War

US "boots on the ground" on Iraq have just suffered their first casualty.

Moments ago US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the Islamic State killed the first U.S. serviceman in Iraq who was aiding Kurdish fighters near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, RT reports. A statement from the US-led forces in Iraq added the fatality was "a result of enemy fire." "It is a combat death, of course. And a very sad loss," Carter told reporters at a press conference in Germany.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized the firing of a nuclear capable 3M-54 Kalibr cruise missile towards the Baltic Sea as a warning to NATO and the U.S. to cease their efforts in trying to uncover information about the mysterious object known as the “Baltic Sea Anomaly“. Over the last 2 weeks the US and NATO have deployed warships in the Baltic Sea region, cutting off all international shipping traffic to the site where the mysterious underwater object lies between Sweden and Finland.

The British Labour Party leader has rejected calls to denounce Hamas and Hezbollah while vowing to continue talking to the two groups. Jeremy Corbyn refused to denounce the groups in the wake of calls from Jewish leaders, the Israeli Ambassador and members of his own party to distance himself from those with anti-Semitic views. A statement from Corbyn’s spokesperson said he would continue to engage such groups, denying that doing so was tantamount to an endorsement.

Amid escalating tensions, NATO is preparing to deploy approximately 4,000 troops to Russia’s western border Robert Work, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense announced the Western military escalation on Russia’s border, which he claims is in response to Russia conducting ‘extraordinarily provocative’ military exercises inside their own borders near the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Meanwhile, EUCOM Chief, U.S.

A recently rediscovered document in the American Archives reveals that around 10 million Iranians died as a result of widespread famine between 1917-1919.  The Iranian famine is barely mentioned by Western media or in the history books, probably due to the fact that it was caused by the British presence in Iran after World War I. Khamenei.ir reports: After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Britain became the main foreign power in Iran and this famine or–more accurately–‘genocide’ was committed by the British.