
The latest would-be ISIS recruits are a couple from Mississippi, 19-year-old Jaelyn Delshaun Young and 21-year-old Muhammad Oda Daklalla. According to an unsealed criminal complaint reported by ABC News, “The FBI says the couple planned for months to travel to Turkey in order to slip into Syria and join ISIS.”
by John Hayward11 Aug 2015, 2:59 PM PST0

Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday that the U.S. Dollar may “cease” to be the world’s reserve currency should Congress vote to re-apply sanctions to the dictatorial Islamic regime in Tehran.
by Jordan Schachtel11 Aug 2015, 2:32 PM PST0

A vote against the Iran deal will not bring war, in spite of what President Barack Obama says.
by Joel B. Pollak11 Aug 2015, 1:40 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has developed a new method for murdering prisoners: forcing them to kneel on buried explosives. That is the treatment ISIS militants gave to ten “apostates,” according to the UK Daily Mail. Even more disturbing, these executions were carried out not in Iraq or Syria, but Afghanistan, where ISIS has been working to establish a presence.
by John Hayward11 Aug 2015, 12:36 PM PST0

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced this week that the country can take at least 10,000 Syrian refugees if his Conservative government is reelected in October.
by Mary Chastain11 Aug 2015, 11:58 AM PST0

The U.S Coast Guard announced this week that they have seized more cocaine on the Pacific high seas in the past ten months than in the past three years combined, a total of 32 metric tons of cocaine.
by Frances Martel11 Aug 2015, 11:33 AM PST0

Maria Gabriela Chávez, the most prominent of late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez’s four children, is believed to be the wealthiest person in Venezuela, with a reported net worth nearing $4.2 billion.
by Frances Martel11 Aug 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has released human rights activist Mazen Darwish “in a rare goodwill gesture” after holding him for three years. A verdict for his case should be released later this month.
by Mary Chastain11 Aug 2015, 10:10 AM PST0

The two men leading Huffington Post’s new Arabic-language site have in the past been accused of having direct involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and radical clerics; and one has openly expressed disturbing and conspiratorial anti-Semitic views.
by Jordan Schachtel11 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM PST0

In the aftermath of the July 16th Chattanooga murders claiming the lives of five U.S. servicemen and the FBI’s findings concerning the killer’s motivation, we desperately need a correct diagnosis to be made as to cause. Unfortunately, both the media and our government refuse to give it.
by James Zumwalt11 Aug 2015, 8:34 AM PST0

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter named Mamend Rasul claims that, while he was off fighting against ISIS, serving as a company commander, a force supported by the Western powers and heavily relied upon to keep the rapacious terror state in check, Turkish F-16s bombed the Iraqi village of Zergaly where his family lived, killing his 63-year-old sister, 61-year-old brother, and a cousin.
by John Hayward11 Aug 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

The Chinese Ministry of Culture, through state media outlet Xinhua, has published a “blacklist” of 120 songs banned from being played or sold in China for their “obscenity, violence, crime” or potential to “harm social morality.” Anyone caught trafficking in this music will receive “severe punishment,” the government says.
by Frances Martel11 Aug 2015, 8:06 AM PST0

Between 2010 and 2015 Germany profited from the ongoing Greek debt crisis to the sum of €100 billion, according to a new study. The billions consists of money saved by lower interest payments on funds the German government borrowed amid investor “flights
by Sarkis Zeronian11 Aug 2015, 8:01 AM PST0

BEIJING (AP) — China devalued its tightly controlled currency Tuesday following a slump in trade, allowing the yuan’s biggest one-day decline in a decade.
by Breitbart News11 Aug 2015, 7:12 AM PST0

The states of Michigan, Kansas, and Missouri are considering new sanctions against the Iranian regime and companies doing business with it–whatever the fate of the Iran deal in Congress.
by Joel B. Pollak11 Aug 2015, 6:52 AM PST0

A year on from the Islamic State offensive that brought the slaughter of thousands of Yazidis on Mount Sinjar and left many thousands more trapped, the Iraqi MP who first told the world of their plight has said that still
by Donna Rachel Edmunds11 Aug 2015, 6:09 AM PST0

San Diego Congressman Scott Peters is sticking to a position of “undecided” on the Iran deal despite growing Democratic Party opposition that includes influential Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).
by Michelle Moons11 Aug 2015, 5:48 AM PST0

Contents: Wave of violent terrorist attacks strike across Turkey; Vladimir Putin increasingly trapped as Russia’s GDP plunges 4.6%; Europe’s bond yields go negative
by John J. Xenakis11 Aug 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

UKIP’s Mike Hookem was threatened with a gun in a migrant camp in Dunkirk yesterday afternoon. The incident happened in the same camp widely reported to be controlled by a brazen South London gangster turned people smuggler. “Just been threatened
by Liam Deacon11 Aug 2015, 3:11 AM PST0

A representative for Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) told Breitbart News on Monday that he is not yet ready to announce his decision to support or oppose the Iran deal.
by Daniel Nussbaum11 Aug 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

The United Nations security council unanimously voted to adopt a resolution to investigate if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against innocent civilians. However, the honeymoon did not last long when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blasted these claims.
by Mary Chastain10 Aug 2015, 8:57 PM PST0

As mentioned last week, President Obama’s desultory attempt to influence the bloody chaos in Syria with a mere handful of U.S.-trained and equipped Syrian rebels brought contempt and stunned disbelief from across the Arab world.
by John Hayward10 Aug 2015, 8:23 PM PST0

The U.S. pledged $500,000 to the Baltics in order to combat Russian propaganda. The 12-month project will help train beginning and established Russian-language journalists.
by Mary Chastain10 Aug 2015, 6:42 PM PST0

Orange County resident Adam Dandach pled guilty Monday to charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS) and making a false statement on a passport application.
by Michelle Moons10 Aug 2015, 6:32 PM PST0

Jonathan Chait of New York magazine attempts to defend President Barack Obama from charges that he is using antisemitism to sell the Iran deal.
by Joel B. Pollak10 Aug 2015, 5:51 PM PST0