
Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization, announced that it would hold a Q&A session on Twitter using the hashtag #AskHamas today. It quickly turned into a disaster for Hamas when its feed was flooded “with negative comments”– and the session does not even start until 1PM ET.
by Mary Chastain13 Mar 2015, 10:36 AM PST0

State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki declared that the letter written by 47 GOP Senators to Iran “really does bring into question whether they want to see a deal, whether they want to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon” on
by Ian Hanchett13 Mar 2015, 10:31 AM PST0

Friday Vice New released a highly edited preview trailer for there interview with President Barack Obama. Though mostly only questions made the cuts in one segment the president slams the 47 Republican senators who sent a letter to the leaders
by Pam Key13 Mar 2015, 9:22 AM PST0

Turkish education officials are pulling a textbook from grade schools featuring a children’s story in which hyenas dismiss the idea of women being freely able to choose their own careers for fear that they will “not even want to start a family.”
by Frances Martel13 Mar 2015, 9:03 AM PST0

A community in northeast Syria inhabited primarily by Assyrian Christians has been under steady assault by ISIS for the past 18 days, and they are barely holding on, according to Rima Tuezuen of the Syriac European Union. When the attack first began on February 23rd, ISIS abducted hundreds of Christian prisoners, only 23 of whom have been released so far.
by Katie Gorka13 Mar 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Iran’s new family planning laws enraged the international community and human rights organizations. The regime has proposed a ban on vasectomies and cutting access to contraception and abortion in an attempt to grow the population.
by Mary Chastain12 Mar 2015, 9:34 PM PST0

Since the army took power from Mohamed Morsi in 2013 with popular support, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi says he’s been fighting to keep the forces of anarchy at bay. On the eve of a large investment conference this weekend, he invited The Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth to the massive white presidential palace for a conversation about Egypt’s problematic relationship with Washington, how to defeat the Islamic State, and his fears and hopes for his country.
by Breitbart News12 Mar 2015, 8:35 PM PST0

The European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the protection of Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities in the Middle East from the depredations of the Islamic State. A call for the establishment of safe havens for ethnic and religious minorities in the Nineveh Plains is part of the resolution.
by John Hayward12 Mar 2015, 7:02 PM PST0

Thursday on the “David Webb Show” on Sirius-XM Radio, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Secretary of State John Kerry’s “wrong-headed” comments “diminishing and disregarding the Senate treaty authority with regards to Iran” shows the need for Congress to take their constitutional
by Pam Key12 Mar 2015, 4:36 PM PST0

Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” in discussing the letter 47 senators wrote to the leadership in Iran and the president’s negative reaction, Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) said “it’s unfortunate” the president does not understand they are demanding
by Pam Key12 Mar 2015, 2:47 PM PST0

The father of an Arab-Israeli teenager executed by the Islamic State (ISIS) for allegedly spying for Israel has pledged to fight on behalf of the Jewish state against the jihadi terror group.
by Jordan Schachtel12 Mar 2015, 1:26 PM PST0

The Associated Press reports that the boy executioner and his adult mentor from the latest ISIS snuff film, in which the boy executes a 19-year-old Palestinian accused of being a “Mossad spy,” have been identified as French citizens. The older jihadi may be linked to a horrific attack on a Jewish school in France in 2012.
by John Hayward12 Mar 2015, 12:58 PM PST0

NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd blasted the letter to Iran written by 47 Republican Senators as “stupid” and a “dangerous precedent” on Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “I think you’re seeing a whole bunch of [Republicans]– not
by Ian Hanchett12 Mar 2015, 10:52 AM PST0

Although the Obama administration, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and some in the media have criticized the 47 Republican senators who wrote a letter to remind the leaders of Iran the U.S. Constitution says Congress has a role in some major
by Pam Key12 Mar 2015, 10:27 AM PST0

In a demonstration of close ties between Tehran and the Palestinian terror group, Hamas chairman Khaled Mashaal, who has made a home in Qatar, met with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larjani on Wednesday during his visit to Doha.
by Jordan Schachtel12 Mar 2015, 10:22 AM PST0

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) unloaded on President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretary of State and likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and the mainstream media over the Iranian nuclear deal—and the
by Matthew Boyle12 Mar 2015, 9:56 AM PST0

In an interview with Voice of America published on Wednesday, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan claimed that Boko Haram fighters are traveling to “ISIS camps” to receive terror training before relocating to West Africa and attacking northeastern Nigerian villages.
by Frances Martel12 Mar 2015, 8:48 AM PST0

Sen. Tom Cotton was working to build support for his now-controversial letter to Iranian leaders when he ran into an unexpected obstacle: Mother Nature.
by Breitbart News12 Mar 2015, 7:09 AM PST0

The Twitter account of a Melbourne, Australia, teen nicknamed the “White Jihadi” has been suspended after he tweeted about coming attacks that would “make 9/11 look like child’s play.”
by AWR Hawkins11 Mar 2015, 10:13 PM PST0

Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin remarked “I guess it’s not OK to say Obama doesn’t love America, but it is OK to say Republicans…are seditious and treasonous” on Wednesday. “I guess it’s not OK
by Ian Hanchett11 Mar 2015, 9:28 PM PST0

On Wednesday, a firefight broke out over Twitter between Senator Tom Cotton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the letter to Iran authored by Cotton and signed by 46 other GOP senators.
by William Bigelow11 Mar 2015, 8:15 PM PST0

Between 2006 and 2007, at least twelve Democratic Congressmen agreed to meet with Iranian officials in the Ayatollah’s regime at the behest of National Iranian American Council (NIAC) President Trita Parsi, according to a report by Hassan Dai of the Iranian American Forum.
by Jordan Schachtel11 Mar 2015, 7:26 PM PST0

WASHINGTON—The highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. armed forces, while testifying before lawmakers on Wednesday, linked a Taliban faction in Afghanistan to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Edwin Mora11 Mar 2015, 7:19 PM PST0

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that the proposed agreement with Iran “will lead inexorably to Iran acquiring nuclear weapons” and “we are at a moment like Munich in ’38” on Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Cruz stated that Iran agreement currently
by Ian Hanchett11 Mar 2015, 5:06 PM PST0

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi joined others in calling for the destruction of Egypt’s Great Sphinx and Pyramids. In a statement out this week, said it is a Muslim’s “religious duty” to destroy the monuments. The monuments are the only one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World still in existence.
by Mary Chastain11 Mar 2015, 12:33 PM PST0