Jordan Schachtel

“Islamophobia” is so 2013. According to several Iranian state-media outlets along with Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, “Iranophobia” is the West’s new anxiety disorder. Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, speaking at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Global Forum Wednesday, reiterated his

Egyptian general and presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the man largely responsible for dethroning the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, asked the United States for help in fighting his country’s battle against Islamist extremism. “We are fighting a war against terrorism,”

Judicial Watch believes it has found compelling evidence to suggest United States Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has uncomfortably close ties to the Chinese government. The watchdog group’s lead was uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Fatah, the governing party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, posted a threatening message to Israel’s citizens on its official Facebook page. “Warning. This is a land of a Palestinian state and the occupation to leave immediately,” said the

After years of Boko Haram terrorizing Africa, the Obama administration has finally come around to recognizing the militant Islamist terrorist group as a serious threat. As almost 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in April remain missing, the State Department acknowledged Thursday

The Obama administration has plans to sell one billion dollars in advanced weaponry to Iraq, according to the Pentagon. The deal provides massive advances in airpower for the Iraqi military. A Pentagon official said the deal will include 24 AT-6C

The Iraqi Parliament will convene to discuss the merits of legalizing marriage to girls as young as nine years old. Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari, a top government official, proposed the controversial law. Fawzia al-Babakhan, A female Iraqi lawyer, was disappointed

A veteran underwater explorer claimed he has found ship wreckage off the coast of Haiti, the final destination of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria vessel. Explorer Barry Clifford believes he has found the famous ship that hit a reef off of Haiti’s coastline

Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations and Arab League special envoy to Syria, has stepped down from his position. Brahimi took the position in 2012, but resigned largely due to his failure to successfully progress towards making peace between the warring

An estimated 200 suspected members of Boko Haram were reportedly killed Wednesday and 10 captured in a successful counteroffensive by a local Nigerian militia in Rann, located in Kabalage Village. It is an area located in the northeast part of

A Facebook page called Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women was recently set up by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.  Describing the vision behind her page creation, Alinejad said: This page does not belong to any political group and the initiative

Deborah Peters is the only female survivor of a Boko Haram attack ever to visit Washington, D.C. A teenage girl from the village of Chibok, where hundreds of schoolgirls were recently abducted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Peters is now

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled Turkey must compensate Cyprus for its 1974 invasion of the island state. The $123 million ruling marks the largest charge ever declared under the auspices of the ECHR.  The court ruled

A spokesperson for South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense discharged a strongly worded statement during a press briefing that was extremely critical of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). The spokesman on behalf of South Korea said it

Al Qaeda affiliates have turned their guns on one another in the ongoing civil war in Syria. The warring parties: the al-Nusra Front and ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), who have been battling for control over the

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rozogin has claimed the residents of Transnistria, a breakaway region located between the borders of Moldova and Ukraine, have decided to back their absorption into the Russian Federation. “The Russian delegation has … brought home

The Central Intelligence Agency plans on shutting down its bases throughout Afghanistan over the summer and withdrawing its personnel back to Kabul. The Los Angeles Times reported that in March CIA Director John Brennan told a group of military officers that

The Islamic Republic of Iran claimed it has fully replicated and reverse-engineered a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned spy plane. The UAV was downed in 2011 while it was surveilling Iran’s nuclear and military sites. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who

A commentator at PressTV, one of Iran’s state-run news networks, has declared Nazi Germany on equal moral footing to its US, UK, and “Zionist Jew” opponents during WWII. PressTV’s Brandon Martinez vented his disgust that many were upset following revelations

In April, Islamist militants that were part of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) tried and failed to abduct a Central Intelligence Agency officer and U.S. Special Ops commando while they were at a barbershop in Sana’a, Yemen’s Capital

An influential Chinese journalist has been locked up on charges of leaking state secrets. Gao Yu, who was also imprisoned for over six years following the 1989 Tiananmen square protests, has been thrown in jail again stemming from reports from

According to ABC News and the Daily Beast, the Obama administration failed to reply to requests by lobbying firm Patton Boggs, on behalf of the Nigerian government, for intelligence information and aid to help fight the militant Islamist terrorist group

Chinese experts are studying and considering plans to build a high-speed rail line that stretches from China to the United States. If constructed, the project, titled the “China-Russia-Canada-America” line, would stretch out to cover over 8,000 miles of land. China’s

North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency reportedly unleashed a variety of racial slurs directed at United States President Barack Obama. The reprehensible verbal rhetoric comes as North Korea prepares its fourth nuclear test. According to The Washington Post, Obama was