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.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino is set to land in Japan on Tuesday following initial negotiations for new weapons trade deals and closer military ties. Observers see the move as a preventative measure in the face of China’s expanded efforts in disputed South China Sea territory to build military facilities and artificial islands, violating international law.
During a recent Vatican conference centered on the challenges women face throughout the world, Pope Francis used the words of Pope Benedict to affirm the link between the Church’s teachings on the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death and those regarding social ethics.
You may not have noticed, as ISIS expands its reach across Iraq and Russia fuels conflict in Ukraine, but the odds of an armed confrontation between the United States and China just dramatically increased.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than 680 people in South Korea have been isolated after having contact with patients infected with a virus that has killed hundreds of people in the Middle East, health officials said Monday. South Korea
Statistics from the most recent Gallup poll indicate that Americans’ moral views have become increasingly liberal over the past 14 years, with U.S. citizens tending to approve of behavior they would have deemed immoral or sinful just a generation ago.
With one month left for talks, news has emerged that the P5+1–six powers negotiating with Iran (Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany and the U.S.)–have reached a deal on “snap-back” Iran sanctions–i.e. sanctions that would be removed as part of a nuclear deal but which would automatically be restored if Iran broke the agreement, due June 30. Reuters suggested that all that remained was for Iran to agree, and a major obstacle would be gone. Yet the snap-back “deal” has three fatal flaws.
Contents: Report: Russia may end support for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad; Russia searches for a plan for a post-Assad Syria; Greece faces new financial crisis with no solution in sight
Tara Nettleton, the wife of Australian Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, announced she wants to come back to Australia. However, Prime Minister Tony Abbott issued a harsh warning that the family will face punishment for their crimes.
The Associated Press cites a release from the official Saudi Press Agency to report a second suicide bomb attack against a Shiite mosque in the Kingdom. At least four people were killed in the Friday attack.
Contents: US-China tensions in South China Sea take another step upward; EU rescues 4300 migrants in one day as country quotas are enacted
For the second time in a week, Pope Francis blasted abortion on Saturday, referring to it as a “scourge” and insisting that “a just society recognizes the primacy of the right to life from conception to natural death.”
The principle of non-violence is central to Buddhist teachings, but in Sri Lanka some Buddhist monks are being accused of stirring up hostility towards other faiths and ethnic minorities. Their hard line is causing increasing concern.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bicycle crash Sunday, apparently after hitting a curb, and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international conference on combating the Islamic State group.
A senior backbench Conservative has attacked his own party’s defence policy record since 2010. In an interview with The Independent on Sunday Tory MP Dr Julian Lewis credited the previous Labour government with being more “strategic” on the future of the armed
Following a rocky year in their often-delicate relationship, France and Morocco have announced they will cooperate on counter-terrorist activities — especially in light of the ISIS threat, whose militants has been recruiting Muslims in both countries.
BBC: Two opposing campaigns arguing about what women should wear are gripping the Arab world.
BBC: China’s top court said it has executed a primary school teacher found guilty of raping or sexually abusing 26 girls.
NATIONAL JOURNAL: If this were Iraq or Syria, these attacks—sadly—wouldn’t be surprising. But it’s not. It’s Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s most precious sites and the region’s most powerful Sunni rulers—a relatively vast territory, kept remarkably stable by the ruthless application of authoritarian rule while its neighbors teeter under the destabilizing weight of popular revolution and terrorist intervention.
VICE NEWS: Boko Haram militants reportedly fired rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) during an attack early Saturday morning in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri that left at least 30 people dead. A suicide bomber also targeted a mosque near the city’s main market on Saturday afternoon, reportedly killing at least 16 people.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College in London has released a study on the reasons behind women in the West joining the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), and found that a feeling of “sisterhood” was just as much of a draw as finding a mujahid groom.
Contents: ISIS suicide bombers strike Shia mosques in Saudi Arabia and Baghdad; ISIS continues to gain supporters throughout the Mideast
After years of political apathy toward the beleaguered Nigerian northeast, hardest hit by the jihadist group Boko Haram, recently elected President Muhammadu Buhari is invigorating Nigerians with promises of determined military action against their enemy.
Gunmen disguised as members of the Pakistani security forces killed at least 22 passengers on Friday night after forcing them off buses traveling from the western city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, officials said.
Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, trained by both Russian and American special forces to head up the elite OMON police force of Tajikistan, has defected to the Islamic State.
“A 22-year-old Arab citizen of Israel and resident of Umm al-Fahm, located in the ‘triangle’ region of northern Israel which is home to over 300,000 Arab citizens, was indicted on Thursday for supporting the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization,” reports Israel National News. “The indictment was submitted against Jamal Suleiman Abu Ra’ad, who was found thanks to an unusual investigative method – looking at his Facebook page.”
