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.
An investigation into the finances of the Islamic State has shown one of its largest sources of funding is now a tax placed on artefacts stolen from museums in captured territory, which are then smuggled out of the country and
Taliban claims responsibility for bombing in Lahore, Pakistan; Russians ignore Ukraine ‘ceasefire’ as 5,000 Ukrainian troops are trapped; New Zealand debating military help for Iraq against ISIS
Bishop Giovanni Martinelli could well be the last Italian left in Tripoli and he has no intention of leaving, despite repeated death threats. “My faithful are here, I have to stay,” he says.
On February 17, CNN reported that the Charlie Hebdo gunmen texted the Kosher deli gunman an hour before launching their January 7 attack on the satirical newspaper.
Recently, London Mayor Boris Johnson described Jihadists as “porn driven losers” who have “low self-esteem and are unsuccessful with women.”
The saga of which I sing today is the gathering tale of the twain of Odin, Allfather of the Gods, and Holger Danske, the once and future savior of the Danes.
A Saudi cleric argues for geocentrism “at a university lecture in the United Arab Emirates,” because airplanes.
Rashad Hussain, a Muslim American with close ties to the White House, will replace Alberto Fernandez, the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication’s director, according to The Times.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) posted a picture on Twitter confirming that its President, Salam Al-Marayati, is in attendance at the White House’s Countering Violent Extremism Summit, which kicked off on Tuesday
Islamic State terrorists burned forty-five people to death in the ISIS-held town of Al-Baghdadi, a local police chief told the BBC.
More girls and young women have escaped ISIS to tell the horrors they endured at the jihadists’ hands.
The leader of the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah urged the Middle East to unite and join the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.
The new socialist government of Greece is not having much success convincing its European creditors to forget about billions of dollars in debt, and then loan Greece even more money. Bloomberg News reports Commerzbank AG is doubling the odds of a Greek exit from the Eurozone to 50 percent, which sounds like a polite underestimation of the odds, given the sudden and acrimonious end of the latest debt talks.
The government of Italy appears to be taking seriously the threats posed by the Islamic State (ISIS) to its nation. Italian officials said on Monday that they are considering sending 5,000 troops into Libya to combat the country’s burgeoning jihadist presence.
According to an article at the Kurdish outlet Rudaw, Peshmerga militia forces have had to turn back a high number of foreign fighters attempting to join the war on the Islamic State. Repeated attempts to discourage the foreign fighters and request arms aid instead have failed to stop the flow into Iraq.
The Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) established “morality police” reportedly attacked a woman in eastern Syria because her eyes were exposed.
China’s Navy arrived in Greece on Monday amid concerns that the country is considering an exit from the European Union.
ROME, Italy– Rome has dramatically stepped up its security in the wake of last weekend’s slaughter of Christians in Libya and the Islamic State’s overt threat to the city. Outside of Rome’s US embassy on Via Veneto, increased security has been stationed, and machine guns have appeared in the hands of guards. A special security taskforce has been convoked to plan Rome’s response to escalating ISIS threats.
ISIS fighters are “buying their wives kinky underwear,” demanding Viagra to better their performance, and subjecting their wives, concubines, and sex slaves to sadistic sexual practices, according to Syrian doctors forced to treat jihadists in conquered territories.
As Argentine investigators attempt to uncover the mystery behind the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a new wrinkle has appeared in the investigation: the body of an unidentified middle-aged woman, deposited and burnt across the street from Nisman’s apartment.
One is a jihadist movement that seeks global dominance,beheading journalists, throwing gay people off of rooftops and massacring any perceived foe which crosses its path on the way to restoring a grand Islamic state.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry is demanding “the involvement of Palestinian investigators to clarify the circumstances of” the murder of three Muslim Americans in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Ministry denounced Chapel Hill shooter Craig Stephen Hicks as “an American extremist and hateful racist.”
As Cameroon and Niger, Nigeria’s neighbors, promise to aid a coalition military against the jihadist terror group Boko Haram, thousands of civilians gathered in Niamey, the capital of Niger, to demand their government do all within its power to eradicate and destroy Boko Haram.
Graeme Wood’s article, “What ISIS Really Wants,” in the March 2015 issue of The Atlantic is a fantastic summary of how the Islamic State (ISIS) interprets Islam – and, perhaps more importantly, how the rest of the Islamic world looks at ISIS. It does a great deal of damage to President Obama’s preferred narrative about how the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, as well as his characterization of the terror state as “nihilistic.”
Across a wide swath of territory, in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Yemen, the West has been or is at war, or near-war, with the Muslim world, in a failed bid to eradicate a metastasizing Islamist movement of murderous hatred toward Western civilization.
