On the 17th of July, 2014, a commercial airliner chartered by Malaysian Airlines was shot down suddenly and inadvertently by an unknown operator from a Russian Buk mobile missile launch system. The missile was designed to intercept armored aircraft. The weapon exploded about 20 meters from its mistaken target, the commercial plane, and bombarded it… Read more »
On a hazy December day in 2011, as the United States ceded all combat duties to Iraqi security and defense forces, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta thanked Iraqis in a ceremony in Baghdad for their “loyalty to the future of Iraq” and heralded the “independent, free and sovereign Iraq.” This was expected to be the… Read more »
Reuters / Jason Reed In last night’s primetime speech, President Barack Obama articulated to Americans and the world that the United States plans to shed its passive stance toward the Syrian conflict and launch airstrikes in defense of Syria’s civilians. On that same day, in a not-so-pleasant and desolate Syrian community, a civilian holdout ought… Read more »