While much of the global attention on the jihadist terror group Islamic State has focused on its genocidal attacks in Iraq, the group’s Syria wing has begun to advance through towns in Aleppo province, Syria, trapping more moderate anti-Assad rebels
An extensive report by The Washington Post details how the Turkish government is attempting to fight off Islamic State jihadists on their border–and struggling to undo medical, military, and moral support that jihadists counted on for months in border towns near
Five doctors working out of a private hospital in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, claim they are being forced to continue working there and cannot return to their homes in India. The doctors have aroused the ire of the leadership
In what appears to be yet another attempt to claim it is “opening” itself to the world, the communist regime of Cuba is reportedly set to approve the construction of a Catholic church on the island for the first time
The jihadist terror group Islamic State has made no mystery of its intentions to expand out of Iraq and Syria and into the world’s largest Muslim country, Indonesia. In addition to videos and magazines targeted at Indonesian Muslims, some are
The Chinese government is stepping up its international humanitarian efforts in Africa, sending almost $5 million-worth of medical supplies to the three countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak: Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. This as China tests another eight
Following official declarations of support via humanitarian aid for the minority populations of Iraq currently fighting an onslaught from the jihadist terror group Islamic State, Kurdish publication Rudaw claims that the government of Turkey has vowed to do all in
At what was at times a combative congressional hearing Thursday on the burgeoning Ebola crisis in West Africa, congressmen and Africa aid workers criticized both the United States and international response to the outbreak, asserting it has been insufficient to
Last week, Aderemi Ibirogba, Nigeria’s commissioner for Information and Strategy, warned would-be scammers that selling false “Ebola cures” could land them in jail. The threat apparently did not work, as a separate Nigerian government agency repeated the threats and publicly paraded
The terrorist group Islamic State, formerly ISIS, has nearly completed a march out of the city of Mosul to the Kurdish capital Erbil, where Kurdish forces, reports say, are working with the Iraqi military to protect their capital. A McClatchy
The terrorist group Islamic State has taken over Qaraqosh, the largest remaining Christian enclave in Iraq. With the conquest of Qaraqosh and a further onslaught north into Assyrian territory, reports have surfaced that up to 200,000 Assyrian Christians have fled
With few resources to treat the infected, and even fewer to keep the virus from spreading, the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone have begun isolating large swaths of the country where the virus has spread uncontrollably, attempting to isolate
Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the United States Center for Disease Control, announced this afternoon that the agency has elevated its response to the Ebola virus to Level 1– the highest possible response level. The CDC heightened the level
Having rid Mosul of its Christian population, the terrorist group ISIS – now the Islamic State – has begun targeting a small population of Iraqis known as Yazidis, who have fled the now-ISIS-controlled town of Sinjar and are living on a mountaintop
The Indonesian government announced on Monday that public support for the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), now rebranded as the Islamic State, is illegal in the nation, as well as the publication of any pro-ISIS propaganda.
The near-unprecedented assassination of a United States Major General in Afghanistan yesterday has returned media attention to a war President Obama long deemed over. While Democrats greeted the so-called end of the Afghan War as a welcome change, sources within
Tuskegee University students studying abroad this summer in Monrovia, Liberia, were scheduled to return to their homes in Alabama by the end of this week, but they might now be trapped in the Liberian capital for the rest of the
Two men arrested in India over the weekend deny that they are supporters of the terrorist group Islamic State (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS), despite appearing in a widely distributed image of 26 Muslim men wearing
The population of the town of Damboa in northern Nigeria has now become a mass of 15,000 internally displaced refugees. After the town organized a citizen vigilante effort to rid its region of the jihadist terror group Boko Haram, the
“There’s a kind of romance with Nigeria and [with] bad news,” a Lagos resident tells the Christian Science Monitor. “Are we making Nigeria… from a Boko Haram country to a[n] Ebola country?” The dual threat is on many of the
An attacker wearing what Afghan officials deemed an “Afghan National Army uniform” shot dead a United States Army major general in a training camp in the capital, Kabul. The American-led military coalition there has said that multiple others have also
Reports surfaced this weekend of the worst ethnic violence experienced in China since 2009, with more than 100 people killed in attacks by individuals the government claims are Uyghur Islamist extremists in Xinjiang. Chinese state media report the government is
Local New York City media are reporting that a man who had recently traveled to West Africa is currently undergoing testing for the Ebola virus at Mount Sinai Hospital, after arriving at the hospital with a high fever. According to
Fears that Lieutenant Hadar Goldin of the Israeli Defense Forces had been captured by Hamas ended what would have been a 72-hour ceasefire between the terror organization and Israel. Over the weekend, however, Goldin was declared dead, and thousands of Israelis congregated
The highly polished publicity wing of the terrorist group Islamic State, now trying to establish itself as a sovereign nation, continues to publish high-production videos to encourage Muslims around the world to abandon their lives and families and move to
