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
ATHENS, July 29 (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday he may have to call an early election to bolster a parliamentary majority that has been strained by bailout reforms demanded by creditors. About three dozen of his
Bahraini officials are accusing Iran of providing the weaponry used Tuesday during a deadly terror attack that killed two policeman in the archipelago nation.
Contents: Iran blamed for terrorist bombing in Bahrain; Puerto Rico expected to default on Saturday; China’s government to continue buying stocks to stabilize markets
Christians living in the Middle East are facing a dire situation in which comparable circumstances have not been observed for over a millennia, a recent study by the Pew Research Center has found, Christianity Today reports. The outlet notes that Christian populations in the Middle East have dwindled from 14 percent to four percent.
Venezuela’s socialist government has run the OPEC nation’s economy to the group, prompting shortages of goods as varied as toilet paper, coffin materials, beer, and water. The shortage has now hit pharmacies, with most pharmacies having completely run out of most forms of contraceptives, particularly birth control pills.
In a graphic video captured Sunday morning, a mother pushed her toddler to safety before falling to her death in the mechanism of a still-running escalator. Two employees tried helping the struggling mother out to no avail.
Israel’s peace negotiator with the Palestinians and his counterpart in the Palestinian Authority held a secret meeting in Jordan last week in an effort to restart peace talks, Ynetnews reports.
Republican members of the House made headlines for grilling Secretary of State John Kerry on the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, but Democrat Rep. Ted Deutch landed a solid punch by noting the Administration is absurdly downplaying how much damage Iran can do with all the money Obama wants to give them, long before they detonate a nuclear bomb.
A Minnesota dentist has been accused of paying more than $50,000 to illegally kill a popular African lion named Cecil, a move that could put the rest of the lion’s pride in danger, Zimbabwe wildlife officials in the country said Tuesday.
Internet security is becoming a major geopolitical issue. This year, Israel’s government established a national authority to help oversee protection of computer systems with sensitive civilian and military information. According to SiliconValley.com, Israel could be the first nation in the world to define mandatory cyberdefense steps for financial institutions.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testified on the Iran nuclear accords before the House Foreign Affairs Committee as Congress deliberates whether they will vote to overturn what is largely seen as a “bad deal.”
Lifting economic sanctions on Iran will allow it to funnel more money to Hezbollah in Latin America, increasing the threat that terrorist group poses to the United States, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) told Breitbart News.
Washington (AFP) – Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy analyst convicted of spying for Israel, will be released on parole November 21 after serving 30 years in prison, his lawyers said Tuesday.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) seeks to unite the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban into a single terrorist army, would like to see al-Qaeda join its ranks, and is planning to provoke an Armageddon-like confrontation with the U.S. by attacking India, according to an apparent ISIS recruitment document.
During his testimony on Tuesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that states may retain their own sanctions against Iran. However, Kerry said, the Obama administration “will take steps” to urge the states “not to interfere.”
The Russian government has started a program to give away land in Siberia in an attempt to stop the population decline.
Last week, Congress kicked off hearings for its 60-day review of President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Despite Administration assurances—given even before the agreement was concluded—Congress would have this review time, Obama rushed the deal to judgment at the U.N. to bind the U.S. internationally before congressional review could be undertaken.
A group of Boko Haram fighters has reportedly approached the Nigerian government requesting “peace talks,” hoping to trade in their weapons for some clemency from President Muhammadu Buhari, despite the group’s mass murder of thousands of Nigerians in village raids and suicide bombings.
In a heated exchange with Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry refused to say whether the Obama administration would commit to Congressionally-imposed sanctions against Iran, should congress overturn a presidential veto on the Iran nuclear deal.
Secretary of State John Kerry told members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs today that Iran possessing a nuclear weapon would not make it a nuclear-armed nation, because “a country doesn’t think of itself as nuclear armed with only one nuclear bomb.”
Australia’s ABC News reports on dictator Bashar al-Assad’s “remarkably frank assessment of the strains affecting the Syrian military.” Assad used his first public address in a year to admit he has lost control of a good deal of his country, and is digging in to defend what his regime has left.
Secretary of State John Kerry misled the House Foreign Affairs Committee in his attempt to defend the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, claiming in his opening statement that Iran had complied with the interim agreement “completely and totally,” and that Iran was “required” by the deal to ratify a key agreement that would prevent it from developing dangerous nuclear technologies in the future. In fact, Iran violated parts of the interim agreement, and there is no guarantee that it will ratify the Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The Islamist government of Tripoli, one of two competing national governments in Libya, has sentenced Saif al-Gaddafi, son of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi, to death. Few expect that sentence to be rendered, least of all the rebels that have kept Gaddafi in captivity and fear handing him over to be killed will only result in his escape.
Nearly 25 percent of the terror suspects prosecuted in the U.S. since 2007 were influenced by Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based affiliate, according to an analysis by the Fordham Law School’s Center on National Security conducted at the request of NBC News.
When the complete history is written of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the dishonesty and duplicity of the Obama White House will be an inescapable fact.
