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An airstrike by the US-led coalition aimed at Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq has killed nine Iraqi soldiers, according to Iraq’s Defence Minister.
The “friendly fire” incident happened as Iraqi troops were fighting the extremists just outside the IS stronghold of Fallujah on Friday.
The US military had said the incident may have killed “up to 10 soldiers”, adding that the strikes were in response to requests and information provided by Iraqi security forces on the ground near the city.

Turkey’s President  Erdogan has become, internationally speaking, the proverbial loose cannon on deck. No one knows which way he will roll, but everyone has become absolutely certain that the results will be very, very damaging.

 
Turkey’s duplicity threatens the entire region
 
by Philip Giraldi

Hammad Sheva agreed to withdraw his visa application to avoid a 5-year ban [Facebook/Hammad Sheva]

By: Al-Araby al-Jadeed staff

A Jordanian national with a valid Visa was turned back at a US airport after being interrogated and detained, days after Donald Trump’s call for banning Muslims from entering US.

Image: Richard White, 62, sprayed a TSA agents at a New Orleans airport with wasp spray and then cut another female supervisor with a machete before he was shot three times by a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputy. Frequent violence carried on by non-Muslims is often not labeled terrorism

 
by Roger Tucker

Hana insists on embracing life, even within the confines of war-torn and besieged Gaza.

Unfolding now is a multidimensional chess game comprising centuries-old animosities, petrodollars, pipelines, a neo-Ottoman sultanate, plans for balkanizing the Mid East into manageable ethnic states, Israeli energy plans and oligarchs, Neoconservatives, the U.S. military-industrial complex, Daesh-ISIS, NATO, the EU, Kurdistan, Ukraine and a gaggle of nation states.

 
 
Originally appeared at The Saker
by Tom Mysiewicz

by Pepe Escobar
(Sputnik News) – Nobody needs to read Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski’s 1997 opus to know US foreign policy revolves around one single overarching theme: prevent – by all means necessary – the emergence of a power, or powers, capable of constraining Washington’s unilateral swagger, not only in Eurasia but across the world.