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.
Newly declassified documents from the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 have revealed the late al-Qaeda leader’s remarkable English-language library, including books by Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward and even 9/11 conspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin.
Contents: China’s military confronts US surveillance plane in South China Sea; Claims of ISIS activities in Pakistan doubted by officials; Iran’s Supreme Leader rules out any nuclear inspections
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has again refused resettlement to any of the thousands of asylum seekers caught up in south-east Asia’s growing refugee crisis. He summed up his argument in three words. “Nope, nope, nope,” Abbott replied today when
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke with the BBC about his country’s crisis with Russia. He claimed the country is in a “real war” with Russia and must prepare for a Russian offensive.
President Obama used a commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy Wednesday afternoon to make clear that his administration views climate change as the most severe threat to national security.
Pope Francis addressed parents during his weekly audience Wednesday, strongly emphasizing that it is their role to educate their children, not that of “intellectual critics” who may try to take the place of parents, ousting them from their proper role.
Many experts reckon the first cyberwar is already well under way. It’s not exactly a “cold war,” as the previous generation understood the term, because serious damage valued in millions of dollars has been done, and there’s nothing masked about the hostile intent of state-sponsored hackers. What has been masked is the sponsorship.
The long, ugly farce of President Obama’s “nuclear deal” with Iran drags on, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei essentially voided the entire agreement on Wednesday, declaring Iran would not give international inspectors access to its nuclear sites or nuclear scientists. “A
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gave a genial interview to Der Spiegel this week, with the German magazine describing him as “relaxed and cheerful” throughout. In his relaxed and cheerful way, Zarif continued Iran’s practice of making the Obama administration look foolish, rewriting the so-called “nuclear deal” on the fly and scoffing at the administration’s talking points.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un always gets fidgety when some other global supervillain hogs the spotlight. Having watched Iran mop the floor with President Barack Obama and ISIS turn cities into torture chambers for long enough, Kim decided to announce that his arsenal now includes submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missiles.
In what is being touted as an important victory for anti-terrorist forces in Italy, police have apprehended Abdel Majid Touil, a 22-year-old Moroccan who allegedly participated in the attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis on March 18 that left 22 dead.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune brings us the infuriating story of Hamaz Ahmed, 20, and Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19, two Twin Cities college students who allegedly used federal student loan money to buy plane tickets to the Middle East to join ISIS.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter visited with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and announced the country’s football association did not discriminate against Palestinians and will not receive a suspension.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for the murders he committed when he and his brother blew up the 2013 Boston Marathon. Judging by the case that the government presented against Tsarnaev and its visible effect on the jury, his odds of escaping the needle seemed early on to be less than even. But did the attorneys defending Tsarnaev make a major mistake that cost him his life by failing to tell the jury the entire story of how he decided to do what he did?
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) seized nearly “one-third” of the ancient city Palmyra in Syria after heavy clashes with Bashar al-Assad regime forces and their allies, reported a U.K.-based monitor group.
India’s space program continues to push forward after completing trips to the Moon and Mars. Now, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has plans for Venus and beyond.
In the latest case of ‘vehicular jihad,’ two female Israeli police officers stationed in Jerusalem were injured on Wednesday when a Palestinian man attempted to run them over with his SUV. The Palestinian driver was within close proximity to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem when he drove off the road and struck the cops with his vehicle.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Breitbart News’ National Security Editor, appeared on Fox and Friends Sunday to talk about his experience serving as an expert witness in the Dzokhar Tsarnaev trial.
A London-based defector from the Pakistani Army has been named as the informer who led the United States to Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Brigadier Usman Khalid died last year aged 79 He is now the focus of global media attention
REUTERS– Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes are pressing an attack on ISIS in northeastern Syria that has killed at least 170 members of the jihadi group this week, a Kurdish official and an activist group said Wednesday. The official said Kurdish YPG fighters
Ankara (AFP) – Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Wednesday accused the government of delivering arms to Islamist rebels in Syria, pledging to seal the border to such traffic if he came to power. Turkey has been under fire for
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations and the United States condemned a mortar attack on the Russian embassy in Damascus that did not, however, cause any known injuries. Lithuanian Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite, whose country holds the rotating
The public criticisms of the TPP have been vague. That’s by design—anyone who has read the text of the agreement could be jailed for disclosing its contents.
Compare the pair. Sweden offers full support to any and all returning IS terrorists who make it “home” from battlefields in Iraq and Syria. They are guaranteed jobs, housing, welfare benefits and counselling as official state-sanctioned policy. Now look at Australia. According
The “spectacular brutality” of the Islamic State and raging conflict in the Levant is making the world less settled and more dangerous than it has been for decades. A report by a globally-respected think tank has revealed that despite the
