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
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Russian officials denied reports that the government placed Russian soldiers in Syria and deployed fighter jets. Reports of Russian activity in the war-torn country swarmed the internet this week.
British Islamist preacher Hamza Tzortzis has been in the spotlight numerous times for his outlandish preachings in defense of Islamic extremism.
Earlier this month, coinciding with the seventh anniversary of Russia’s war on Georgia, Dmitri Shashkin, former Georgian defense minister, revealed the role of the Bush administration in stopping the Russian invaders from conquering the whole of the former Soviet Captive Nation.
It’s a pretty low-down trick, you might have thought, to use a harrowing photograph of a dead child to advance your political agenda and signal the depths of your compassion. But almost everyone has been at it over the last
Australia is the only country in the world to successfully tackle the problem of migrant boats. It does this by saying ‘no’ to irregular seafaring arrivals, while at the same time admitting genuine refugees through an orderly process of entry. This,
Five American Orthodox-Jewish tourists mistakenly entered a Palestinian-controlled area in Hebron and immediately found their car being pelted by rocks and Molotov cocktails on Thursday.
The Iran deal will fail to muster enough votes to override an anticipated presidential veto. In the Senate, it may even fail to gather enough votes to stop Democrats from filibustering. The fact that Minority Leader Harry Reid wants to protect his members from having to vote on the Iran deal at all tells us exactly how bad it is. But it also tells us how weak the Republican opposition to the Iran deal has been from the start. And there must be political consequences.
Austin Lewis, a 21-year-old disabled man who requires a wheelchair, was recently denied access to a publicly-subsidized housing apartment due to him not being a Muslim. Lewis sought an apartment in the Ahmadiyya Abode of Peace, a building in Toronto administered by a Muslim organization.
NEW YORK, New York—Demonstrators waving American and Israeli flags gathered in front of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s midtown Manhattan office Tuesday evening to protest her support for the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.
The Beltway press tried to make the passage of President Obama’s nuclear sellout to Iran look like a moment of high political drama, but you could tell their hearts weren’t really in it. Everyone knew this was a done deal from the very beginning, thanks to the efforts of the true “deciding vote,” Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee.
This week, Iranian police arrested merchants for selling clothing emblazoned with the flags of the United States and England and bearing “satanic symbols.”
Iran’s chief of police announced Wednesday that the Islamic Republic will crack down on women who go rogue and do things such as driving without a proper head covering (hijab).
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reportedly said the solution to combating the entrenched corruption endemic at all levels of the government in Afghanistan is to wage “national jihad,” or holy war, against it.
Salim Mikdad’s 480-strong congregation turned up for services at his church in Rwanda last Tuesday, only to be informed the church was now a mosque and they were all converting to Islam.
Saudi Arabia is set to ink an agreement with U.S. government contractor Lockheed Martin for the defense giant to sell two warships to Riyadh.
Union’s (ACLU) Florida Chapter and the Council Of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Florida are suing the state of Florida for purportedly denying Halal meals to Muslim convicts locked up in the Miami-Dade Country prison system.
In a Catholic-Jewish double-header, Pope Francis met in a private audience this morning with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, and later in the morning with Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, accompanied by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
The U.S. State Department, when requesting American taxpayer funds to finance assistance for Afghan refugees in Iran, relies on unverifiable data that a United Nations agency obtains from the Islamic Republic, according to a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.
The International Committee of the Red Cross is warning that denial of water supplies as a weapon of war could trigger an “epidemic” of any number of diseases in Syria, where the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) continues to battle for territory against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops and an array of rebel fighters.
Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mark Warner (D-VA), both considered moderates, announced their support for the Iran deal Thursday.
For the upcoming Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis is hammering home the message of forgiveness, urging all the Catholic priests in the Church to dedicate plenty of time each week to hearing confessions.
The CIA, in collaboration with U.S. Special Operation forces, has embarked on a secret drone campaign to track and kill terrorism suspects in Syria deemed “high-value targets,” namely senior Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, The Washington Post has learned from U.S. officials.
A video of a man performing part of his pilgrimage to Mecca while riding a hoverboard has prompted a debate among Muslims regarding whether the device is permitted. At least one scholar has approved, as long as a disability prevents the man from completing the voyage on foot.
Following multiple reports of Venezuelan soldiers allegedly sexually abusing underaged Colombian girls while deporting them from the country, a young man who was forced to leave his home on the border of both countries claims a group of soldiers molested him after forcefully tearing him away from his family.
