
An alleged Pakistani terrorist from the Lashker-e-Taiba (LT) Islamist militant group was apprehended in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday after he and an accomplice carried out a deadly attack and hours-long gun battle exchange which killed two members of
by Adelle Nazarian6 Aug 2015, 12:15 PM PST0

The Peruvian Maoist terrorist militia Sendero Luminoso (“Shining Path”), responsible for the death of 25,000 people in the Peruvian countryside in the 1980s and 1990s, may be on the rise again as government officials warn that hundreds remain enslaved and forced to produce food and child soldiers for the group.
by Frances Martel6 Aug 2015, 12:03 PM PST0

The Obama administration says it may reconsider the use of parole for certain Syrian nationals in addition to its Syrian refugee resettlement effort.
by Caroline May6 Aug 2015, 11:45 AM PST0

21-year-old Afghan pilot Niloofar Rahmani says she has been driven to the verge of quitting by the Taliban and her own extended family.
by John Hayward6 Aug 2015, 11:28 AM PST0

A boat laden with refugees sank Thursday morning thirty miles off the Libyan coast, just 15 miles from where another vessel had capsized Wednesday. In Wednesday’s incident, at least 25 drowned, while in the more recent shipwreck, all 381 passengers were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.6 Aug 2015, 11:02 AM PST0

In direct contrast to the Muslim Brotherhood regime that ruled Egypt just a couple of years ago, the new government in Cairo under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has built a cordial relationship with the Jewish people and has remained an honest broker in negotiating mutually beneficial agreements with the State of Israel.
by Jordan Schachtel6 Aug 2015, 10:40 AM PST0

Democrat Rep. Susan Davis of California says she is undecided on the Iran deal. Davis Press Secretary Aaron Hunter told Breitbart News, “She is doing her due diligence regarding the agreement and is currently undecided.”
by Michelle Moons6 Aug 2015, 10:38 AM PST0

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Iranians on Thursday to dismiss President Obama’s speech on the Iranian nuclear deal, for it was intended for a domestic audience of “Zionists” that needed to be “calmed.”
by John Hayward6 Aug 2015, 10:20 AM PST0

The Egyptian branch of ISIS has kidnapped a 30-year-old Croatian named Tomislav Salopek, who was in Egypt on business as an employee of French geology firm CGG, and is threatening to murder him within 48 hours if the Egyptian government does not release Muslim women from its jails. It is not clear exactly which Muslim women the terrorist group wants freed, as there is no shortage of them in Egyptian prisons, following the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood.
by John Hayward6 Aug 2015, 10:04 AM PST0

Authorities in China’s Zhejiang province are enforcing a ban on crosses topping the region’s more than 4,000 Christian churches’ spires, roofs, and walls.
by Michael Lucchese6 Aug 2015, 10:00 AM PST0

Add Hillary Clinton mega-donor and billionaire philanthropist Haim Saban to the list of liberal democrats who oppose the nuclear deal with Iran.
by Jordan Schachtel6 Aug 2015, 9:17 AM PST0

The radical leftist party Podemos (“We Can”) that took Spain by storm last year is suffering major poll losses leading into Spain’s parliamentary elections in November, a new government poll shows, as Spanish observers grow wary of socialism following the decline of the Greek economy.
by Frances Martel6 Aug 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

Seventy years ago, the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by Paul Tibbets, Jr., dropped an atomic bomb, Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
by Jarrett Stepman6 Aug 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

If the Iran deal guarantees war–as argued by a former adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu–then the question is when.
by Joel B. Pollak6 Aug 2015, 7:42 AM PST0

A new raid on several villages in northern Cameroon by Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram has left at least eight dead and 135 others missing.
by Frances Martel6 Aug 2015, 7:32 AM PST0

Al-Qaeda has been replaced by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as the number one threat to the U.S. homeland, argue members of President Obama’s top intelligence, counterterrorism, and law enforcement team, who focus on national threats, reports The News York Times (NYT).
by Edwin Mora6 Aug 2015, 6:54 AM PST0

The Iran deal will “likely and necessarily” lead to war, according to Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
by Joel B. Pollak6 Aug 2015, 6:41 AM PST0

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Conservative Andrzej Duda was sworn in as Poland’s new president Thursday, bringing political change to the nation’s top office. However, confusion surrounded the absence from the ceremony of European Union leader and former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk.
by AP6 Aug 2015, 6:30 AM PST0

Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, hit back at President Barack Obama for a speech Wednesday in which he defended the Iran deal by claiming that Republicans are making “common cause” with the hard-liners of the Iranian regime.
by Adelle Nazarian6 Aug 2015, 6:07 AM PST0

Contents: Hundreds of migrant deaths in Mediterranean highlight Libya-Calais relationship; U.S.-trained Free Syrian Army’s Division 30 suffers major defeat; US program to train rebels in Syria appears flawed from the start
by John J. Xenakis6 Aug 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

As a caring, sensitive, non-racist person, one of the things I often ask myself when mulling over tricky moral issues is: “What would Madiba* have done?” (* see note below) One such moral conundrum has been the killing of Cecil,
by James Delingpole6 Aug 2015, 3:09 AM PST0

In his latest book, Christian Persecution in the Middle East: A 21st Century Tragedy, author George J. Marlin explores the fall of Christianity in its birthplace, documenting the suffering of those people who face death simply for being a Christian.
by Mary Chastain5 Aug 2015, 10:08 PM PST0

The Arab states have opposed the Iran deal from a very early stage, seeing Iran’s regional ambitions as a direct threat. As negotiations went on, Saudi Arabia and other states were vocal and demonstrative in their protests, and warned that they, too, might seek nuclear weapons.
by Joel B. Pollak5 Aug 2015, 9:28 PM PST0

Iran is sanitizing a military site believed to have been used for nuclear weapons research in the past. Testing of the site by the IAEA is one of the final hurdles Iran has to clear to gain sanction relief, and the U.S. intelligence community has evidence Iran is trying to cheat on those tests.
by John Sexton5 Aug 2015, 8:51 PM PST0

In a strongly worded statement to American Catholics, Pope Francis declared that marriage between one man and one woman is “under attack from powerful cultural forces,”
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Aug 2015, 7:19 PM PST0