
Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have successfully overtaken much of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, have freed Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and his cabinet ministers after they were kept on house arrest for almost two months.
by Jordan Schachtel17 Mar 2015, 1:03 PM PST0

American authorities returned around 65 stolen artifacts to Iraq after a very long investigation to retrieve the stolen items. The items were handed over at the Iraqi consulate in Washington, DC.
by Mary Chastain17 Mar 2015, 12:31 PM PST0

Robert Bennett, a New York City F train subway conductor, has taken to Facebook to call for a jihadist attack against the transit system, after being fed up with his job, according to the New York Post.
by Jordan Schachtel17 Mar 2015, 10:43 AM PST0

Today, the Iraq government issued a surprising statement that they were suspending the battle for Tikrit, ostensibly because they’re worried about collateral damage to the city and civilian casualties.
by John Hayward17 Mar 2015, 9:59 AM PST0

The moderate movement in Syria no longer exists, according to the International Business Times (IBT).
by Edwin Mora17 Mar 2015, 9:37 AM PST0

Baghdad museum director Fawzye al-Mahdi claims the “invaluable artifacts” at a Mosul museum that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroyed in a video are in fact replicas.
by Mary Chastain17 Mar 2015, 9:22 AM PST0

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended his decision to sign a letter penned by his colleague Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and signed by 46 other Republicans senators warning the Iranian regime that any deal
by Jeff Poor17 Mar 2015, 7:04 AM PST0

Executions are rising sharply in Iran, reaching a 12-year high in 2014, according to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council. The UN called this “deeply troubling” and further criticized Iran for not living up to promises that it would protect ethnic and religious minorities, according to a report at Voice of America News.
by John Hayward16 Mar 2015, 8:12 PM PST0

Benjamin Netanyahu, the incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, told NRG news that there is no place for a Palestinian state in the world under current conditions, given its present leadership—making his position on the “peace process” crystal-clear just hours before Israelis are set to vote for the leadership of their next government.
by Jordan Schachtel16 Mar 2015, 6:54 PM PST0

Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that it was “rich” for John Kerry to criticize the GOP’s Iran letter given his protest activity during the Vietnam War on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “I would say, Mr. Kerry, is
by Ian Hanchett16 Mar 2015, 6:32 PM PST0

Speaking for the first time on the floor of the U.S. Senate, freshmen Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) made a strong and emotional case for increasing defense spending in light of the growing world threats caused by President Obama’s foreign policy
by Pam Key16 Mar 2015, 4:58 PM PST0

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s center-right party trailing in the polls a week ago, on the eve of the country’s national election actor Chuck Norris has released a video appeal, asking Israeli voters for his re-election.
by Kipp Jones16 Mar 2015, 3:08 PM PST0

Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer,” Sen. Angus King (I-MA) said while he was not happy about the letter 47 Republican senators sent to the leadership of Iran, that will not stop him from supporting Sen. Bob
by Pam Key16 Mar 2015, 3:02 PM PST0

Sunday, after meeting with Iranian officials in Damascus on state television, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, addressed Secretary of State John Kerry’s “offer” to negotiate the end of their civil war, saying such statements “from outside do not concern us.” Secretary
by Pam Key16 Mar 2015, 2:06 PM PST0

Monday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said when the administration is saying Congress has a role in the Iran nuclear negotiations, what they are talking about is their consultations with Congress through hundreds of “meetings,
by Pam Key16 Mar 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

A crowd estimated at 2,000 turned out for the funeral of Ivana Hoffmann in Duisburg, Germany, over the weekend. Hoffmann, 19, was killed fighting ISIS in Syria as a volunteer in the Kurdish YPG force.
by John Hayward16 Mar 2015, 10:39 AM PST0

Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News that the United States is now willing to negotiate with (and accept as a legitimate ruler) Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a striking contrast from the administration’s prior insistence that regime change would be the only tolerated approach for Damascus.
by Jordan Schachtel16 Mar 2015, 10:17 AM PST0

The U.S. intelligence community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment removed Iran and its proxy Hezbollah from the list of terror threats to the United States.
by Jordan Schachtel16 Mar 2015, 9:59 AM PST0

Taking an instant dislike to Tony Blair is a good rule of life. It saves time. A generation of British voters would agree and now it seems plenty of international diplomats and UN representatives think it’s a good idea too.
by Simon Kent16 Mar 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

A former hostage of the Islamic State who was imprisoned alongside executed Westerners Alan Henning and Peter Kassig, among others, reports that the terrorist group had built a rudimentary replica of America’s Guantánamo Bay facility in Syria with the intention of filling it with Western citizens and torturing them.
by Frances Martel16 Mar 2015, 8:19 AM PST0

A notorious Iranian commander, who has reportedly been leading the fight to retake the Iraqi city of Tikrit from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), said in a video that Iraq needs expert jihadists.
by Edwin Mora16 Mar 2015, 6:30 AM PST0

(REUTERS) Queen Elizabeth arrives at St. Paul’s Cathedral where she is joined by the royal family to mark the end of British Military operations in Afghanistan. Follow Breitbart London on Twitter @BreitbartLondon
by Breitbart London16 Mar 2015, 6:18 AM PST0

The Turkish Foreign Ministry denounced on Saturday a recent report adopted by theEuropean Parliament that called on European Union member states to recognizeArmenian claims of genocide at the hands of the late Ottoman Empire.
by Breitbart News16 Mar 2015, 6:04 AM PST0

Even Politico, a reliably leftist media outlet that has done its best to support Barack Obama from pillar to post, is now tacitly acknowledging that hard-line Senator Tom Cotton has won his battle with the administration over the letter he authored to Iran that was signed by 46 other GOP senators.
by William Bigelow15 Mar 2015, 9:25 PM PST0

According to a statement from the Kurdish Regional Security Council, the Islamic State has crossed that fabled WMD “red line” by deploying chemical weapons against Kurdish peshmerga forces fighting along the Iraqi border with Syria, near the captive city of Mosul.
by John Hayward15 Mar 2015, 8:05 PM PST0