Zachary Laub

Oct 11, 2023 | naija247news.com | Zachary Laub |Kali Robinson

SummaryA spin-off of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s, the Islamist militant group Hamas took over the Gaza Strip after defeating its rival political party, Fatah, in elections in 2006. The United States and European Union have designated Hamas a terrorist organization because of its armed resistance against Israel, which has included suicide bombings and rocket attacks.

Mar 20, 2023 | pbs.org | Mary Clare Jalonick |Lolita Baldor |Tara Copp |Zachary Laub

PBS NewsHour The U.S. invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003, in a hail of airstrikes on Baghdad. Soon, American troops would race across the desert toward the Iraqi capital. Special correspondent Mike Cerre was embedded with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines known as FOX 2/5 that would help take Baghdad and return to Iraq on subsequent deployments. He begins a series looking back at the war, 20 years later.