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.
Zacarias Moussaoui, the “20th hijacker” from the 9/11 terror plot, has been in U.S. custody for the past 13 years under a sentence of life in prison. Last October, he gave testimony from the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, as part of a civil suit filed by the families of 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia.
The atrocities of ISIS have gone almost beyond the power to shock, but it’s still jarring to see so much depravity collected into a single report. The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child speaks of the Islamic State selling young children into slavery, pressing mentally handicapped kids into service as suicide bombers, using them as human shields against American air strikes, and conducting mass executions of children by beheading them, crucifying them, and burying them alive.
National Journal argues Rand Paul’s foreign policy stance will sink him in the 2016 GOP presidential primary.
Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) told Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano that the Obama administration “is no longer trying to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon,” according to reports.
The Turkish prosecutor in Diyarbakir, the symbolic capital of the Kurds, charged Dutch journalist Fréderike Geerdink with “terrorist propaganda.” She faces one to five years in prison if found guilty.
European officials have reportedly relayed a message to Israeli officials about the Obama administration’s plans concerning the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. The U.S. and Iran are reportedly closing in on a deal that would allow the Ayatollah’s regime to keep the vast majority of its centrifuges running, while also allowing for Iran to be in charge of stabilizing its surrounding region.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is calling for his government to draft a blacklist of Venezuelans exiled in the United States calling for Congress to impose further sanctions on his socialist regime for both economic and political crimes, as well as ties to drug trafficking.
A report at Politico says “dozens of House Democrats are privately threatening to skip” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 address, while Vice President Joe Biden has yet to commit to attendance. They might want to rethink their position, as a new Rasmussen poll finds considerable public support for Netanyahu’s speech.
In the wake of the horrifying videotaped immolation of captured Jordanian pilot Mu’ath Kaseasbeh, the Obama Administration suddenly decided to reveal that the United Arab Emirates withdrew from the anti-ISIS coalition almost two months ago, citing fears that their own pilots would be captured by the Islamic State.
The purported deal would offer the U.S. only 20% of what it wants, and would seem to confirm reports from Israeli sources last week that Iran will receive 80% of what it wants. Once, the U.S. had agreed that a bad deal would be worse than none.
Asghar Bukhari, founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK, has denied subjecting British journalist Douglas Murray to a string of homophobic insults from a pseudonymous Twitter account. The account, @eastlondoner786, called Murray a “bum bandit” and “coward gay prik” who “hides behind his
Diosdado Cabello, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and second-in-command to President Nicolás Maduro, proclaimed the victory of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) in Greece and the popularity of the leftist Podemos party in Spain to be victories for “Chavismo,” making appearances “all around the world.”
The King of Jordan reportedly referenced a Clint Eastwood movie in describing how his government would respond to the recent atrocity committed by the Islamic State against fighter pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, in which the Jordanian 1st Lieutenant was placed in a cage and then abruptly set on fire.
Ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being a pedophile a few months before he was poisoned in 2006. He gave Putin the nickname “The Kremlin Pedophile” after he kissed a young boy’s stomach in public.
A man who had reportedly attempted to join the jihad in the Middle East previously has been accused of attacking three French soldiers on Tuesday, lunging at the troops with his knife while they were on guard outside a Jewish Community Center.
Sudan’s foreign minister, a hardcore Islamist with a long history of orchestrating mass atrocities and other crimes against humanity, has been invited to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC on Thursday, February 4.
Fidel Castro is relevant– and alive. This the latest from Cuban state newspaper Granma, which has published a first-person account of a university student’s encounter with the dictator.
The chief of staff of the Russian armed forces reportedly said that Russia is planning to conduct joint military drills with Cuba, North Korea, Brazil, and Vietnam.
(Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday announced plans to increase annual aid to Jordan to $1 billion from $660 million to help it pay for the cost of housing refugees from Iraq and Syria and of fighting Islamic State militants.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) and organised crime are becoming major players in the Australian cigarette business, according to several newspapers. The Irish Independent reports a senior figure in the South Armagh Provisional IRA has been arrested in Spain in
Libya’s parliament has suspended a law banning officials who served under Muammar Gaddafi from holding a position in the country’s current administration.
(Reuters) – A 19-year-old American skier survived 48 hours half-buried in snow in the Swiss Alps before being rescued and taken to hospital where he is recovering, police said on Wednesday.
Analysts are puzzled by ISIS’s burning alive of Jordan’s pilot; Jordan promises revenge against ISIS for killing pilot; Japan’s nationalism surges over ISIS killings of two Japanese hostages
As fighting intensifies in the Ukraine, Pope Francis took advantage of his world pulpit to plead for a ceasefire and a return to dialogue.
A Taiwanese flight with 58 people aboard went sideways, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a river Wednesday shortly after takeoff from the island’s capital of Taipei, killing at least 12 people, local media and officials said.
