Northern syria the y. P. G. Has been an important to u. S. Ally in the battle against eisel but turkey sees it as a terrorist group. Irans revolutionary guard says theyve seized an iraqi oil tanker that was smuggling fuel in the gulf they said the vessel was intercepted near irans a fasi island carrying 700000 they says a fuel all 7 crew members have been detained but iraq has denied all and in the vessel it is the 3rd seizure by iran and less than a month and the gulf well those are the headlines on aljazeera aljazeera world is coming up next thank you for watching. 2. Was. Was. One of them and. Then in the orchestra of sammy security in the corner in a small office the symphony for us the locust on the mic a lot but it tanya said limit so evil of history so limited as it was a limitless scene. As if you live from a sunni land that had it and that has an advantage with. It should i leave the only survivor of the nation all of us a bit of a feel you dont go. And walk in the number of g
Of the sixday war the breaking of the middle east by doctor guy laron. To my right, its a great pleasure to welcome him and welcome all of you to this event. Im christian and i direct the history and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center. Its a program that tries to provide to bring Historical Context to current Public Policy issues. The discussion of Public Policy issues in washington. Many of you are familiar with the subprojects of the history and Public Policy program, the program weve run here for 25 years almost more than 25 years. A project thats devoted to uncovering, collecting, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence fror communist world archives but the mission has sort of crept to now include really all hard to access archives around the world. We are delighted to launch with this event today a series of activities, discussing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sixday war. We will have today the launch of perhaps the most import
Now, more than a year into the campaigns rollback and destroy isis, it is impossible to assert that isis is losing or that we are winning. To be sure, sure, there has been some tactical progress in putting a recent rick capture of romani. This is a testament to our leaders, but serious challenges remain. Isis has lost some territory but has consolidated power in its core territories in both iraq and syria. It maintains control of key iraq cities and art military commanders estimate that this key terrain will not be retaken this year. The un reports that since isis invasion of iraq in 2014, nearly 20000 iraq civilians have been killed, nearly 3500 people, predominantly women and children are estimated to be isis slaves in iraq. The secretary division in iraq is no surprise that the training of Iraq Security forces has been slow and the building of support for sunni tribal forces is even slower. In syria, there is no plausible strategy to achieve the timeline that wont result in the trag
Calling for the same, calling for the house and the senate to come back from break to grant president obama for iraq and syria, in the first 45 minutes this morning should congress return from break to the end vote on policy 285880 and 2025853882 for independence for iraq and afghanistan veterans if you want to way in 2025853883. On social media reach out to us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan and email journal on cspan. Org and they took the vote in the Guardian Newspaper of bombing to start in hours as they backed the war, 524 for the resolution, 43 against and a little this morning from patrick winters saying the over all tone of the sevenhour debate was questioning and dubious and warned any strategy does not address isis in syria or the proxy war between i ran and the sunni on the other was incomplete and also questions on whether iraqs army has the political well to defend communities from isis assault in the uk. Here in the United States some members of Congress Cal
Withdrawal from afghanistan in terms of the earlier question about our capacity to deploy in two separate theaters of war . Right. I think the lessons i slightly change the angle here and say i think there are lessons from the afghan experience which can be applied to iraq. As i said earlier the business of doing it properly, building up an army from the grass roots, building up the respect of the confidence, capability, is in a way which wasnt done frankly in the british experience in iraq is relevant to what might happen. On that point do you think the afghan army is likely to perform better than we have seen with the iraqi army . Im optimistic. Providing theres one major caveat, providing the International Community stays committed both in continuing to train and also, and very importantly, in providing the money. Because dont forget the afghanistan did not collapse after the soviets left, it collapsed when soviet union collapsed when the money dried up. I am optimistic that providi