A Washington Post-ABC poll released Tuesday finds that the majority of Americans support military action against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist terror group, while also largely disapproving of the job President Obama has done as head of the nation’s foreign
In an effort to crowdsource the potential solution to the Ebola epidemic, the Awareness Times, one of the largest newspapers in Sierra Leone, debuted a column last week which daily will publish public health recommendations to fight the virus. The
The Islamic State is a radical jihadist group that developed out of al-Qaeda and eventually grew to stand on its own after splitting with al-Qaeda leadership and making significant gains in recruiting Muslims from the West to fight in Iraq
Chinese state media outlet Xinhua estimates that the government will organize trips for 14,000 Chinese citizens to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to conduct the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city. The news follows months of crackdowns on ethnic Uighur Muslims
The Netherlands has experienced as surge in anti-Semitic incidents and pro-jihadists demonstrations in the past decade, and is currently struggling to contain the rising popularity of the terrorist group the Islamic State in its Muslim communities. Last week, the Dutch
Patriarch Louis Sako, leader of the Iraqi Christian Chaldean Catholic Church, has attacked the United States as “indirectly responsible” for the plight of Christians in that nation at the hands of the violent jihadist group the Islamic State. In a
The World Health Organization has released a controversial study claiming that North Korea has the second-highest suicide rate in the world, with almost 10,000 people taking their lives in the oppressive dictatorship in 2012. Many question state statistics, however, as
Breitbart News recently reported that the FBI did not include Islamist terrorism in its report, “National Threat Assessment for Domestic Extremism.” As Bill Gertz originally wrote, “the internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 assessment published this month that the threat to
The World Health Organization announced this week that the death toll in West Africa due to the outbreak of Ebola has reached 1,900 and continues to skyrocket. Among the greatest challenges for medical experts working to contain the outbreak has
The jihadist group the Islamic State has made mass abductions and murders a staple of their terrorist tactics in both Iraq and Syria. Last week, reports began to surface on social media of a massacre at Tabqa Airbase in northern
Echoing a tactic of another jihadist terror group–Nigeria’s Boko Haram–the Islamic State (IS) is now reportedly conducting mass abductions, kidnapping and taking away 50 men from a Sunni village north of Baghdad this week. The Associated Press reports that Islamic State
Photos have surfaced on Twitter of smiling men celebrating in front of airplanes, alleged to be images of the capture of Tripoli’s airport by jihadist forces. The seizure of the Libyan capital’s airport–and eleven of its commercial jetliners–has caused concern
An estimated one thousand relatives of Iraqi soldiers that have gone missing since surrendering to the Islamic State terrorist group in June stormed the Iraqi Parliament on Tuesday, demanding legislators act to retrieve their family members. According to Agence France-Presse,
In a move unusual for a group known to have a sophisticated propaganda outfit, the jihadist terror group the Islamic State “apologized” yesterday after a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff surfaced online. The admission that the
The first live captured suicide bomber known to be working with the Islamic State in Syria says the area is teeming with jihadists from all over the world– from everywhere in the Middle East, Asia, and the West. In an
In response to the growing threat to Iraq’s capital, President Obama approved sending 350 additional troops to protect the United States embassy in Baghdad this week. The additional troops were announced after the Islamic State terrorist group published a video
The world’s leading public health voices are all in agreement that West Africa is losing precious time in the fight against its ongoing Ebola outbreak, and the window is closing on containing the virus in the region. “The level of
The oppressive socialist regime governing Venezuela has gone through painstaking means to replace the nation’s storied Christian tradition with blind worship of deceased dictator Hugo Chávez, from filling the streets of Caracas with murals to teaching in children’s books that
The Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation arrested three men at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino airport yesterday carrying explosives. While first believed to be involved in a jihadist plot, the men were eventually linked to a previously undiscovered terror group protesting Chinese-owned
The jihadist terror group Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS, has become a particularly dangerous threat to the West through its guerrilla-style war tactics and decentralized organization, making targeting leaders more difficult for Western militaries. ISIS leaders are now
The Cuban government has implemented new laws Monday that strengthen the embargo between itself and the United States–not limiting tourism from the West into the country, but limiting the transport of necessary goods like underwear and soap from Cuban families
Despite evidence that Islamist terrorism is the root cause of some of the deadliest attacks on American soil–including the Boston Marathon bombing that killed or wounded hundreds–the FBI has not included it on the list of potential domestic terror threats
Sixteen-year-old Shaki Kamara, a resident of Liberia’s impoverished West Point slum, has become the face of the terror ravaging Monrovia as the government attempts to fight the growing Ebola epidemic. Kamara was shot by police during violent exchanges between law
The operations director of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Brice de la Vigne, has described the international efforts to stop the spread of the Ebola virus as “almost zero,” arguing that there is a lack of “political will” to stop the
The UK-based video sharing website LiveLeak, which has become famous for its willingness to host videos featuring graphic violence that other sites ban, has issued a statement announcing it will ban any videos showing the beheading of a captive by
