
The island of Cuba has been rightly seen as the last major stronghold of real Marxism in the world, but as Communism loses its grip, the long atheistic winter seems to be giving way to a springtime of spirituality. When Cuban
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Jun 2015, 1:51 AM PST0

Belgian police announced an investigation after photographs surfaced of two men celebrating in the autopsy room of two dead terrorists.
by Mary Chastain4 Jun 2015, 9:58 PM PST0

After outcry from supporters, Instagram restored an account dedicated to memorializing the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamist revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The account, which has over 100,000 followers according to some media reports, has posted over 600 photos of the late cleric and revolutionary.
by Michael Lucchese4 Jun 2015, 9:19 PM PST0

The French government has released some stunning figures to illustrate the intensity of ISIS recruiting efforts in their country. There are at least 2,600 websites in French, run by the terror state and its supporters, and they generate over 40,000 Twitter messages per day, reaching some 2.8 million followers.
by John Hayward4 Jun 2015, 8:28 PM PST0

Gunmen killed two members of the Egyptian tourist police force and injured a conscript in front of the Giza Pyramids outside of Cairo on Tuesday.
by Michael Lucchese4 Jun 2015, 8:03 PM PST0

AAP reports that Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said her government would consider sending more troops to help battle ISIS in Iraq, but the Iraqis have been oddly slow to request assistance, even as the Islamic State overruns cities and begins lining up an attack on Baghdad.
by John Hayward4 Jun 2015, 7:17 PM PST0

The Ontario Provincial Police have completed a report on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) response to jihadi gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who attacked Parliament Hill last October and murdered Corporal Nathan Cirillo.
by John Hayward4 Jun 2015, 7:05 PM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A Department of Defense (DoD) lab sent out live samples of anthrax to 51 other laboratories in 17 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Australia, South Korea, and Canada, Pentagon officials told reporters on Wednesday.
by Edwin Mora4 Jun 2015, 6:35 PM PST0

This could be one of the most devastating blows yet struck in the shadowy First Cyber War. The Associated Press reports “the Obama administration is scrambling to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records.”
by John Hayward4 Jun 2015, 3:24 PM PST0

The Syrian army is defunct and the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria is “100 yards” from the country’s border with Israel, an unidentified senior Israeli army officer said, The Times of Israel reports.
by Edwin Mora4 Jun 2015, 2:02 PM PST0

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed his new government will investigate the military in response to an extensive Amnesty International Report claiming that thousands of Boko Haram suspects, some as young as nine years old, were tortured, starved, or extrajudicially executed in the past five years.
by Frances Martel4 Jun 2015, 11:41 AM PST0

Chinese filmmakers have signed Bruce Willis to a major role in a new World War II epic titled The Bombing, which is now in production, Variety reports.
by Kelli Serio4 Jun 2015, 11:38 AM PST0

The Islamic State has issued some bizarre edicts in the past – the Poultry Jihad against “infidel chicken,” for example – but their new ban against pigeon breeding, because the sight of pigeon genitals while the birds are in flight supposedly offends Allah, takes the prize.
by John Hayward4 Jun 2015, 10:51 AM PST0

Reports from Kurdish fighters on the front lines in Iraq and Syria allege that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is offering anyone within lands the group has conquered $150,000 for the capture or killing of a foreign national fighting against ISIS, whether with the Kurdish Peshmerga or another anti-ISIS militia.
by Frances Martel4 Jun 2015, 8:46 AM PST0

In the wake of the Bruce Jenner story—the most celebrated gender reassignment in the short history of the procedure—female Anglican clergy members have begun quietly campaigning for a similar sex change of the divinity into a female.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.4 Jun 2015, 8:21 AM PST0

Never one to retreat from controversy, San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has weighed in on the trans-Jenner debate, arguing that men don’t suddenly become women just through a physical operation, cross-dressing or being addressed with new names.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.4 Jun 2015, 8:02 AM PST0

Seventy-five years ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood before Parliament and delivered his “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech, arguably the finest oration of his career.
by Jarrett Stepman4 Jun 2015, 7:49 AM PST0

Philippine President Benigno Aquino, in remarks made Wednesday at a public event, compared China’s incursions into Philippine and Vietnamese land in the South China Sea to Nazi Germany’s push into the Sudetenland, calling for the United States to intervene and keep China out of their sovereign territory before it was too late.
by Frances Martel4 Jun 2015, 7:44 AM PST0

(Reuters) A radical Islamist Salafist group posted a statement on Twitter on Thursday claiming responsibility for firing three rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip.
by Reuters4 Jun 2015, 7:24 AM PST0

CBS News reports a familiar name was on the list of beheading victims for Boston jihadi Usaama Abdullah Rahim and his accomplices: Pamela Geller, whose Mohammed Art Exhibit in Garland, Texas was attacked by heavily armed terrorists.
by John Hayward4 Jun 2015, 7:15 AM PST0

(Reuters) Saudi-led air strikes killed a group of around 20 Houthi fighters outside the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Wednesday and also shook the capital Sanaa in the north, militiamen opposed to the Houthis said.
by Reuters4 Jun 2015, 6:31 AM PST0

SEOUL, June 3 (UPI) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s chronic weight gain is drawing concern, but it may not be linked to a serious illness, an analyst told UPI on Wednesday.
by UPI4 Jun 2015, 6:29 AM PST0

SINJAR, Iraq– Yazidi men and women are taking up arms and joining the Peshmerga to help in defeating Islamic State, as thousands of refugees continue to take shelter on Sinjar Mountain, ten months after President Obama declared the mountain had evaded humanitarian disaster.
by Tera Dahl4 Jun 2015, 6:21 AM PST0

Russian success in Ukraine could precipitate a collapse of both NATO and the EU as well as signalling the end of the post-Cold War global order, a world-respected think-tank has warned. In what should be a sharp wake-up call for
by Oliver Lane4 Jun 2015, 6:07 AM PST0

The Boston terror suspect shot dead by a cop was planning to behead controversial anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller, a report suggests.
by Breitbart News4 Jun 2015, 5:25 AM PST0