The Islamic Republic of Iran seized two U.S. Navy vessels while they were navigating the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, detaining the ships and ten American sailors near Iran’s Farsi Island, the Pentagon said.
Pentagon leaders stoically followed along with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Speech tonight, showcased as President Obama declared the United States “most powerful nation on Earth. Period.” and insisted “no nation dares to attack us” on a night that ten Navy sailors are spending captive in an Iranian prison.
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says President Obama “lacks the power and respect” to demand that Iran to return the 10 U.S. sailors and two vessels its currently detaining, and that “this is what happens when your enemies don’t fear you.”
GOP presidential candidates Dr. Ben Carson, Gov. Jeb Bush, and Sen. Rick Santorum took to Twitter to blast President Obama as Iran holds captive 10 U.S. Navy men and two vessels on Tuesday.
The Indonesia Film Censorship Board (LSF) has held an emergency meeting regarding Netflix’s recent global expansion and may ban the service from the country entirely.
President Obama has “no plans” to address the ongoing hostage situation with Iran in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, White House Communications Director Jen Psaki told CNN.
Sen. Marco Rubio reacted to the news that two U.S. Navy boats and 10 American service members are currently being held in Iran, demanding their swift release.
At least two members of a radical Islamic group will be attending as guests of Members of Congress, supposedly to represent American Muslims. That is a disgrace.
The Islamic Republic of Iran seized two U.S. Navy vessels while they were navigating the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, detaining the ships and ten American sailors near Iran’s Farsi Island, the Pentagon said.
Lt. General Tukur Buratai, chief of staff for the Nigerian army, declared over the weekend that his forces have defeated the ISIS-aligned Boko Haram terror gang.
The Islamic State has begun to burn alive jihadists who participated in failed efforts to keep Ramadi, Iraq in the hands of the terrorist group.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided inaccurate location data for at least 22 hospitals in the Afghanistan province of Kabul, placing the health facilities at risk of suffering the same deadly fate as the Doctors Without Borders medical center, according to a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.
Kurdish forces are planning to use a key Syrian military base in northeast Syria to launch an attack on the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS).
The reports of the death of Polish democracy, to paraphrase the oft told line of the eminent American writer, satirist, and political critic Mark Twain, have been greatly exaggerated.
Alain Ghozland, 73, a French Jewish politician from outside of Paris, was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday, with his body showing multiple lacerations that appeared to be stab wounds, according to reports. Mr. Ghozland was a municipal councillor
At least five U.S. citizens, all related, are reportedly trapped in the Syrian mountain town of Madaya where thousands of residents are being starved by Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad and Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah.
A Kuwaiti court has sentenced two men in their 20s to death on charges of spying for the Islamic Republic of Iran and planning terror attacks inside the country.
Venezuela’s Supreme Court has declared the National Assembly, the national legislative body, “void” following the swearing-in of a majority opposition legislature for the first time in 17 years.
Turkish Airlines removed two Russian women from a flight to Bahrain at Atatürk Airport on January 10 due to “unruly behavior.”
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced the suspected bomber in İstanbul is a member of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The pastor of an underground Evangelical church in Camagüey, Cuba, has denounced the communist government for leveling the building in which he holds religious services as a warning to others that openly practicing Christianity on the island will result in government persecution.
In early November, Russian millionaire Mikhail Lesin was found dead in a Washington, D.C., hotel room. Lesin was very useful to Russian President Vladimir Putin in life, and his mysterious demise was extraordinarily well-timed. Two months later, there are still no official answers to questions about how he died or what he was doing in Washington, D.C.
North Korea’s state-controlled media appear to have begun a purge of high-ranking Chinese officials from their records, in a sign that relations between the two communist countries are at an all-time low.
Former London, England, resident Minh Quang Pham pleaded guilty Friday to charges relating to his support for terrorist organization al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and conspiring with terrorist mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.
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RBS has advised clients to brace for a “cataclysmic year” and a global deflationary crisis, warning that major stock markets could fall by a fifth and oil may plummet to $16 a barrel.
