Iraq
The State Department condemned the attack on the unoccupied construction site and said “no U.S. personnel or facilities” were damaged.
Ross Roggio is accused of abducting and abusing an employee who threatened to expose fraud at a weapons factory, according to prosecutors.
The 29-year-old Iraqi reportedly passed out in the courtroom after being found guilty, in the world’s first genocide conviction in the group’s barbaric attack on the Yazidis.
The latest from filmmaker Paul Schrader (“Taxi Driver,” “First Reformed”), and premiering at the Venice Film Festival, is much more than a gambling movie.
The docuseries “Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, ” premiering Sept. 1, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of 9/11 and the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ehab was killed in his car. Abbas was shot on his way to a funeral. Zahra faces constant death threats. In Iraq, young activists are getting hunted down, one by one.
“There is just a level of insanity from the government on this case that is just remarkable,” said Rachelle Barbour, Ameen’s federal defender in his now-dismissed extradition case.