National Security Council

Carter visits Turkey's ?ncirlik Base in bid to strengthen anti-ISIL fight

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter traveled to Turkey on Dec. 15, looking for new ways the U.S.-led coalition can strengthen its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Iraq and Syria.

"We want Turkish forces to join in the air and on the ground as appropriate," Carter told reporters on Dec. 15. 

After delay, Kurdish forces launch battle to retake Iraq's Sinjar

Kurdish forces launched an offensive on Nov. 12 to retake the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering U.S.-led air strikes.

President's Advisory Council to Discuss Challenges to Bulgaria's Security

A meeting of the advisory National Security Council with  President Rosen Plevneliev will discuss risks and threats to Bulgaria posed by recent changes in the geostrategic security environment, the President's press office has announced.

The meeting in Sofia will start in at 9.30 a.m.  (7.30 GMT) on Monday.

Seyman's 'Benazir'

During the times when Pakistan and Bangladesh were still one and this journalist was still a young beginner of the profession, there was a Pakistani journalist, Hossain Shahadat, who spared time and energy to explain the deliquescence of souls in the Indus River...

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