Accuracy in Media

White House spokesman Josh Earnest is partially correct, that former Iraqi leader Nuri al-Maliki is to blame for the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq. The Iraqi military should outnumber Islamic State forces, but do not have the resolve to stand and fight. But, to ignore Obama’s part in the rise of the Islamic […]

WASHINGTON — The country of Iraq, torn apart by Islamist terrorists so extreme that it is not officially part of the immediate terrorist network al-Qaeda, has asked the U.S. for air support in their civil war. Reuters reported that U.S. President Barack Obama has bided his time to decide a course of action regarding Iraq. […]

WASHINGTON — Iraq-based Sunni Muslim and al-Qaeda-affiliated militants overran the city of Tikrit and have already taken Mosul. Tikrit was the hometown of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Reuters reported that the seizure of Tikrit, close a major oil refinery, worries security analysts and oil companies alike. The al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as the Islamic State […]

WASHINGTON — Iraqi violence has spiked in recent months. Reuters reports that the United Nations (U.N.) is worried that the violence will rival 2006-2007’s sectarian “slaughter“. Over 1,000 people were killed last month in May in violence between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims throughout the country. Additionally, over the past two months about 2,000 people were […]