Search-and-rescue operations are under way off the coast of Hawaii after two Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters on a nighttime training mission collided, with six people aboard each aircraft.
Following news of reconciliation with the Cuban communist regime, Reuters is reporting that the Obama administration has been engaging in secret diplomacy with the dictatorship currently governing Venezuela, hoping to reestablish ties with socialist President Nicolás Maduro and negotiate the freedom of political prisoner Leopoldo López.
Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, may have killed up to 148 people and “at least” 97 in northeastern Borno State, specifically targeting evening prayers by Muslims in order to maximize their death toll.
The 17-year-old boy confirmed dead of the Ebola virus in Liberia, ending a 49-day Ebola-free streak for the nation, may be a second patient zero, and not the victim of the Ebola outbreak that began in February 2014 and has taken thousands of lives since then.
Federal and state law enforcement entities are enhancing security measures and taking action to prevent terrorist attacks on Fourth of July.
A new poll commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows anti-Semitism in France is in dramatic decline, also dropping in Germany and Belgium, but the news is not universally good. The same poll showed that more than half of all Muslims in Western Europe
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) made advances in Egypt as it launched a wave of attacks in restive North Sinai province despite a government crackdown against jihadi elements in the country, various new agencies report.
As Norway’s exposure to home-grown jihadis grows, a 24-year-old Norwegian faces up to nine years in prison for “support for a terrorist organisation” having been accused of pledging allegiance to one or both of Islamic State (IS) and an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria. Some
Sunday, Greeks should vote “No!”
WASHINGTON–The police have given the D.C. Navy Yard the all-clear after putting it on full lockdown as they responded to reports of a shots being fired. The shots were reported in building 197 around 7:30 AM. Employees had been evacuated.
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The old courthouse in central Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and the birthplace of the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi, is a shelled-out ruin – a testimony to the destruction and chaos that permeate this North African country four years after the civil war that ousted the longtime dictator.
Athens (AFP) – Greece’s radical left government said Thursday it may resign if it fails to win a referendum that could decide the country’s financial future.
The Greek government said on Wednesday it had no plans to cut defence spending, appearing to contradict a letter sent by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to creditors a day earlier offering to “reduce the expenditure ceiling for military spending”.
(AFP) Egyptian curator Medhat Abdallah laughs when reminded of the “curse of Tutankhamun” as he cleans an ancient gilded bed found in the boy king’s burial chamber nearly a century ago.
The Obama administration has yet to question American Alan Gross about his lengthy imprisonment in Cuba–six months after he returned home in a prisoner swap that set the stage for full normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations this week, the Daily Beast reports. Though Gross spent more than five years in a Cuban prison, and could potentially provide valuable intelligence on the regime, as well as information about political prisoners, the Obama administration showed no interest.
Washington (AFP) – America’s new military strategy singles out states like China and Russia as aggressive and threatening to US security interests, while warning of growing technological challenges and worsening global stability.
Contents: Egypt in a ‘state of war’ in northern Sinai; Israel approves Egypt’s military buildup in Sinai; Kuwait in ‘state of war’ with ISIS, will require nationwide DNA testing
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lockdown was underway Thursday morning across the Washington Navy Yard campus after reports of shots fired, but a senior law enforcement official said those reports had not been confirmed.
Under President Obama’s stated policy to fundamentally transform America, our influence on and leadership of the free world has not only been diminished but openly challenged by the likes of China, Russia and Iran. Our unilateral disarmament has only compounded the problem. Furthermore, our allies don’t trust us, and our enemies don’t fear us. That is the worst possible combination.
International reserves, which measure global savings available for financial market investment, have fallen twice this century: once in the first quarter of 2009, and once in the fourth quarter of 2014. That most recent reserve drop is causing some analysts to warn that conditions for a crash may be building.
Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon’s speech at the Royal United Services Institute Land Warfare conference yesterday took an unexpected turn as he sidetracked from the important subject of Army cuts onto PC quotas and minorities in the forces. Speaking
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has significantly expanded its footprint in Yemen over the last year, posing a challenge to its rival al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), reports Reuters. ISIS’s ranks have been bolstered with new members amid the messy war in Yemen between Iran-allied Shiite Houthis and a Saudi-led coalition of Sunni Arab nations.
In a coordinated blitz early Wednesday morning, the Italian counterterrorism police (“Digos”) arrested three Italian Islamists and an Albanian in three different northern Italian cities as special units of the Albanian police made a connected arrest in Albania.
A massive prison break in Yemen freed nearly 1,200 detainees, including some suspected al-Qaeda militants.
A Palestinian artist who painted an LGBT rainbow on a security wall in the West Bank has angered many within the area, where homosexuality is illegal.
The latest report from the United Nations on South Sudan states the armed forces raped and burned females alive. The world’s newest country is still in a civil war.
