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Congress zooms in on drone killings - latimes » Jun 25, 2012 ...WASHINGTON -- Once a month, a group of staff members from the House and Senate intelligence committees drives across the Potomac River to CIA headquarters in Virginia, assembles in a secure room and begins the grim task of watching videos of the latest drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen. Articles.latimes.com

What's happening in Aleppo? - BBC News » Early Aug: Rebels and al-Qaeda-linked jihadist fighters in the countryside outside Aleppo seize back control of a route through the Ramousseh district in the south of the city linking them up with the outside world again. Mid-Oct: Government forces retake the area in early September and resume the siege. There is a brief ... Bbc.com

Green analyzes impact of Saudi officials liquidating U.S. real estate ... » Nov 5, 2017 ...Los Angeles Times quoted Richard Green, Director of the USC Lusk Center, about the potential impact of Saudi officials liquidating U.S. real estate holdings. http://beta.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fi-alwaleed-bin-talal-backgrounder- 20171105-story.html... Priceschool.usc.edu

Jihadists Receiving Most Arms Sent to Syrian Rebels - The New ... » Oct 14, 2012 ...WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials... Nytimes.com

Pentagon Tests Lasers and Nets to Combat a Vexing Foe: ISIS Drones » Sep 23, 2017 ...WASHINGTON — At the vast, windswept White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico earlier this year, nearly a dozen military contractors armed with laser guns, high-tech nets and other experimental systems met to tackle one of the Pentagon's most vexing counterterrorism conundrums: how to destroy the... Nytimes.com

In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA ... » Mar 27, 2016 ...Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the... Latimes.com

The U.S. military is targeting Islamic State's virtual caliphate by ... » May 5, 2017 ...Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, acknowledged Islamic State's loss of territory does not ...State's chain of command, including a secretive wing of external operations planners that is assigned to plot attacks in different regions of the world. Latimes.com

MIDDLE EAST: Virtual Muslim world bans drinking, sex | Babylon ... » Feb 14, 2009 ...MIDDLE EAST: Virtual Muslim world bans drinking, sex ...Ever wanted to experience life in the Muslim world but didn't have enough money to fly to Cairo? ...You can subscribe by logging in at the website here, clicking on the box for " L.A. Times updates" and then clicking on the "World: Mideast" box. Latimesblogs.latimes.com

More than 200 civilians killed in suspected U.S. airstrike in Iraq - LA ... » Mar 24, 2017 ...Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, the top Air Force commander in the Middle East, said in February that U.S. advisors had been granted greater authority and, rather than going through headquarters, now can speak directly to pilots so that strikes can be launched quickly. The U.S. military employs a lengthy set of... Latimes.com

Middle East News - Los Angeles Times » Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki, left, with his Italian counterpart Angelino Alfano during a visit to Rome on Nov. 9. On Nov. 18, Maliki said the U.S. threat to shut the Palestinian office in Washington amounts to "extortion." ( Maurizio Brambatti / EPA-EFE / REX / Shutterstock). World... Latimes.com