Frances Martel

In the towns where the Kurdish Peshmerga military, the Iraqi military, and ad-hoc Shiite militias have succeeded in eliminating the Sunni terrorist group the Islamic State, that power vacuum has led to contests between Kurds and Arabs over who is

Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens’s new book, America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, presents the dangers of an isolationist foreign policy and prescribes a solution for bringing America back to the forefront of

17-year-old Londoner Silhan Ozcelik boarded a train to Europe with a male friend in October, never to see her family again. Now, authorities suspect that Ozcelik, who is Kurdish, is on her way to Syria to fight against the terrorists

Authorities in Guinea are alarmed that a cooler containing the contaminated blood of an Ebola victim has gone missing, after bandits robbed the public taxi in which the blood was being transported. The Agence France-Presse reports that Guinea authorities only

In Kurdish-protected and internationally-organized refugee camps throughout Iraq and Syria, Christians, Yazidis, and Muslim Kurds live a tentative life in which many have lost their entire families and have no sense of when they will be able to return to

Supporters and potential active members of the jihadist terrorist group the Islamic State are using the hashtag “Islamic State Topples US Defense Minister” to take credit for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. A Twitter search for the

A French jihadist sentenced to seven years in prison for traveling to Syria to wage jihad told the court he eventually returned to France because he could not quit smoking, a practice banned by many jihadist groups, including the Islamic

Women belonging to Iraq’s Yazidi minority, who follow a religion that is neither Christian nor Muslim, have borne much of the worst of the horrors to which Islamic State terrorists subject so-called “infidels.” Turned into sex slaves for and sold

President Obama has incited tensions with some in the higher levels of Australian government after using his closing remarks at the G20 summit to demand Australia do more to protect the Great Barrier Reef. In response, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop

In an outrageous display on Lebanese television, Venezuelan member of the National Assembly Adel Al-Sughayar accused the Bush family of funding the rise of Adolf Hitler before World War II. Al-Sughayar, who serves in the National Assembly (he is described

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has responded to mockery of his claim that Muslim explorers discovered America by accusing Muslims who doubted him of not having “self-confidence” and calling for all schools to teach that Muslims arrived in America in

Chaos in the halls of power in Monrovia has reigned amid Liberia’s fight against the Ebola outbreak engulfing it, with foreign donors clashing with Liberian officials on how to best distribute funding and resources in the country. In an exclusive

A 40-year-old woman recently returned from Guinea died in a salon in Brooklyn, allegedly bleeding profusely from her nose and mouth. The woman, who was being monitored for Ebola symptoms, did not test positive for the virus, however. The New York

The New York Times editorial board has taken a bold stance on the issue of Cuba’s doctor slave trade, a system that coerces doctors to work abroad for meager “stipends” in exchange for more than $8 million a year being deposited into the

A new report by Human Rights Watch is condemning a long-standing practice among Indonesia’s police forces in which women who wish to serve are subjected to an invasive “virginity test” meant to identify the suitability of a woman to work

The French government has announced that the number of French citizens leaving the nation to wage jihad in Syria and Iraq is up 82% in 2014, almost doubling since the beginning of the year. Officials are blaming the rise of

A former North Korean soldier and farmer who defected in order to give his son a better life tells The Guardian his story — one of complete submission to his government and near-unimaginable loss for one lifetime. Writing under the pseudonym

President Obama has responded to today’s terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem in which four Israeli Jews attending morning prayers condemning the attack, and stating that “the majority of Palestinians” want peace. In a statement delivered to the White

Venezuelans who suspect their friends or neighbors of being insufficiently socialist now have a direct line to the government they can use to ensure anyone not toeing the line is punished. President Nicolás Maduro announced the new “Denounce Infiltrates” Hotline

Simultaneous efforts by the Venezuelan government to force unreasonable price controls on vendors of necessary goods and arrest any who sell those goods on the black market has led to the rise of a unique phenomenon known as the “street

Christians all throughout the Middle East have been fleeing the rise of radical Islamist guerrillas since the start of the Syrian Civil War, quickening their pace after the Islamic State emptied Mosul, Iraq, of its Christian population. Several thousand Syriac

Just as he did last year, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is starting off the holiday season early to distract from the massive failures of his socialist regime. This time, Maduro is kicking off the holiday season with a “socialist Barbie,”

The seemingly interminable outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has begun to ravage new territory. This week, the nation of Mali recorded its official second death due to the virus and has announced it is closely monitoring up to 200