Iraqi citizens fed up with corruption, unemployment and lack of basic necessities continue months of protests, as violence intensifies. For several months, Iraqis in Baghdad and several other Southern cities have been protesting lack of services and what is viewed as rampant corruption. Roughly 80% of the government’s […]
Representatives from the pair announced on Thursday that a joint venture between Google’s Artificial Intelligence software and NASA’s Kepler space telescope has resulted in an exciting, record-breaking discovery. Prior to Thursday, our own solar system was home to the highest number of known orbital planets, but after this […]
18 Sep 17 – Iraqi Kurdistan Independence vote is set for 25 September, but it has several critics. Iraqi Kurds in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan are set to engage in a highly controversial independence referendum on September 25th. Both the Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, and the […]
30 July 2017 – The United States, along with their South Korean and Japanese allies have responded to the latest North Korean provocation with a standoff flyover of B-1 bombers and a successful test of the THAAD (Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense). The South Korean-based THAAD system has been […]
What happened? On Saturday evening Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, was released from the custody of the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion in Zintan. So what? Al-Islam Qaddafi is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) along with his deceased father, the former dictator, accused of war crimes including the killing […]
