
The South Korean government revealed Wednesday that it had fired 20 machine gun shots at an unidentified drone widely believed to have come from North Korea that had entered South Korean territory. The incident follows international condemnation of a weapons test Pyongyang claims was the successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
by Frances Martel14 Jan 2016, 9:55 AM PST0

Officials discovered another mass grave in Sinjar, Iraq, containing bodies of Yazidis, including children, who refused to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain14 Jan 2016, 7:58 AM PST0

The Arab Spring revolution that spread to various countries after it started in January 2011, when Tunisians assembled in the streets of their capital and overthrew their longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, has a been a failure, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
by Edwin Mora14 Jan 2016, 6:58 AM PST0

Contents: Iran releases American sailors as end of sanctions approaches; Report: Sri Lankan government repeatedly torturing and raping Tamils; Sri Lanka joining the torture club, with Syria, Burundi, Zimbabwe
by John J. Xenakis14 Jan 2016, 6:38 AM PST0

Militants of the Islamic State terror group carried out multiple coordinated attacks involving suicide bombers and gunmen in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Thursday morning, killing at least 17. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the terror attacks, which involved
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.14 Jan 2016, 4:07 AM PST0

A Senegalese immigrant with a police record for drug dealing has confessed to the murder of American artist Ashley Ann Olsen, who was found naked and strangled in her apartment in Florence, Italy, last Saturday. The 25-year-old suspect came to
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.14 Jan 2016, 3:04 AM PST0

A U.S. non-governmental organization called the Syrian Emergency Task Force told Foreign Policy their field office in the Idlib province was hit by a Russian airstrike on Saturday. Other civilian damage in the area has been reported, and the strike is being cited as evidence Russia is not focusing its attention on Islamic State targets, as it frequently claims.
by John Hayward13 Jan 2016, 9:58 PM PST0

Radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was convicted in 2011 of running a terror camp in the Aceh province of Indonesia. On Tuesday, he appealed his 15-year prison sentence without actually denying that he broke the law. Instead, he argued that his actions were justified because he was obeying Allah’s orders.
by John Hayward13 Jan 2016, 9:14 PM PST0

More than 3,000 infants in Brazil have been diagnosed with brain deformities believed to have been triggered by the Zika virus, a disease similar to dengue fever that has become increasingly common as the Southern Hemisphere’s summer wears on.
by Frances Martel13 Jan 2016, 9:00 PM PST0

The Saudi government reportedly arrested a prominent human rights activist Tuesday who was awarded the “International Woman of Courage Award” in 2012 from Hillary Clinton, who was the U.S. secretary of state at the time
by Edwin Mora13 Jan 2016, 7:51 PM PST0

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denounced Iran for detaining two American Navy boats and ten American sailors before releasing them today. Trump was outraged by the photos released by the Iranian news agency, showing American service members surrendering to Iranian
by Charlie Spiering13 Jan 2016, 4:21 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Less than one week before the international community is set to unlock a decade of sanctions imposed on Iran, the country’s Islamic hardliners deliberately generated a crisis with the US for pure domestic consumption with the aim of ensuring the ayatollahs’s continued grip on power.
by Aaron Klein13 Jan 2016, 4:11 PM PST0

Victory for pro-democracy activists in Myanmar’s latest election has emboldened the nation’s political cartoonists, who face extreme censorship under military rule.
by Mary Chastain13 Jan 2016, 2:42 PM PST0

Barack Obama has a history of humiliating photo-ops associated with his full-blown Radical Islam Denial Syndrome: the burning consulate in Benghazi juxtaposed with Obama partying it up in Vegas with Beyonce; the dead bodies of ISIS-slain Parisians juxtaposed with Obama telling the world that ISIS could be fought with a climate change summit; corpses in San Bernardino juxtaposed with Obama simultaneously telling a national audience that ISIS was contained.
by Ben Shapiro13 Jan 2016, 2:36 PM PST0

In Afrin, Syria, located 40 miles north of Aleppo, the leaders within the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) continue to recruit new women to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain13 Jan 2016, 2:25 PM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama, in his final State of the Union (SOTU) address delivered Tuesday, only mentioned Afghanistan, home to America’s longest war, once, without highlighting that a resilient Taliban has managed to gain control of more territory than
by Edwin Mora13 Jan 2016, 1:55 PM PST0

The Islamic State suicide bomber who attacked Istanbul on Tuesday, killing 9 German tourists and a Peruvian as well as injuring at least 15 other people, slipped past border security by posing as a Syrian refugee, according to Turkish officials.
by John Hayward13 Jan 2016, 12:33 PM PST0

Venezuela’s First Lady, Cilia Flores, has accused the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has “committed the crime of kidnapping” against his nephews, both charged with attempting to traffic cocaine into New York.
by Frances Martel13 Jan 2016, 12:06 PM PST0

Congressman Ted Yoho introduced a Resolution of Condemnation and Censure against President Obama today.
by Michelle Fields13 Jan 2016, 11:19 AM PST0

Another Pakistani Christian has died in Thailand due to the deplorable conditions inside the country’s immigration center. The latest raid led to many arrests on December 20.
by Mary Chastain13 Jan 2016, 11:18 AM PST0

Iran likely violated the Geneva Convention by putting captured U.S. Navy sailors on television on Tuesday after their two boats were seized in what Iran claims was its territorial waters.
by Joel B. Pollak13 Jan 2016, 11:01 AM PST0

King Abdullah’s Jordan is one of America’s most important allies in the Middle East, but President Obama does not have time to meet with the leader of the Hashemite Kingdom this week while he visits the U.S., the White House has announced.
by Jordan Schachtel13 Jan 2016, 10:33 AM PST0

Iranian state-controlled news outlet Tasnim released video Wednesday afternoon that shows a U.S. sailor apologizing for purportedly infringing upon Tehran’s sovereignty.
by Jordan Schachtel13 Jan 2016, 10:18 AM PST0

President Obama had a few words to say about discrimination against Muslims in his State of the Union speech, but nothing about discrimination against Christians – which includes assault, murder, and imprisonment globally. The omission was as shameful as it was unsurprising.
by John Hayward13 Jan 2016, 9:46 AM PST0

Vice President Joe Biden told CBS New the U.S. did not apologize to Iran after the country released ten Navy sailors it had abducted on Tuesday night.
by Mary Chastain13 Jan 2016, 8:13 AM PST0