Britain First: From fringes to Trump’s Twitter account
Britain First is a fringe far-right group that was relatively little known in the country until US President Donald Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by its deputy leader, Jayda Fransen. The group’s rallies typically attract just a few dozen supporters at a time and it gets around the same number of votes in the […]
A Look at Some Widely-Spread Falsehoods About Muslims
Mislabeled footage of an aggressive “Muslim migrant” shared by President Donald Trump is just one more hoax in a long line of fabricated anti-Islam stories. Anti-Muslim fervor has been bubbling for years in the United States and Europe, periodically stoked by elected officials and media outlets. Most of these tropes — usually involving the “outraged […]
US-led Coalition Says Its Airstrikes Have Killed 801 in Syria, Iraq
The U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq said Thursday its airstrikes have killed 801 civilians since late 2014. The figures came in the coalition’s latest monthly statement about its investigations into reports of possible civilian casualties resulting from the strikes. In October, the coalition says it investigated 64 such reports, […]
Trump attacks May, defends Britain First tweets
US President Donald Trump has brushed off British Prime Minister Theresa May’s criticism of his online support of a far right group, suggesting she defends the United Kingdom from “Radical Islamic Terrorism” instead. The US president on Wednesday retweeted a series of anti-Muslim Twitter video posts by Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of the far-right Britain […]
Britain’s May: Trump Wrong to Retweet Anti-Muslim Videos
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump was wrong to retweet anti-Muslim videos from a far-right British group of ultranationalists that she described as “hateful.” “The fact that we work together does not mean that we’re afraid to say when we think the United States has got it wrong, and be […]
Trump to replace Rex Tillerson with Mike Pompeo: Report
US President Donald Trump has addressed US news media reports on the imminent departure of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, with either confirming or denying them. The rumours, which have been present for months, grew louder when the New York Times reported citing senior administration officials on Thursday that Trump intended to replace Tillerson […]