In an early morning ambush, Islamic terrorists of the radical al-Shabaab group attacked an African Union military base in southern Somalia Friday, breaching the walls by exploding a car bomb and overrunning the base. According to the officials of the
Contents: Thunderstorms in Tianjin China may release hydrogen cyanide Report: Comprehensive Hamas – Israel peace agreement is ‘imminent’; Perpetrator unknown for bombing in downtown Bangkok Thailand
A couple of weeks ago on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions I was singing the praises of Britain’s most likely future Opposition leader. The brilliant thing if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour party leadership race, I argued, is that by
A small device was thrown into a canal and exploded near a busy train station in central Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon, police said, a day after a bomb killed 20 at a religious shrine (pictured above). “No one was killed or
Race relations in Scotland are under grave threat from the “perceived” disproportionate targeting of Muslim and Asian travelers in airport security checks, according to a new study. The study by Durham University’s sociology department found that Muslims in Scotland broadly
The United States has announced that its Patriot defensive missile batteries will be pulled from Turkey and “redeployed” to the U.S. this fall, ostensibly to receive “critical modernization upgrades” following a “review of global missile defense posture,” as the U.S. Embassy in Turkey put it.
As Europe’s migrant crisis continues to worsen, Turkey has stood out as the country that continues to be targeted as a bridge to the continent, largely due to its geographic location.
A U.S. military judge called off a pretrial hearing for five Guantánamo Bay detainees accused of playing a role in the Sept. 11 attacks against the American homeland, said a Pentagon spokesman.
CHARLES CITY, VIRGINIA— A campaign led by supporters of the Iran deal was supposed to make its way Monday into the rural Virginia district held by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), but nobody showed up.
Last week, South Korea blamed the North for land mine explosions that maimed two South Korean soldiers and resumed propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years in retaliation. North Korea has denied the accusations and threatened to launch strikes on South Korean loudspeakers.
The struggle against deeply entrenched misogyny in Afghanistan continues years after heavy international community and Afghan government investments in women’s education began, following the defeat of the Taliban at the hands of U.S.-led forces in 2001.
The Chinese government has ramped up censorship operations in light of the massive chemical explosion in Tianjin, publishing a report in which they accuse fifty websites of “creating panic” by “publishing unverified information” about the nature of the blast and the company storing the chemicals that exploded.
Wind is blowing China’s air pollution over and across the Pacific and into the United States–and the West Coast is receiving the brunt of its smoggy emissions.
MSN (Microsoft Service Network) has taken down an anti-Semitic article that was re-posted late Sunday from a Middle East news network. The piece, titled “Extreme Zionist Media,” pushed anti-Semitic conspiracies theories, theorizing that the plight of Palestinians is largely ignored because the media is “owned and controlled by the Jews.”
Canada’s state-broadcaster, the CBC, described the #BlackLivesMatter movement as a “worldwide rallying cry” and “digital civil rights movement,” connecting two police-related deaths of black men in Canada to the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Sandra Bland.
Egyptian Education Minister Moheb Al-Refaei over the weekend decried the Islamic hijab worn by girls as “unacceptable,” leading to rumors the Ministry would ban the garment from elementary schools. A spokesperson from the Ministry denied this claim on Egyptian television Sunday night.
On Monday, 340 liberal rabbis offered their support to the Iran deal in a letter to Congress.
More than 100 people were killed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regime airstrikes on a heavily trafficked market northeast of Damascus on Sunday, making it one of the deadliest attacks of the four-year civil war, according to a monitor group.
The Obama administration warned the Chinese government to follow United States laws when using covert agents in the U.S. to pressure expatriates to return to China. The warning comes a month before President Xi Jingping’s state visit to Washington, D.C.
The U.S.-backed unit of moderate Syrian rebels effectively disintegrated, following several kidnappings by the al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front. The group has agreed to release 7 of its prisoners, in an announcement in which the freed refer to the al-Qaeda thugs as brothers.
The second video from Veterans Against the Deal introduces Patrick Farr, whose son, Army Spc. Clay Farr, was killed by an Iranian made bomb in Iraq in 2006. Mr. Farr says the Obama Administration “must not really care about what Iran has done on the terrorism front, killing American soldiers. They’ve just completely forgotten.”
Even as the Western intelligentsia continue to focus upon the fake and inflated refugee crisis among Palestinians, the world’s real refugee crisis– Christians and Yezidis persecuted by ISIS– has become both overwhelming and hidden in plain sight.
At the time of writing, no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing that occurred in Thailand earlier today. But it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who might be responsible. Of six major terrorist attacks in the past
New details of the history of the Iran deal talks that the Obama administration eagerly sought talks with the Iranian regime, granting it the “right” to enrich uranium at the outset.
Osama bin Laden left behind over 1,500 cassette tapes after he fled Afghanistan in 2001. The tapes show the radical Islamist responsible for the murder of over 4,000 Americans admired non-violent Mahatma Gandhi and a Jewish singer.
The head of Cuba’s delegation to negotiate “normalization” with the United States has vowed that Cuba will not “move one millimeter” on issues such as its rampant human rights violations in talks with American officials. This follows Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to the island for the opening of the American embassy in Havana.
