LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jack Crowe Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s sister said his suicide attack was motivated by a desire to seek revenge for U.S. airstrikes in Syria. Abedi’s sister, Jomana Abedi, described her brother as kind and loving and said she believes he wanted to avenge perceived injustices against Muslims. “I think he…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Saagar Enjeti Chaos erupted after the U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an Islamic State training camp in Afghanistan Thursday, local villagers told The Guardian. The bomb was dropped on Achin district in Nangarhar province, the long-time home of the terrorist group in Afghanistan. ISIS has…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Aidan Mattis Much ado was made these past two weeks on all sides of the political spectrum, and all of it over the legality and the morality of the US Navy’s strike on a Syrian Airbase. Many groups and nations backed Donald Trump. The UK, Germany, Canada, France, and, according…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kitty Testa Tuesday morning the world received word that Syrian civilians were attacked with poisonous gas. Although the attack was just hours old, the official word was that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to blame. The New York Times went to press Tuesday with the story, noting that Syrian officials charged…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The United States has finally struck the government of President Bashar Al-Assad with fifty to sixty cruise missiles on airfields controlled by the Syrian regime. This is the first time the U.S has directly attacked the Syrian regime, though the U.S has not been on friendly terms with them. This…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Islamic State fighters are using children as human shields to deter airstrikes from the U.S. and the Iraqi Security Forces, BBC News reports. BBC News reporters accompanying the Iraqi Security Forces on a mission over ISIS-held areas of Mosul saw several examples of ISIS fighters ferrying children…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to ABC News: Syria fired missiles at Israeli warplanes on a mission to destroy a weapons convoy destined for the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah prompting it to deploy its missile defense system, Israeli officials said Friday, in a rare military exchange between the two…
by Rachel Stoltzfoos Rescue workers unbury a little girl trapped alive in the rubble of a Syrian airstrike and pull her to safety in new footage coming out of the city of Aleppo. The footage obtained by Sky News shows rescue workers carefully dig around the little girl, who is buried deep in a mound of rubble…
Rachel Stoltzfoos An army of Syrian rebels reportedly paraded prisoners around in cages and then placed the cages strategically about their Damascus suburb in an effort to ward off Syrian and Russian airstrikes. A video posted by Sham News Network shows men and women in giant cages being pulled around the suburb in trucks. The prisoners inside…