtung einer deutlich nachhaltigeren Entwicklung weltweit kräftig vorangetrieben werden. Klimawandel, Verlust von Biodiversität, Armut, Hunger und ein mit einem hohen Ressourcenverbrauch verbundenes Wirtschaften zeigen, dass weltweit umgesteuert werden muss.

Die UN-Klimakonferenz in Paris 2015 (englisch United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21st Conference of the Parties, kurz COP 21) findet als 21. UN-Klimakonferenz und gleichzeitig 11. Treffen zum Kyoto-Protokoll (englisch 11th Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, kurz CMP 11) vom 30. November bis 11. Dezember 2015 in Paris (Frankreich) statt. Dieser Konferenz wird eine zentrale Bedeutung zugemessen, da hier eine neue internationale Klimaschutz-Vereinbarung in Nachfolge des Kyoto-Protokolls verabschiedet werden soll.

(28.11.2015) Die Verhandler machen sich auf den Weg. Ab Montag geht es in Paris um das wichtigste Thema auf der Erde: Den Klimaschutz.

Anthropology professor Wade Davis wants to declare war on global warming, comparing the battle against CO2 to military conflict in WW2.

Writing in The Globe and Mail, based in Toronto, Canada;

… Why have we not fully mobilized and declared war on global warming?

Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold closed-door discussions on Turkish military action in Syria and Iraq, diplomats said on Monday, in the latest sign of increasing tensions between Moscow and Ankara.

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A Syrian opposition meeting due to begin in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday marks the most serious effort yet to unify President Bashar al-Assad‘s fragmented enemies, a step seen as vital to peace talks sought by world powers but which has riled Iran.

(6.10.2015) U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the world’s second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the terror group’s propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has learned.