Thousands of young people have made their way in the past few years from the US and Europe to fight or become brides of fighters in countries, Iraq and Syria, they knew nothing about. Later, estranged western youth, fed up with American crimes Vietnam and European acquiescence to them,..…

The military and political failure in Iraq, the increasing rejection of the “European project” by the peoples concerned, the outbreaks of violence (as occurred in November 2005 in the suburbs of France), and many other phenomena that have become daily occurrences are evidence of this. ..…

One sidebar looks at European public opinion toward the surge in refugees from countries like Iraq and Syria; another summarizes trends in government policies toward refugees and migration in individual countries and the EU as a whole. ..…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson The US secretary of state has called on the leader of Iraq's Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, to delay referendum on independence from the mainland slated for next month.. ..…

Over half of the asylum-seekers came from the Muslim-majority countries of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. While many of the government incidents involved long-standing tensions between religious communities and European governments, some were focused on this new, incoming population. . ..…

More recently, European countries have seen their immigrant shares jump by 1 percentage point in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries entered Continent in 2015. ..…

In fact, France has accepted relatively few asylum-seekers from Syria and Iraq, and rejects their applications at nearly three times the rate of other European nations. ..…

The New York-based group said the figure shows drastic rise from the approximately 12,000 foreign militants it had recorded around the time the insurgents entered Iraq... Iraq and Syria is global, 000 individuals have arrived from European countries and some 4,700 from former..…

Many say Western governments, including those in Europe, are to blame for their lax control over the past years on the movement of their nationals into Syria and Iraq, saying these European militants could pose security risks upon their return home.     . ..…

Kull traces the roots of the perceptual breakdown to the trauma of the Sept. 11 attacks, when Bush rallied the country with what he describes as 'near-pitch-perfect leadership' in response to an unprecedented attack on continental U.S. soil with an continuing danger of more. . When Bush later turned..…

Secretary-General Kofi Annan thought that conflict, and not Iraq, represented the most pressing security threat in the Middle East. Powell joined Russia, the European Union and Annan in crafting a Mideast peace initiative, which has accomplished little but eased tensions with allies. . ..…

In a joint statement, the three nations said they did not intend to send troops to Iraq and would not contribute more money. France and Germany are part of the European Union, which has pledged $234 million. . ..…

Small wonder that most modern Islamist political movements, from the Muslim Brotherhood founded in Egypt in 1928, to Lebanon’s Shia militia-cum-party Hezbollah, to the Salafi-jihadist State of the Islamic Caliphate that is now beheading people in Syria and Iraq, have portrayed themselves as..…

Yet on a continent whose people have suffered under colonialism, the charge that they are subject to an international standard of justice that no one else actively faces—not in Afghanistan or Iraq, not in Sri Lanka or Israel—resonates among African leaders and some of their constituents. And..…

He is now the fourth president in a row to wage war in Iraq. . The stakes for the U.S. are high. ISIS threatens the entire state system that European and American imperialism have overseen since the carve-up of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War. ..…

Despite the importance of Asia, and tensions recent years between U.S and many European allies over Iraq war and other issues, that U.S and Western Europe should maintain relationship. ..…