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.
The fight against ISIS has taken its share of twists and turns, but one constant in the conflict is America’s collective shock and surprise over the tactics of the terror group. There appears to be endless surprise that a group of individuals could have such religious fervor that they throw homosexuals to their death from rooftops, crucify people who speak out against them, behead their enemies, and, most recently, burned alive a Jordanian pilot trapped in a cage. But no one who is willing to speak truth should be surprised by such heinous acts.
In the recently released, but largely unheralded, National Security Strategy of the United States, the new buzz-word was “strategic patience.” As our unarmed Marines hastily departed Yemen, and ISIS closed in on their fellow devil-dogs in Iraq, the President was more than showing patience: he was making video about taking selfies.
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Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was formally accused Friday of shielding Iranian officials from prosecution over a 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish center, prosecutors said.
The Saudi Arabian government released Mayssa al-Amoudi and Loujain al-Hathloul from jail after 72 days after being imprisoned for driving. Women are not allowed to drive in the country.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is forcing residents in Raqqa, Syria, the capital of their “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq, to donate blood for their injured fighters. In January, Yazidi sex slave girls told the media the militants also forced them to donate blood.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) blasted President Obama’s request for Congress to authorize military force against the Islamic State (ISIS), calling the measure “utterly stupid.”
A poll by the Jerusalem Post reports a large majority of Israelis believe that the Obama administration is interfering with their elections in an effort to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has confirmed that he will attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a special joint session of Congress on March 3, despite the objections of some Jewish leaders.
For centuries, Westerners have been lured by the “mysterious” East. Fortune hunters, explorers, adventurers, businessmen, diplomats, journalists, artists, missionaries, and humanitarian aid workers have all fled the confines of the West for lives of drama and danger.
A group of tribal leaders from Anbar province, Iraq, have finally found help in their fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) through the efforts of former President George W. Bush, who vowed to “do everything I can” to help those attempting to escape ISIS.
California Assemblywoman and United States Navy Veteran Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) faced a backlash this week over a tweet reacting to the death of Kayla Mueller by Islamic State (ISIS) militants.
President Obama wasted nearly a month before launching a rescue mission after British intelligence provided his administration the possible location of American hostages held by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports The Daily Beast.
At a Stanford University cyber-security summit on Friday, President Obama is expected to announce yet another executive order bypassing Congress, this time pertaining to Internet security.
A report by Tim Mak at The Daily Beast has U.S. intelligence officials confirming that there are, indeed, concrete ties between the Islamic State and Nigerian jihadist terror group Boko Haram.
According to Bishop Jacek Pyl, the Vatican does not officially recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and still considers his diocese as part of the Catholic Church in Ukraine.
The latest issue of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group’s Dabiq magazine features a section purportedly showing the abduction of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians.
The Nigerian jihadist terror group Boko Haram has staged what is believed to be its first deadly attack on the nation of Chad, crossing the Nigerian border overnight and killing a number of soldiers. Their passage across Lake Chad from Nigeria follows a deadly female suicide bombing in northeast Borno.
The nation of Uruguay is struggling to properly integrate the six former Guantánamo Bay prisoners they accepted from the United States into society. Two of the men were forced into hotel housing after a heated “political and religious dispute,” while a third has traveled to Argentina to demand that the Southern Cone nation take in more prisoners from Gitmo.
The Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela attacked a group of student protestors with tear gas in San Cristóbal, Táchira, a western regional capital that has become the center of revolt against that nation’s socialist government.
Berlin (AFP) – Seventy years ago Allied bombing laid waste to the historic German city of Dresden, whose post-war image as a symbol of peace has been dented recently by anti-Islamic protests.
On February 6, six of the foremost authorities on Cold War nuclear and technological espionage met at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. to talk about how historians have treated the Rosenberg spy case and discussed how the profession has been taken over by the hard left.
Every now and then, a story comes along that captures everything wrong with modern America. The Army’s decision to pay for hormone treatments so that convicted national-security leaker Bradley Manning can transform into Chelsea Manning while doing time in Leavenworth is such a story.
On Wednesday, two female suicide bombers attacked the Nigerien border town of Diffa and bands of jihadists conducted raids, as Boko Haram continues to extend its rampage outside of Nigeria into neighboring countries. In Niger, there is growing concern over the spread of Islamic extremism, resulting in violent attacks, as well as a growing anti-Christian sentiment.
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda-linked fighters seized a large army base in a dawn attack in southern Yemen on Thursday, militants and residents said, hours after the United Nations warned that the country was on the brink of civil war.
