After outcry from supporters, Instagram restored an account dedicated to memorializing the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamist revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The account, which has over 100,000 followers according to some media reports, has posted over 600 photos of the late cleric and revolutionary.
Gunmen killed two members of the Egyptian tourist police force and injured a conscript in front of the Giza Pyramids outside of Cairo on Tuesday.
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) is injecting himself into the controversy over a Colorado charter school that refused to allow its 2015 valedictorian to give what the school calls a “disrespectful” and “inappropriate” address.
South Korean officials announced on Wednesday that they can confirm the existence of five new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, commonly called MERS.
German officials confirmed that hackers have managed to obtain access to the internal server of the German Bundestag, the national legislature. The breach occurred two weeks ago. Details remain unclear about what data the hackers took and how sensitive the data is.
Al-Shabaab, a Somali terror group, has been making waves in a big way in Kenya over the last several days.
Ahmed Saleem, a Muslim youth coordinator and former CAIR community organizer, was arrested along with 100 others in a sting operation on a child sex ring in Florida, police said in a conference on Tuesday.
Observers have known Islamic State terrorists have managed to get their hands on Iraqi equipment, but on Sunday, the Iraqi Prime Minister revealed the stunning numbers. “In the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of weapons… We lost 2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told Iraqi state television.
After late-night talks in Berlin with global leaders, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says that Greece has reached a “realistic” solution to the debt crisis ahead of Friday’s impending deadline.
Neither Iran nor the West are friendly with ISIS, but if an Iranian cartoon contest is any metric, their mutual enemy is not pushing the powers closer together.
According to the Yemeni government-in-exile, United States diplomats are in discussions with Yemen’s Houthis, a Shiite rebel group which seized control of the Gulf country earlier this year.
Days after the United States pledged to supply the Iraqi military with more modern equipment, ISIS used American equipment abandoned by fleeing Iraqis to commit a suicide attack on an important ammunition depot.
A group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS assassinated Saber Siam, a senior Hamas commander, according to reports on Sunday.
Thousands of Muslim Turks marched this past weekend to observe the anniversary of the Israeli raid of a Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla in 2010, chanting, “Muslims, don’t sleep, protect your brothers!” Commemorating the event, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed longing for Muslims “to hoist the Islamic flag over Jerusalem again.”
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hopes to get the final details of a bailout deal with the European Union worked out by Sunday, but he has faced increased criticism from the hard left in Greece for negotiating at all.
According to a diplomatic source speaking to Palestinian Ma’an news, Egyptian officials told Israeli security forces to “hold their aggression” and restrain their response to recent rocket attacks coming from the Gaza Strip.
A teenage boy stole nearly $500 from two war veterans this Memorial Day weekend. Harvey Krasner, 90, and Gerry Geisler, 79, were raising money for veterans’ organizations in front of a Rancho Mirage, California, grocery store, when the incident occurred.
Nigerian officials reached a preliminary agreement with multinational oil firms to pay back the $800 million Nigeria owes the oil suppliers in an effort to bring an end to the country’s dire fuel shortage.
On Tuesday, gunmen attacked UN-backed Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni in Tobruk, the seat of the nation’s parliament, another in a series of terrorist acts in the chaotic country.
Most Americans set aside Memorial Day weekend as a special time to honor those who have served our nation. However, an Illinois restaurant is under fire for the way they mistreated a veteran this Sunday.
According to reports from Russia’s public spending watchdog agency, Roscosmos, NASA’s Russian counterpart, is experiencing a wave of corruption, resulting in about $1.8 billion worth of financial violations.
On Thursday, Australian teen Oliver Bridgeman, suspected of fighting with an Al Qaeda-linked group in Syria, reportedly told his parents that he wants to return home.
The Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab executed yet another attack on Kenyan police near the city of Garissa on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks following the Easter massacre of Christians at Garissa University in April.
ARLINGTON, Virginia– This year’s Memorial Day in Washington, DC was marked by warm temperatures and a cloudless sky. Thousands of Americans flocked to Arlington National Cemetery to pay their respects to the nearly 400,000 servicemen and women buried here.
