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BAGHDAD -- A U.N. report released Tuesday says at least 18,802 civilians in Iraq were killed and another 36,245 wounded between Jan. 1, 2014 and Oct. 31, 2015.The reports calls the civilian death toll staggering and details killings by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS including by shooting, beheading, bulldozing, burning alive and throwing people off of buildings.The report also said ISIS is believed to currently be holding approximately 3,500 people captive as slaves. yeezy foam Yazidi villagers describe ISIS atrocities 03:02 Those being held are predominantly women salomon gtx and children and come primarily from the Yezidi community, but a number are also from other ethnic and religious minority communities, said the report, issued jointly by the U.N. s Assistance Mission for Iraq and the global body s human rights office.It said the crimes committed by ISIS may in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes a airmaxplus gainst humanity, and possibly genocide. ISIS swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014 plunging the country into its worst political and security crisis since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011. That civilians are caught in the crosshairs of ISIS is not new, but the U.N. human rights agency report released Tuesday says that the staggering number of civilians who died Jjrw Egypt s new PM claims more powers from military
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria s on-the-ground offensive in northern Iraq this month has been aided, analysts say, by an unprecedented social media blitz. Jihadi groups using adidas campus shoes Twitter and other social adidas samba og platforms is nothing new. During its 2013 attack on Kenya s Westgate mall, th adidas samba damen e Somali militant group al-Shabab mixed tweets with gunshots. Observers have long warned about the growth of social media as powerful recruitment tools for terrorists.What makes the ISIS social campaign stand out, analysts say, is its scale and sophistication. I think it was obvious very early on that they launched their offensive with a social media campaign well planned in advance. This wasn t an afterthought. This wasn t something that they made up as they went along, said John Little, who monitors national security, conflicts and technology at Blogs of War. ISIS posts photos claiming mass killing of Iraqi soldiers 02:30 The coordinated campaign has featured what appears to be disciplined, from-the-top-down message control designed to simulate organic grass-roots activity. Complete with an app and highly orchestrated hashtag pushes, the group s social media strategy mirrors that of a marketing company building buzz around a new product. Big corporations wish they were as good at this as ISIS is, said J.M. Ber Xzdn Mass Protests Slated For Mexico
4809186They re off and running.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton s high-profi stanley cups le diplomatic shock troops have now been named and are in place, flying hither and yon, chairing meetings and doing whatever else is necessary to start solvin stanley becher g the biggest foreign policy headaches the Obama administration faces.Ambassador Stephen Bosworth heads for meetings in Asia early next week with the North Korea portfolio passed to him by Ambassador Christopher Hill. Hill, slated to become ambassador to Iraq, has had two years of talking with the North Koreans under the so-called six-party framework but this week Clinton gave the job to Bosworth, a former ambassador to South Korea and currently the head of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.Bosworth travels in the coming week to Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and Moscow for consultations on getting the process back on track now that the new administration in Washington is up and running. Pyongyang is not on the announced set of stops but Bosworth, speaking to reporters when he was named to the post, said Obviously, we plan to engage with them. The question is whether it is on this trip. As a private citizen, Bosworth recently paid a visit to North Korea and he said it was his impression that the North Korean leadership was inclined to continue the dialogue with Washington. They see the benefits to them of continued engagement. Also named this week was Ambassador Dennis Ross stanley termosy who will head the effort to find ways to make ne
Klxy A harmless asteroid will whiz past Earth Saturday. Here s how to spot it
BAGHDAD -- A U.N. report released Tuesday says at least 18,802 civilians in Iraq were killed and another 36,245 wounded between Jan. 1, 2014 and Oct. 31, 2015.The reports calls the civilian death toll staggering and details killings by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS including by shooting, beheading, bulldozing, burning alive and throwing people off of buildings.The report also said ISIS is believed to currently be holding approximately 3,500 people captive as slaves. yeezy foam Yazidi villagers describe ISIS atrocities 03:02 Those being held are predominantly women salomon gtx and children and come primarily from the Yezidi community, but a number are also from other ethnic and religious minority communities, said the report, issued jointly by the U.N. s Assistance Mission for Iraq and the global body s human rights office.It said the crimes committed by ISIS may in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes a airmaxplus gainst humanity, and possibly genocide. ISIS swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014 plunging the country into its worst political and security crisis since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011. That civilians are caught in the crosshairs of ISIS is not new, but the U.N. human rights agency report released Tuesday says that the staggering number of civilians who died Jjrw Egypt s new PM claims more powers from military
Iran test-fired the Shahab-3 missile Saturday, Tehran television reported, the second trial in two years for the medium-range weapon capable of stanley quencher reaching Israel or U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.The state broadcas stanley cup t said the test was in line with Iran s policy of strengthening its defense capability on the basis of the principle of deterrence. This test is not in any way a threat to another country, it quoted an unidentified military source as saying.The Defense Ministry refused to comment on the report.In Israel, Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh expressed concern Saturday about the missile test because Iran actively and relentlessly undermines the peace process through various terrorist organizations. When such a regime has a long-range capacity combined with a tremendous effort to combine it with nuclear projects, its of great concern to Israel, Sneh told The Associated Press. He added, without giving details, that Israel is prepared to forestall the dangers of Iran s weapons technology.The Clinton administration has said missile threats from states of concern like Iran and North Korea necessitate the d stanley cup evelopment of a controversial, multibillion dollar national anti-missile defense system.In Washington, U.S. officials said Saturday that Iran s reported test-firing of a medium-range missile underscores long-standing concerns about the risk of weapons proliferation in the Persian Gulf region.The officials said Iran s effort to boost its missile capabilities t
