Obama Admin Defends Iran: No Geneva Convention Violation
The Obama administration announced on Thursday that Iran had not violated the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. But it is wrong, as the text of the Convention makes clear.

The Obama administration announced on Thursday that Iran had not violated the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. But it is wrong, as the text of the Convention makes clear.

The government of Saudi Arabia has reportedly released Samar Badawi, a prominent human rights activist who received the “International Woman of Courage Award” in 2012 from then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

January 25 will mark the fifth anniversary of the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and the Tahrir Square uprising that brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power, only to be deposed themselves in turn.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of Nangarhar, which has become the jihadist group’s primary stronghold in the country.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) negotiators have dismissed a March deadline for peace talks with the Colombian government as “naive,” as the terrorist organization demands more concessions from a government looking to end terrorist violence through dialogue.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) fielded the first question of the GOP Debate in Charleston, South Carolina. When he was asked a question about jobs, he took the opportunity to preface his answer by slamming President Barack Obama for ignoring the plight of ten U.S. Navy sailors who had been seized by Iran on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 43 convicted members of al Qaeda has prompted Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the jihadist group, to call for revenge attacks against the Gulf kingdom and its Western allies, according to a U.S.-based organization that monitors jihadi activity.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak of Ebola virus that began in February 2014 officially over, nearly two years after doctors diagnosed the first case of Ebola in this outbreak in a rural town in Guinea.

The U.S. Navy alerted Iran that it was deploying one of its vessels as part of a search and rescue effort for 10 sailors who were off course and allegedly inside Iranian waters, CNN learned from an unnamed U.S. defense

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced Wednesday that American Special Forces troops have landed in Iraq.

Several Iranian newspapers published on Thursday featured lead stories on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’(IRGC) recent seizure of two U.S. boats and a ten sailor crew.

After screening the new movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, the families of the Benghazi dead described the film as a powerful experience that was sometimes difficult for them to watch. They stood by their account of then-Secretary of State Hillary

A 16-year-old boy linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) attempted a “lone cub” attack, trying to kidnap a woman at a mall in Malaysia.

The Defense Department announced Thursday that 10 Yemeni detainees have been set free from Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. All of them were sent to the Gulf state of Oman, the Pentagon said. Less than 100 detainees now remain at the military facility.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It remains uncertain whether or not 10 U.S. Navy sailors defended themselves before they were detained by Iran along with their two boats, according to the Pentagon.

During a CNN interview on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed she could see Iran across the Persian Gulf when she visited Bahrain.

I believe that the ten U.S Navy sailors arrested by Iran on Tuesday had been ordered to surrender and to cooperate with their captors. I believe that because it is the only logical possibility that remains, once the dubious claims being

The Obama administration has continued an effort — started by former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — to further dilute the vetting requirements for visa applicants seeking admission to the U.S., according to Senate Judiciary Committee

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.

A mob of socialists protesting across from Venezuela’s National Assembly pelted journalists with rotten tomatoes and set off fireworks in protest of the new opposition-controlled legislature.

Officials discovered another mass grave in Sinjar, Iraq, containing bodies of Yazidis, including children, who refused to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

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).

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

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

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
