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.
In late January, America lost two of her finest during a helicopter training mission at 29 Palms in California. U.S. Marine Corps Major Elizabeth Kealey and Captain Adam Satterfield served their country with honor and were remembered at a recent
The Libyan Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, in an exclusive interview, warned that the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) has consolidated control over coastal territory in northern Libya that can serve as a platform for terrorist attacks on Europe.
Former Harvard Law School professor and renowned defense attorney Alan Dershowitz has slammed President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats over their efforts to undermine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress next week. In an op-ed to be published in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, Dershowitz accuses “Obama of direct intrusion on the power of Congress and on the constitutional separation of powers” in his objections to the speech.
The brother of an American woman who was killed after spending months as a hostage of Islamic State militants says Kayla Mueller’s situation worsened after the government traded five Taliban commanders for a captive U.S. soldier.
Obama, as his critics have suggested for years, is perfectly willing to let Iran go nuclear, so long as he delays that eventuality for a short duration.
The latest setback for terrorist finances is a $218.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization for their role in injuring ten American families, a judgment tripled to a whopping $655 million under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barakat, wrestled a Palestinian knife-wielding terrorist to the ground over the weekend and, with the assistance of his bodyguard, held the jihadist down until police arrived on the scene.
The Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) jihadist group is reportedly planning to declare an Islamic emirate in Lebanon, security sources told a Lebanese news outlet.
While Italy’s government gears up for serious confrontation following ISIS threats to “conquer Rome,” putting the country on high alert and upping security at “sensitive targets,” the Italian rank and file are responding in a typically Italian way: with ridicule.
Following the now-debunked media hoax that many within Norway’s Muslim community linked arms and formed a 1000-strong “peace ring” around an Oslo synagogue over the weekend, the Times of Israel revealed that the event’s organizers hold extremist views when it comes to the root causes of Islamic terrorism in Europe.
Outside the White House, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says President Obama is incapable of being commander-in-chief because he’s not willing to take the steps needed to defeat radical Islamic terrorism.
The Egyptian president said last weekend that the need for a “unified Arab force” is growing daily as the region faces threats from jihadists such as the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL).
The suicide of Air Force Reserve Captain Jamie Brunette appears to have stunned her family and friends even more than such tragic events usually do, because as the Tampa Tribune reports, she was upbeat, energetic, and had a lot to look forward to, including a new fitness center she was a partner in.
The Turkish government has evacuated the site of the Tomb of Süleyman Şah and relocated the tomb’s priceless artifacts to protect it from the Islamic State. The Syrian government is calling the move a “flagrant aggression,” as Turkey did not request permission to traverse sovereign Syrian territory to reach the tomb.
A clear trend emerges when President Obama discusses religion. When discussing Islam, it is within the sole context of a “peaceful religion.” When discussing other religions, it is within the context of their once having fostered hatred and violence, as he said at the National Prayer Breakfast and the Summit to Counter Violent Extremism (SCVE).
The Islamic State has released a new video advertising its “Farouk Institute for Cubs,” a new training camp designed to teach young boys the basics of both radical Islam and warfare. Unlike many of its videos depicting child soldiers, this video shows dozens of child soldiers in combat uniforms and handling weapons.
In a recent essay in the Daily Beast, Candida Moss and Joel Baden question Pope Francis’ liberal credentials, denouncing his attacks on gender theory.
CNN reports on the latest ISIS propaganda video, which features 21 captured Kurdish fighters paraded through the streets of an Iraqi city (evidently near Kirkuk) in cages ominously similar to the one that held Jordanian pilot Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh when he was burned alive.
The Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar University, who is perhaps the most prominent cleric in Egypt, has called for the crucial need for reform in the teaching of Islam to the country’s people.
Economist Nicholas Eberstadt lays out a bleak future in an important essay just published in The Wall Street Journal. Eberstadt makes the case that selfishness, as evidenced by the unwillingness of people to get married in the first place and stay married in the second, is setting humanity on an unknown and potentially dangerous course.
A British soldier who left his base to fight Islamic State has been found, the Defence Secretary has said. Sky News reports that Michael Fallon said the 19-year-old was being returned to his unit after disappearing to join Kurdish fighters
Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the national morality police, arrested a group of young men for dancing and playing loud music at a birthday party in Buraydah.
In a weekend during which House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared from Havana that Congressional Democrats had a “great enthusiasm” for lifting what is left of the American embargo in Cuba, the Cuban government reportedly arrested more than 200 dissidents across the island for attempting to attend Catholic mass.
A study titled “National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students 2014,” conducted in the spring of 2014 by Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, revealed that over half of Jewish college students have experienced anti-Semitism on campus.
On Sunday, Pope Francis spoke about the Christian season of lent, the period of prayer and penance leading up to Holy Week and Easter. “Lent,” said the Pope, “is a time of combat” and “a time of spiritual battle against the spirit of evil.”
