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ISIS enters its final days

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Henry Kissinger: Destroying ISIS Could Create ‘Radical Iranian Empire’

Former Secretary of State and former National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger speaks at the Vietnam War Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 26, 2016. (AP/Nick Ut)
Destroying the Islamic State militant group could lead to an “Iranian radical empire,” former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned.
The 94-year-old former senior diplomat made the remarks in an article titled ’Chaos and order in a changing world’.

Saudi Arabia’s Ethnic Cleansing Of Shia Minority Absent From Western Media

The town of Al-Awamiya in the eastern Qatif province of Saudi Arabia resembles scenes from a war zone.
While western mainstream media focuses on protests supported and funded by American NGOs in Venezuela, there is a true tragedy with irreversible consequences that is being promulgated by the regime of Saudi Arabia, it is an ethnic cleansing that the media refuses to cover.  Far from being a secretive story, the regime is boasting of its crimes under the guise of ‘fighting terrorism’ and no western government has so much as batted an eyelid.

Iran’s Foreign Minister: Saudi Arabia Involved In 94% Of Worldwide Terrorist Attacks

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pauses while listening to a translation of his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault during their joint press conference in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 31, 2017.(AP/Vahid Salemi)
“We don’t see the situation in our region as a winning or losing battle. It’s a situation where the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq has led everybody to lose. Because we believe that the situation in today’s world is so interconnected that we cannot have winners and losers; we either win together or lose together,” Zarif told The National Interest.

Iraqi forces prematurely declare ‘mission accomplished’ against ISIS

Iraqi forces in Mosul are rapidly gaining territory from ISIS after months of stalemate starting in 2016.
In the last three months, ISIS positions have been rapidly deteriorating in northern Iraq, although this has been accomplished at a very high cost in respect of the civilian death toll as well as the rapid destruction of both historic sites and modern infrastructure.